Where trust begins.
Sanctity builds human-judgment infrastructure: trustworthy AI that keeps people in command of the decisions that matter.
I am Manj Chenna. I trained as an engineer, I have followed AI since high school, and I have lived and worked in ten countries across four continents. That mix, technology, finance, culture, and how people actually behave, is how I read AI: not as magic, not as a threat, but as a set of choices someone is making on everyone's behalf.
Years in the making.
For years I built and led transformations where software started making the calls that touched real people. One pattern would not leave me: a machine decides, a person is affected, and no one in the room can say who chose the rule it followed, or how to overrule it.
I did not set out to make AI more powerful. I set out to make sure a human could still be found standing behind it. I committed to this in 2019, and in 2022 I started Sanctity, bootstrapped by choice, from Amsterdam, inside the EU AI Act, the world's first hard law on this technology, while most of the field still theorizes from San Francisco. I am not writing about AI governance. I am shipping under it.
Two layers. One principle.
Sanctity is human-judgment infrastructure, in two layers. A values layer, where the public, everyone equal, helps decide the values AI should hold. And HumanChain, where an AI agent's hardest calls reach a qualified, accountable human. The principle under both is simple: AI does the heavy lifting, humans pass the judgment.
See the full thesis ›Sanctity is a heavy word for a company, and I mean it as a constraint, not a vibe. There are lines we do not cross even when crossing them is faster or more profitable: we do not ship a decision a person cannot refuse, and we will not remove the human-override switch, for any contract. A company is defined as much by its no as its yes.