Concepts

The person ratifies; the AI drafts. Constitute is a context-engineering product, not a fine-tuning one: your Constitution is retrieved into whatever model you bring, at the moment it drafts.

Term	Meaning
Draft	Something the AI wrote that awaits your decision.
Ratify	Approve a draft as written. It enters the publishing queue.
Veto	Reject a draft, ideally with a reason.
Edit	Rewrite a draft before ratifying it.
Amendment	A proposed change to the Constitution, generated from a reasoned veto, an edit or a Session answer.
Accept / Reject	The explicit human act that writes, or declines to write, an amendment into your corpus. Accepting applies it, versioned and reversible.
Article	One entry in the Source Corpus (a position, voice rule, boundary, workflow, story or writing sample), numbered ART-n.
Source Corpus	The Notion database of all your Articles.
Constitution	The accepted, active whole: the Preamble plus every active Article.
Preamble	A one-page summary of who you are, drafted at the end of the Convention and ratified by you.
Constitutional Convention	The onboarding interview: 50 questions in five sections.
Session	The weekly check-in: about five questions on stale, predicted or contested Articles.
Confirm / Sharpen / Contest	The verdicts on a Session question. Contest is deliberately not the same word as veto.
The Record	The append-only log of every decision.
Delegate	Any AI agent or LLM acting through Constitute's API or MCP.

Draft statuses

Draft, Ratified, Queued, Posted, Vetoed. Nothing reaches a publishing engine without passing through Ratified.

Three guarantees

Nothing publishes without your ratification.
Your Constitution changes only through an explicit act of yours: a Convention answer you confirmed, a Session verdict, an accepted amendment, or an edit in Notion. Amendments are never auto-applied.
Constitute runs no generative model on its servers. The only model it calls is an embedding model for search.