Greywell Institute
How you are kept safe

The House Officer proposes.
The code decides.

An AI administers the day. It does not get to decide how far anything goes. Each limit below is enforced by the system itself — not by instructions the House Officer is asked to follow, and not by its judgement in the moment.

Only you can raise a flag
The House Officer cannot raise, lower or clear a safety flag, and cannot stop the Governor being told. Raising one is never rate-limited, however often you do it.
A Red flag stops consequences
While it holds, no infraction can be recorded and the daily musters stop being chased. That is a check inside the system, not an instruction to the AI — it holds even if the House Officer ignores everything else it was told.
Relief is a fixed menu
Four options, up to two at once, written in advance and checked by the server. Nothing is improvised for you, and nothing is invented on the spot.
Penalties are calculated
Escalation thresholds, penalty length and Term length come from fixed numbers. The House Officer reports what happened and how serious it was; how many days that costs is computed, not chosen.
The cooldown is a clock
A Red flag opens a cooldown that ends on a timestamp, closed out by a scheduled job. Nobody can talk it into lasting longer — and you can end it early yourself.
Letters fail closed
Correspondence between you and a partner is screened in both directions. If screening is unavailable for any reason at all, the letter is held rather than passed along.

What is instant, and what is not. Raising a Red flag, ending a cooldown early, clearing a Yellow flag and filing a welfare report all take effect the moment you tap them — no approval, no conversation, no explaining yourself. Ending a Term early is different: that is a request the Governor reviews. The asymmetry is deliberate. A structure you can walk out of the moment it gets uncomfortable is not a structure — and the machinery above is how difficulty is kept from becoming harm.

Both flag levels, and exactly what each one changes, are set out on The Term.

The Governor

A role,
not a personality.

You are told throughout this site that a Governor reviews, approves and closes. It is fair to want to know what that means, and what holds it in place. The honest answer is that the role is defined by what it is obliged to do — not by who happens to hold it.

Not in your day
The House Officer administers the daily standard. The Governor decides only what should not be decided casually: admission, extension, closure, and anything escalated. Consulted when it matters, not consulted constantly.
Every decision is written down
Not offered as a promise — it is how the system is built. There is no path through the Governor's dashboard that leaves no record of who decided what, and when.
The serious ones take effort
Suspending, exiting, restarting or archiving a Term each require the word typed out in full before they will run. Deliberate friction, so that nothing heavy happens quickly or in a bad mood.
The limits apply here too
A Red flag cannot be cleared without a written reason. The same constraint the House Officer works under points at the Governor as well — nobody gets to wave something away silently.
Capacity is capped
The number of Governor-assigned Terms running at once is limited in the system, and when it is full, admission is refused rather than granted thinly. Attention that is promised to everyone is owed to no one.
Authority stops at the boundary
Greywell is a structure for adults, not clinical care, urgent support, or legal or financial advice. The Governor holds programme authority and nothing beyond it.

Why there is no name on this page. Because the role should not depend on it. A Term administered well does not require you to like, admire, or know the person administering it — it requires the standard to be applied the same way on the day they are tired as on the day they are not. That is what the written record and the fixed limits are for. If the role changed hands tomorrow, everything above would still be true, and that is the point of building it this way.

What the Governor does day to day is set out on The Term, and how a Term is formally closed on Closure.

Frequently asked

Questions before
you apply.

Not a subscription. A self-governed Term is $90 for sixty days or $120 for ninety. A Governor-assigned Term — where a person reviews your week, holds your welfare and decides what moves — is $350 or $500. That is $1.50 a day, or $5.83. DNS accountability and partner access are separate optional additions; the most anyone pays is $608, with one partner role. Nothing renews. Full breakdown on Fees.
No. The web application at /apply/ is the only way to start intake. Telegram is a contact-route choice made inside that form, for receiving messages after admission.
No. A remote adult accountability structure — reporting, written standards, evidence, review. No clinical care, legal advice, or physical contact.
The Governor closes it to one of four formal outcomes. From there the Term simply ends — or, only once already at the Term's outer day limit, you can petition to extend further. Full detail on Closure.
Governor-assigned Terms are limited by real weekly-oversight capacity — a small number of concurrent Terms. The waitlist records interest for when intake expands.
Yes, if nominated by the applicant, separately consented, and approved by the Governor. Not required for admission. Your partner needs no particular app — when invited they choose how Greywell reaches them, by email, by Telegram, or by a passphrase and no contact details at all. Full detail on Partner Involvement, or send them the plain overview.