Every governance platform protects the company. Archimedes Lever protects the director. Personal. Portable. Permanent.
The platform
Board minutes record collective decisions. They were never designed to record each director's personal satisfaction of the duty of reasonable care, skill and diligence — whether under Companies Act 2006 Section 174 in the UK, the Caremark standard in the US, ASIC v Healey (Centro) in Australia, or ADGM director duty obligations across the Middle East. Only one evidential question is currently answered.
The gap
Company-controlled systems are revoked the moment you leave. Your liability does not resign with you. A regulatory investigation two years after your departure leaves you with no independent access to the records that would answer it.
The insurance problem
AIG, WR Berkley, and Chubb have filed Absolute AI Exclusions on Side A D&O policies — the personal coverage protecting individual directors, not the company. Many directors do not yet know their policy no longer covers it.
The legal standard
In law, the duty of care is individual. No board decision, management assurance, or collective governance process discharges it on your behalf. The question a regulator or court will ask is not what the board decided — it is what this director personally did to satisfy themselves.
Most governance systems deliver symbolic protection — the appearance of oversight. Archimedes Lever delivers evidential protection: what a named individual can still prove, later, using records that survive.
Free assessment tool
A free personal liability assessment for executive directors and NEDs. Ten questions. Under three minutes. Understand your specific exposure by board position, committee role, and AI governance activity across four jurisdictions.
The assessment maps your board positions and committee roles to specific Annex III EU AI Act exposure categories, identifies documentation gaps in your personal evidence position, and assesses your D&O insurance coverage status.
The result is a personalised liability exposure profile — the starting point for every conversation about personal governance protection.
Carbon border compliance
UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism compliance for importers of steel, cement, aluminium, hydrogen, fertilisers, and iron. HMRC enforcement begins January 2027.
CBAM liability calculation
Precise calculation of your CBAM liability based on import volumes, embedded carbon content, and applicable commodity codes under the UK CBAM framework.
Carbon Price Relief deductions
Identifies and applies Carbon Price Relief deductions for carbon pricing already paid in the country of origin, reducing your net CBAM liability.
HMRC-ready documentation
Prepares the documentation required for HMRC submission ahead of the January 2027 enforcement deadline. Evidence-first approach to compliance.
HMRC enforcement deadline
January 2027
UK importers of covered commodities must be registered and compliant. CBAM Proof was one of a small number of firms to submit formal evidence to HMRC during the consultation period.
Covered commodities: steel, cement, aluminium, hydrogen, fertilisers, and iron. If you import any of these from outside the UK, your CBAM liability calculation starts here.
Calculate your CBAM liability →Founder
Jason Gordon is the founder of Archimedes Lever, a Director Intelligence as a Service platform building personal governance protection for corporate directors facing individual liability under the EU AI Act and Companies Act 2006 Section 174 in the UK, the Caremark standard in the US, ASIC v Healey (Centro) in Australia, and ADGM director duty obligations across the Middle East.
With thirty years in London publishing and editorial — including seven years as Managing Editor of Ethical Boardroom, the award-winning global corporate governance magazine — Jason brings editorial discipline to regulatory complexity.
Archimedes Lever is the first platform built from the director's personal liability position outward. Every existing governance tool is built for companies. Archimedes Lever is built for the individual director whose personal liability does not resign with them when they leave a board.
Alongside Archimedes Lever, Jason founded CBAM Proof — a UK carbon border compliance platform for importers of steel, cement, aluminium, hydrogen, fertilisers and iron facing HMRC enforcement from January 2027. Both platforms are built and operated by Jason as a solopreneur.