About¶

Author¶

Nikhil Singhal¶

CTO | VP Engineering | AI Practitioner & Governance Strategist

25+ years of engineering leadership at Microsoft, T-Mobile, AT&T, Expedia Group, and Hitachi Consulting. Based in Seattle, WA.

The HIP Charter emerged from a year of building with AI as a full partner across eight products, thousands of commits, and a daily practice that demanded a better framework for describing how human and AI intelligence actually work together. The charter is not theoretical. It was discovered through the work.

Nikhil is also the founder of AI Trust Commons, an open-source initiative building the cross-provider governance layer for AI agents. He submitted a public comment to NIST on AI agent governance and is writing a book, From Instinct to Intent™, on the journey from instinct to deliberate design in human-AI interaction.

LinkedIn GitHub AI Trust Commons Email

Published Work¶

ORCID: 0009-0003-5449-6830

From Instinct to Intent™ Series¶

Article	Channel	DOI
Discovering Intent	Blog · Medium	10.5281/zenodo.18917473
Languages Designed for Humans	Blog · Medium	10.5281/zenodo.19005877
Engine vs Steering Wheel	Blog · Medium	10.5281/zenodo.19025149

NIST Submission¶

Title	Channel	DOI
Public Comment on AI Agent Governance	regulations.gov	10.5281/zenodo.18903117

Trademark¶

From Instinct to Intent™ — USPTO Serial 99690685 (3 classes, filed March 2026)

License¶

The HIP Charter is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to share and adapt this work for any purpose, including commercial, as long as you provide attribution.