What it is
The Heartbeat Framework is a framework for putting safety at the centre of deployment, and for keeping advanced AI out of the environments it would make worse. It was written by a registered mental health nurse from sixteen years of clinical practice, for the people who run 24-hour care.
Why: the deployment risk equation
SAFETY = CAPABILITY × CULTURE
Deployment risk is capability multiplied by culture. Regulation assesses the first term. This estate instruments the second.
A capable system does not fix the team it joins; whatever a machine integrates into, it amplifies. Put an advanced system into a negative environment and it scales what is already wrong. So the gate comes before the deployment: check the culture, get the human team in order, and only then let the machine in.
Why it holds
- ClinicalIt starts where care happens, not in a laboratory, and is written by someone who answers for it by name.
- GatekeepingThe Instrument Deck runs in the order a deployment meets it, and the first stage is the gate.
- OpenEvery record is open access under CC BY 4.0. Anyone may copy and adapt it; every copy passed on must credit the source. Copies spread the record; they do not replace it.
Check it yourself
The record of the estate lives on Zenodo; this site is an index to it. Four places to start:
Corrections, field returns and null results are welcome through the contact page. They are read and answered by the author.