Programs
What the Foundation is building
Everything the Foundation builds and publishes will be free to use. Nothing it publishes will require membership, payment, or a commercial relationship of any kind.
Where things stand
The Foundation was incorporated in April 2026 and seated its founding Board in July. Its work right now is telling the industry it exists and building the community that will shape everything else. The programs below describe what the Foundation is organized to do, not a catalog of services running today. Each one carries its current status, and this page will be updated as programs launch.
Open-source software In design
The Foundation's flagship program will be a production-grade accounts receivable and collections platform that any organization can download, run, modify, and redistribute without a vendor relationship, a license fee, or permission from anyone. The software comprises two layers: the Wax application framework, a domain-agnostic foundation for auditable business applications, and the HiveAR accounts receivable platform built on it.
The platform is in its initial architecture and design phase, and no source has been published yet. It will be released under the Apache License, Version 2.0, with source code published publicly on the GitHub organization and outside contributions accepted under the Developer Certificate of Origin. Compliance is a design principle rather than an add-on: tamper-evident audit trails, fine-grained access controls, and configurable compliance workflows are core architectural commitments.
The Foundation is not a software vendor. It will steward the platform on behalf of the industry and the public, and it will never charge for it.
Open knowledge Planned
The Foundation will publish open educational content, including guides, articles, white papers, and recorded webinars, addressing operational and compliance topics in accounts receivable. A library of plain-language compliance resources will cover the FDCPA, the FCRA, Regulation F, and key state-level consumer protection statutes, written to be accessible to practitioners who may lack dedicated legal or compliance staff.
Compliance and regulatory resources published by the Foundation are educational reference materials only. They describe general regulatory frameworks and do not constitute legal advice, create an attorney-client relationship, or address the specific circumstances of any organization. Retain qualified legal counsel for guidance specific to your operations.
Shared standards Planned
The Foundation will develop shared technical and operational standards for the industry, including integration standards and published naming conventions for community contributions. Standards will be developed in the open, with community input, and published freely so any vendor or agency can implement them.
Training Planned
The Foundation will deliver training through free webinars and virtual workshops open to the entire community, with recordings archived for asynchronous viewing. As the platform matures, a formal certification and training program will follow for the vendors and professionals who work with it.
Certification examinations, courses, and renewals may carry fees, which support the Foundation's programs. Fees and standards will be uniform across applicants, and no applicant will receive preferential treatment based on a relationship to the Foundation, its leadership, or its directors. Certification will never gate the software: the platform is open source, and anyone may run, modify, and build on it without certification of any kind.
Neutral community Open now
The Foundation maintains a peer community, hosted on Discord, that is open to every practitioner in the industry: compliance officers, developers, operations managers, collectors, agency owners, attorneys, consumer advocates, academics, and regulators. Commercial solicitation is prohibited, there are no sponsored channels, and no one can buy visibility.
This is where the Foundation's work starts. The community is the incubator from which the other programs emerge, and the direction those programs take will be set by the practitioners who participate. Joining now means helping decide what gets built first.