An independent company.

One licence in, one registry out. Nothing else ties the two together.

Even Steven licenses the corpus of individually attributed skill recordings to Tacit Source. Tacit Source converts that corpus into a registry that can be licensed onward — to a maker, a kit company or a fleet owner. The licence between the two companies is, in the owner's own words recorded at the time of the ruling, "the most important commercial document in the group," and it is not yet drafted.

The operator's own agreement, always, is with Even Steven. Tacit Source has no direct relationship with a hand, and this site does not solicit one.

What this page will not pretend is settled.

• Where the patents that protect the registry and the release mechanism will sit — Tacit Source, Steady Eddie, both, or elsewhere.
• Whether the operating corpus Tacit Source builds is a selection (one named operator's work, chosen at runtime) or a blend (many operators trained into one behaviour). Only the first keeps every promise Even Steven makes to a hand true.
• The corpus licence between Even Steven and Tacit Source itself.
• Tacit Source's own name — registered as a domain, used as a trade name and then re-ruled as its own company on the same day, 2026-09-11, and not yet cleared against a similarly-named Canadian competitor.