Developers & Domain Experts

Build the checks Cohumera runs

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Cohumera is the first World‑Aligned Product Creation Engine — a system that turns an idea into a structured, aligned, corrected Product Blueprint with reasoning shown inline.

Under the hood, Cohumera runs a set of Domain Skills: modular checks that evaluate one dimension of real‑world alignment. The MVP ships with six core domains. You can build more.

This page explains how Cohumera works for developers and domain experts, and how you can contribute new checks through our open Domain Skill Contract.

Why build a domain?

Every product touches people, places, and systems.
Every domain captures one of those realities.

If you have expertise in:

  • civic trust
  • sustainability
  • environmental science
  • regenerative economics
  • financial modeling
  • accessibility
  • regional policy
  • systems thinking

…you can encode that expertise into a domain that founders everywhere can use.

Your work becomes part of the engine.

How Cohumera uses your domain

When a founder submits an idea:

  1. Cohumera generates a structured Product Blueprint.
  2. Each domain evaluates the blueprint independently.
  3. Findings, misalignments, severity, confidence, and evidence gaps are returned.
  4. The Fix Engine applies corrections and logs the rationale.
  5. Everything appears in the Governance Blueprint Viewer — one integrated surface.

Your domain becomes part of this pipeline.
Your reasoning appears inline, in plain language.

The Domain Skill Contract

Every domain must implement a simple, open, public contract.

Required fields

  • domain_name — canonical identifier
  • domain_version — semantic version
  • domain_category — core, domain_pack, or regional_pack
  • domain_region — optional
  • domain_strictness_range — supported strictness levels
  • domain_dependencies — conceptual dependencies
  • domain_description — what the domain evaluates
  • public_label — founder‑facing label
  • public_summary — short description
  • certification_tier — core, verified, or community

Required outputs

  • findings
  • misalignments
  • severity (1–4)
  • confidence (0.0–1.0)
  • evidence_gaps
  • rationale_internal
  • rationale_public (required)
  • domain_metadata

The full public contract is available here:

Certification tiers

Cohumera supports three contribution tiers.

Core

Maintained by the Cohumera founding team.

Verified

Reviewed and attributed to named experts or institutions.

Community

Open submissions from contributors.
Sandbox‑tested against reference blueprints.

Every tier is clearly labeled wherever findings appear.

How to contribute

If you want to build a domain:

  1. Read the Domain Skill Contract.
  2. Draft your domain metadata.
  3. Define your evaluation criteria.
  4. Write your severity and confidence models.
  5. Provide at least one worked example.
  6. Submit your domain for sandbox testing.

Submissions begin at Community tier.
Verified status is earned through demonstrated accuracy.

Who this is for

  • Developers building new checks
  • Domain experts encoding real‑world knowledge
  • Researchers modeling governance, environmental, or financial systems
  • Contributors who want to shape Cohumera’s alignment layer
  • Institutions exploring domain packs or regional packs

If you want to help build the category, this is where you start.

Cohumera is built in the open.

If you want to help shape the checks Cohumera runs, we’d like to hear from you, tell us what you’d like to build or advise on.

We’ll follow up personally.