The last human layer of artificial intelligence
While the world races to remove humans from the loop, we're building the guild of engineers who keep them in. Not as a limitation. As an architecture.
72%
Employers can't find AI talent
ManpowerGroup 2026
3.2:1
AI demand vs. supply ratio
World Economic Forum 2024
$320B
Paid to App Store devs since 2008
Apple, cumulative
Aug '26
EU AI Act enforcement deadline
European Commission
The thesis
In 2008, Apple didn't build the apps. Apple built the platform, the standards, and the distribution. 500 developers wrote the rest. One billion downloads in nine months. We're doing the same for AI governance.
Every foundation model company is building intelligence. Nobody is building the professional infrastructure for the humans who govern it in production, in regulated sectors, with real accountability.
HIKARI GUILD is the first professional order of AI governance engineers. A distributed R&D lab where independent builders create, test, and deploy governance agents on a certified platform, for the industries where errors are not tolerated: finance, insurance, healthcare, industry.
You don't work for us. You build on us. You ship agents. You earn revenue. You write the rules of a discipline that doesn't exist yet.
This is not a community. This is not a marketplace. This is a co-ownership structure for the people who will define how artificial intelligence operates under human authority, worldwide.
Franck Ohrel
CEO, HIKARI BLUE
Rémi
Co-founder, HIKARI BLUE
Xavier
Co-founder, HIKARI BLUE
Why this. Why now.
Four forces converging on the same window
The best opportunities are structural, not accidental. This one has a regulatory deadline.
The governance vacuum
63% of companies using generative AI have zero governance structures in place. Every regulated-sector CEO knows they need guardrails. Nobody is building them at production grade.
EU AI Act, August 2026
The first comprehensive AI regulation in history takes effect in months. Compliance is not optional. Fines reach 7% of global revenue. Every enterprise in finance, health, and industry needs certified solutions. Now.
The talent polarization
The market has a surplus of junior generalists and a critical shortage of senior engineers who can operate AI in production. AI demand exceeds supply 3.2 to 1 globally. The best builders are independent, distributed, looking for meaningful infrastructure.
The value migration
Value is migrating from foundation models to integration, alignment, and governance layers. OpenAI builds the engine. Google builds the engine. The governance layer that makes it deployable in a hospital or a bank? That's open territory.
Three roles. One standard.
Choose how you build
Every member ships. Every contribution is measured. The Guild opens on proof, not on intention.
Builder
Independent engineer. You build governance agents on the HIKARI SDK. You ship to regulated-sector clients through the platform. You own what you create.
- Revenue share on every client deployment
- Early access to SDK and platform features
- Equity vesting (4-year, 12-month cliff)
- "Hikari Blue Verified" certification
- Transatlantic deal flow EU + US
Studio
You lead a team or a vertical. You architect agent suites for entire sectors: DORA compliance, pharmacovigilance, ESG scoring. Complex, multi-agent systems.
- Enhanced revenue share + co-branding
- Quarterly strategy council with CEO
- Named vertical ownership
- Roadmap influence via quarterly vote
- Priority on enterprise deal flow
Advisor
Researcher. Domain expert. You benchmark, evaluate, stress-test. You produce the intelligence that makes the platform smarter. Finance, health, regulation, security.
- Flat fee per certified review
- Co-authorship on Pioneer Log
- Published benchmarks under your name
- Early feature access
- Community visibility and speaking track
The economics
Build your business. Not ours.
Transparent revenue share. No ambiguity. No hidden terms. You build, you ship, you earn.
Revenue share (Y1)
Builder
60% to you
Studio
65% to you
Advisor
Flat fee / review
Revenue share (Y2+)
Builder
70% to you
Studio
75% to you
Advisor
Flat fee + bonus
Equity options
Builder
0.05 – 0.5%
Studio
0.1 – 1%
Advisor
Advisory shares
Finder's fee
Builder
5% first contract
Studio
5% first contract
Advisor
5% first contract
Platform access
Builder
SDK + API + sandbox
Studio
SDK + API + priority
Advisor
Evaluation tools
The people we want
This is the profile. Is it you?
We don't select on resumes. We select on three traits that can't be taught.
“I built something at my day job that works. But I know it could be a product. I need a platform with distribution, compliance, and clients I can't reach alone. I want to ship, not pitch.”
The builder who can't stop building
Senior engineer — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, or your garage. The address doesn't matter. The output does.
“I've spent 15 years in banking regulation. I see exactly where AI is going to break things in ways the model companies don't understand. I want to build the guardrails before the crash.”
The domain expert who sees what's coming
Compliance, risk, pharma, insurance. The people who know where the bodies are buried, and where AI will create new ones.
“I want to own a piece of what I build. Not equity in a startup I don't control. A revenue stream on agents I create, certified by a platform I trust, deployed to clients I couldn't reach alone.”
The entrepreneur who thinks in systems
CTO solo, indie hacker, fractional. Someone who sees how their agent connects to three others in the catalog. Builder, not freelancer.
The roadmap
From founding cohort to global guild
We're building in public. Every milestone is a commitment.
Now — Summer 2026
Founding Builders: 15 seats
SDK beta. Five reference agents built in-house. Handpicked cohort of 15 builders, EU and US, with verifiable expertise. Private access. Direct line to the CEO.
Q4 2026 — Q1 2027
Marketplace launch
First client deployments with third-party agents. Revenue share activated. Certification pipeline in production. Pioneer Log goes public.
2027
Open Guild
Public certification. Geographic pods (EU, US, APAC). 75 to 150 active members. Quarterly Council formalized. Vertical specialization tracks: Finance, Healthcare, Industry.
2028+
The standard
HIKARI GUILD certification becomes the professional reference for AI governance engineering, the way AWS certifications became the cloud reference. Except this one has revenue attached.
The deal
What you get. What we ask.
What you get
- Distribution you can't buy alone: certified access to regulated-sector enterprise clients in EU and US.
- Compliance by design: every agent you build on the SDK is EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 ready. You code features, we handle the legal infrastructure.
- Revenue you own: 60 to 75% of every deployment. Recurring. Traceable. Yours.
- Equity that vests on contribution, not on time spent in meetings.
- A line on your professional record that says: I was a Founding Builder of the first AI governance guild in the world.
What we ask
- Ship. At least one governance agent or certified contribution per quarter. No passengers.
- Share. What you learn on the ground goes back to the Guild. The circle feeds itself.
- Think in systems. See how your work connects to the catalog. Propose integrations. Build on others' work. Let others build on yours.
- Operate with integrity. Confidentiality charter. Conflict-of-interest transparency. No shortcuts on compliance.
- Contribute more than you consume. This is a guild, not a Slack channel.
HIKARI GUILD is an initiative of HIKARI BLUE — United4 LLC, Austin, TX.
Intelligence, engineered forward.