Quantum Technology Governance: The Daiki Quantum Governance Recipe and the World's First QT-QMS

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Palo Alto, CA, August 8, 2025—Daiki, the AI and quantum governance company co-founded by Mauritz Kop, has published The Daiki Quantum Governance Recipe: The World's First QT-QMS: a practical toolkit that translates high-level principles of responsible quantum technology into an auditable management system. The piece frames the moment plainly—the second quantum revolution is, in its words, "an emerging present"—and argues that the window for proactive governance is now, while the technology is still malleable.

A governance-as-recipe control room rendering standards, ethics, and assessment as three integrated pillars of a clean auditable lattice over a stylized qubit.

What the Daiki Quantum Governance Recipe is

The Recipe is positioned as an operational answer to a familiar gap: standards bodies, academics, and policymakers have proposed frameworks, principles, and assessment methodologies, but innovators on the front lines need a system that actually runs them. Daiki describes its product as the world's first AI-driven toolkit for establishing a Quantum Technology Quality Management System (QT-QMS)—a claim the company makes for its own platform rather than a verdict we assert here. The stated purpose is concrete: implement internal quantum-governance best practices, demonstrate due diligence, and track performance against Responsible Quantum Technology (RQT) benchmarks—the "RQT by design" metrics that measure a system's adherence to fairness, transparency, security, and environmental sustainability.

The "Recipe" metaphor is deliberate. Rather than imposing one rigid process, the platform offers a curated set of governance "ingredients"—leading standards, ethical principles, and assessment methodologies—that an organization combines and tailors to its sector. The aim is to preserve the flexibility innovation needs while supplying the structure and automation that good governance demands.

dai.ki, August 8, 2025.

QT-QMS: a coined framework, and why quantum needs its own

The Quantum Technology Quality Management System is one of the management frameworks Kop and colleagues have coined, extending to quantum the system-level discipline that ISO 13485 brought to medical devices and ISO/IEC 27001 to information security. The logic is that quantum systems carry failure modes a generic quality regime never anticipated. Quantum computing does not behave like deterministic classical computing: a qubit's information lives in a fragile superposition that decoherence—uncontrolled coupling to the environment—degrades on timescales that, for today's leading hardware, can be as short as microseconds to milliseconds, so error rates, calibration drift, and fidelity are first-order operational facts rather than edge cases. Measurement itself is irreversible and probabilistic: observing a quantum state collapses it, which means verification, reproducibility, and audit have to be designed around what can be measured without destroying the very state under test. A management system for quantum technology must make these physical realities into documented, controllable processes—which is precisely what a dedicated QT-QMS is meant to do.

The standards-first foundation

The Recipe rests on a standards-first philosophy: voluntary, consensus-driven technical and management standards as the most workable governance foundation for a fast-moving, still-nascent field. That argument is not Daiki's alone—it tracks the peer-reviewed case Kop and co-authors made for quantum technology in Science, "Quantum technology governance: A standards-first approach" by Aboy, Gasser, Cohen, and Kop. The post situates the Recipe inside a four-stage regulatory cycle—principles, standards, soft law, and hard law—so that today's voluntary best practices become tomorrow's compliance evidence as binding rules such as a future EU Quantum Act take shape.

It also leans on a real, emerging standards ecosystem: the formation of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 3 on Quantum Technologies in January 2024, IEEE quantum-standards work, and NIST's leadership on post-quantum cryptography. The same convergence of standards and ethics runs through the Ten Principles for Responsible Quantum Innovation, published in IOP Quantum Science and Technology, which the Recipe adopts as its normative core.

The three core ingredients

Daiki organizes the platform around three integrated pillars. The QMS Backbone supplies the auditable, ISO-aligned framework for quality and risk management, aligning with ISO/IEC 27001 (information security), ISO/IEC 27005 (risk management), ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management systems, for the growing class of quantum-AI hybrids), and the proposed QT-QMS itself. The Ethical Compass operationalizes the Ten Principles—grouped as Safeguarding, Engaging, and Advancing (SEA)—through checklists, guided assessments, policy templates, and reporting modules. The Assessment Engine automates Quantum Impact Assessments (QIAs) across the lifecycle, supporting ex-ante, ex-durante, and ex-post audits and logging every decision and mitigation into a time-stamped trail.

The synthesis Daiki highlights is what it calls Quantum-Resistant Constitutional AI: the QMS Backbone hardens an AI system's lifecycle against quantum attack through ISO 27001 and post-quantum cryptography, the Ethical Compass binds it to a non-negotiable set of values, and the Assessment Engine continuously verifies both. The aim is systems that are, in the post's framing, "trustworthy by design—provably secure and demonstrably ethical."

From principles to an auditable system

The throughline is operationalization: turning responsible-innovation principles into something a regulator, insurer, or board can verify. The Recipe's pitch is that it removes governance overhead—pre-built frameworks, automated workflows, integrated reporting—so that startups and university labs rich in scientific talent but lean on legal and compliance resources can implement best-in-class governance without diverting their core mission. Daiki points toward a longer horizon as well: system-level certification of an organization's QT-QMS by an accredited body, on the model long used in medtech, as a foundation for demonstrating conformity and, eventually, CE marking for high-risk quantum products under an anticipated EU Quantum Act.

For boards and general counsel watching the quantum field, the message echoes the one now familiar from artificial intelligence regulation—the same constructive register Daiki struck in its companion SB-53 recipe for California's frontier-AI transparency law: governance is shifting from voluntary virtue to a function that must be documented and audited. Organizations that build one coherent, standards-based management system early—rather than a reactive checklist per statute—will be the ones ready when proactive governance becomes enforceable obligation. This QT-QMS recipe is one entry in Kop's Daiki series, alongside the SB-53 recipe for California's frontier-AI transparency law and the EU AI Act compliance solution for global enterprises.

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