h3art.ai
About Us

Diverse in background and perspectives.
The mission unites us.

We are the authoring team of The Harness Is the Contract — a 2026 research paper from the Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies at Flinders University. Formed through a call-out at Australi.ai, we are a community of practice within a larger community of interest about sovereign AI.

Who We Are

Diverse, technical, and grounded in social equity

We are a diverse team of researchers and professionals committed to making the digital world — and the AI products we use within it — more inclusive, secure, sovereign, and of benefit to all humans.

Our skills span AI offensive security, governance, software engineering, cloud security, security architecture, and entrepreneurship. We hold deep, valued experience working on national and international scale systems.

We take a social equity lens to all the work we do because we look at the world from divergent perspectives. Sometimes we disagree — we all have wildly different lived experiences — but what unites us is our passion to build, implement, and secure AI systems.

If you're thinking about data sovereignty, bias minimisation, and building AI solutions with data that is representative of a multitude of human identities, you've come to the right place.

“The model is the beginning of an AI solution — but the harness is where the controls live. That's where our experience lies and our team's services are focused.”

Perspectives we bring

IntersectionalQueerFeministDisability-inclusiveMaleHeterosexualIndigenous

Our origin

Formed as a research collective from a call-out at Australi.ai, we are a community of practice within a larger community of interest in sovereign AI. Our foundational research was published at the Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies at Flinders University.

Our People

The team behind the harness

Six practitioners. Wildly different backgrounds. One shared mission.

Brian Hill

Digital Strategist & Cloud Expert

Our digital strategist, health expert and cloud guru all rolled into one.

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Galina Romantsova

Data, AI & Secure Architecture Lead

Our data, AI and secure architecture lead.

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Corch

Cybersecurity Consultant

Our resident cybersecurity consultant, privacy advocate, and problem solver.

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Dr. Brigitte Lewis

Socio-Technical Inclusion Specialist

Our sociologist turned ethical hacker with a penchant for exploring socio-technical inclusion.

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Ben Kereopa-Yorke

AI Security Researcher & Advisor

Our AI security researcher and advisor whose foundational research launched H3art.

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Laura

Humanist & Software Engineering Advisor

Our humanist and software engineering advisor.

About the Name

What's in a name?

Curious about the origins of our name? Here's a quick explainer — it's a composite of the following elements:

Heart

Human-centred AI, empathy, equity — a core focus for us to build with heart.

Art

Craft, design thinking, the art of security, honouring and respecting human creativity.

H3

A nod to the origin story of the H3: Harmless Harness Heroes author collective and leet.

.ai

The domain, the discipline, our area of focus.

Research

Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies

Our foundational research paper, The Harness Is the Contract: Architectural Sovereignty for Regulated AI After Robodebt, was published in 2026 through the Jeff Bleich Centre at Flinders University, South Australia.

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