Regis Chapman
Summary
I follow money through complex systems and produce evidence-grade findings: entities resolved, flows traced, patterns surfaced from fused public data, and the whole thing documented to a standard a decision-maker can act on without it being hearsay. I trained the craft in public-goods funding. At Octant Labs I evaluated nearly 800 grant applications across seven rounds and served as the quality gate ahead of allocation, keeping capture and undisclosed conflicts out of funded pools. In the course of that work I detected a multi-year conflict-of-interest network spanning funding rounds, by fusing grant histories, on-chain wallet traces, forum records, and registry data, and documented it for leadership to act on.
The standards I author exist because intelligence is only as good as its intake: WALKRI specifies what makes a data field a real measurement, CRAFT specifies what an evaluation chain must satisfy before its records deserve trust, ORE specifies what a chain is allowed to assume about the sources feeding it, and CROSS holds entities to one canonical record each. They are the published form of how I work: precision at ingestion, resolution before inference, and findings built to be checked. Before this, three decades of systems and network architecture, and eight years running infrastructure inside a First Nations government.
Selected Work
Verification
I treat any output, including a model’s, as a claim to be checked rather than an answer to be trusted: evaluation against criteria stated before the material is seen, findings that cite and quote the evidence they rest on, and every step recorded so a second reader can walk it without taking my word for anything. Where a finding depends on an AI system reading the source material, that reading gets checked the same way an analyst’s would. The dossier is only as strong as its weakest unverified step, so every step carries its verification with it.
Skills
Experience
- Served as the quality and integrity gate ahead of capital allocation across seven consecutive funding rounds (more than 1,400 ETH allocated): evaluated and curated every candidate pool that went forward, keeping capture and undisclosed conflicts out.
- Detected and documented a multi-year conflict-of-interest network spanning multiple funding rounds, fusing grant histories, on-chain deployer-wallet traces, forum records, and registry data into an evidence-grade briefing leadership could act on.
- Evaluated nearly 800 grant applications individually, more than 450 in a single round; ran API sweeps (KarmaGAP) so every evaluation carried a complete, source-verified accountability picture for its project.
- Took a mandated, tool-generated candidate set and built a 12-step evaluation framework that produced the funded list, adopted directly by management.
- Built the operational backbone the analysis ran on: dashboards, evaluation pipelines, and grantee tracking; designed rounds and intake instruments so the data arrived clean enough to reason over.
- Authored the public standards beneath the work (CRAFT, ORE, WALKRI, CROSS, GRAIN): what a trustworthy record requires, stated before the records exist.
- Co-founded, led, and responsibly wound down a conflict-resolution DAO: the full founder lifecycle, from Token Engineering Commons working group (2019) through independence (2021) to closure (2025).
- Built conflict-resolution frameworks adopted by 15+ web3 communities, with a 90% dispute-resolution rate; trained 120+ members across 8 cohorts and facilitated workshops for 200+ people. High-stakes disputes are where integrity work either holds or does not.
- Advised DAOs on coordination and organizational development; authored original frameworks, including The Virtuous Cycles and a decolonization framework.
Earlier
- Senior IT System Administrator (titled Information Technology Technician), Cowichan Tribes, a First Nations government (Nov 2016 to Nov 2024): infrastructure for 500+ users; server, virtualization (VMware/ESXi), networking, and VoIP.
- Senior Ecommerce Consultant, Grow Mushrooms Canada (Nov 2019 to Jan 2025): freelance, part-time alongside the full-time roles above; system administration, site architecture, and marketing automation for an ecommerce business.
- Non-Windows DevOps Lab Engineer, Microsoft (contract, 2011 to 2014), and System Architect, UniversalMac (2014).
- IT Director, Graphic and Web Designer, and Head Yoga Teacher, Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm (2005 to 2008); Phone Support Engineer, Apple (2002 to 2005) and Sun Microsystems (1998 to 2000); earlier technical roles 1994 to 1996.
- Founder and Head Instructor, Silent Motion Yoga (Mar 2009 to Aug 2024).
Education & Certifications
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm (2005)
Links
This page carries my public contact details. For a copy with full contact information, get in touch through the site.