Nicholas Templeman

Founder & Executive Director · CSOAI Ltd · UK Companies House #16939677

Nicholas Templeman is the founder and Executive Director of CSOAI Ltd, an independent measurement body for AI compliance. CSOAI does not sell certification — it measures and signs evidence: 30 governance frameworks crosswalked (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, UK GDPR & DPA 2018, NIS2, DORA, the Cyber Resilience Act and more) anchored to 417 statutory provisions across the EU, UK and US, with every result Ed25519-signed and publicly verifiable offline.

Previously he founded and scaled businesses spanning construction logistics, waste management, agriculture, and technology — the operating base of the "AI-enabled physical economy" that CSOAI governs.

What he built (all verifiable)

Asset	Where
CSOAI Ltd — independent measurement body	UK Companies House #16939677
Open-source compliance tooling (~26 packages on PyPI)	PyPI · CSOAI-ORG on GitHub
GovBench — open governance benchmark	csoai.org/govbench
C2PA content-provenance membership	C2PA
Open-source contributor, NVIDIA projects	GitHub
Signed, verifiable evidence (Ed25519)	csoai.org/audit

A note on identity — two people, one name

Nicholas Templeman (this page) is the founder of CSOAI Ltd, based in the United Kingdom.

He is not Nicholas Templeman, the independent shoemaker based in Vancouver, Canada (online as shoes by noono; personal site nicholastempleman.com). The two are unrelated; any resemblance is only one of (shared) name.

Positioning & independence

CSOAI Ltd is an independent UK company. It is a member of C2PA and a contributor to open-source ecosystems. It is not a notified body and issues measurements and attestations — never certificates of conformity. UNMEASURED is reported, never hidden.

Contact: [email protected] · Identification: CSOAI Ltd, UK Companies House #16939677.