The founders

Built by many hands. Yours can be one of them.

NAP is a draft framework — a standard in formation that no one has adopted yet. The people who examine it, challenge it, and improve it are its founders — and they're named for it. This is how a framework earns the trust to become real.

How recognition works

Three ways to be a founder.

Founding Signatory

You've added your name in support of the framework and its mission. The public record of who stood here at the beginning.

Contributor

You brought an idea that was reviewed and accepted into the framework. Your name appears on the principle you shaped.

Architect

You made a major, sustained contribution to the canon. Reserved for the few who help build whole sections of the framework.

Signatories appear on the wall when they sign; we remove anything that isn't a real person. No contribution has been accepted yet, so no one holds the Contributor or Architect tier today.

The founding wall

It begins here.

Michael Andrew Feller Jones, founder. The next names are yours and your colleagues'.

Add your name.

Stand on the record as a founding signatory now, or bring an idea through the guide to join as a contributor.

Or bring an idea to the guide →