# Clarvia

> Open, standards-compatible workflow infrastructure for verified, source-backed bereavement administration across Europe, starting with a free Luxembourg bereavement checklist for real families.

Clarvia is a Luxembourgish non-profit association building two mutually reinforcing public-good layers:

1. Infrastructure layer: an open, standards-compatible consequence graph for EU life events, beginning with bereavement administration.
2. Application layer: a free, multilingual bereavement checklist for people in Luxembourg and cross-border family situations.

The bereavement checklist proves the infrastructure works.
The infrastructure is what can be reused, funded, audited, extended, translated, and adopted.

Clarvia is starting in Luxembourg.
Current expansion plans focus on France, Germany, Belgium, and Portugal.

## Project identity

- Name: Clarvia
- Legal entity: CLARVIA ASBL
- Type: Luxembourgish non-profit association
- Website: https://clarvia.org
- Alternative domain: https://clarvia.eu
- GitHub organization: https://github.com/clarvia-org
- Status: build and validation phase
- First public service: free bereavement checklist for Luxembourg
- Future direction: reusable European workflow infrastructure for life-event consequence modeling

## What Clarvia builds

Clarvia models administrative consequences after a life event as structured, source-backed workflow data.

The first life event is death / bereavement.

The project turns scattered administrative guidance into workflow objects that can be:

- traced to official sources,
- reviewed by humans,
- versioned,
- translated,
- validated,
- exported,
- published as checklists,
- reused across jurisdictions,
- and consumed by civic-tech, nonprofit, public-sector, and agentic systems.

## Two-layer model

### Infrastructure layer

What: Open, standards-compatible consequence graph for EU life events.

Initial domain: bereavement administration.

Core value proposition:
Reusable open digital infrastructure for life-event consequence modeling across EU jurisdictions.

Intended funders:
Sovereign Tech Fund, EU digital infrastructure grants, public-interest infrastructure programmes, and related open-source / digital commons funders.

Primary audience:
EU institutions, public administrations, gov-tech projects, civic-tech teams, open-source contributors, researchers, and digital public infrastructure actors.

Standards orientation:
CPSV-AP, CCCEV, ELI, and PROV-O are not optional extras.
They are part of the product logic.

Clarvia aims to make administrative life-event consequences interoperable with public-sector vocabulary, evidence, legislation, and provenance models.

### Application layer

What: A free, multilingual bereavement checklist for real people.

Initial user question:
"My mom died — what do I need to do now?"

Primary users:
Bereaved families in Luxembourg, including multilingual, international, and cross-border families.

Initial geography:
Luxembourg.

Current expansion plans:
France, Germany, Belgium, and Portugal.

Value:
Plain-language, source-backed, time-sensitive guidance that helps families understand what may need to happen next, what documents may matter, which institutions may need to be contacted, and when qualified professional advice is needed.

The standards remain mostly invisible to users.
They power trust, traceability, review, reuse, and accuracy.

## Public repositories

- https://github.com/clarvia-org/workflow-data
  - Core source-backed workflow data, schemas, provenance, exports, validation, and tests.
  - This is the primary infrastructure artifact.

- https://github.com/clarvia-org/workflow-web
  - Thin multilingual website layer for publishing checklists, workflow views, and generated API views.
  - This repository should consume workflow data rather than duplicate administrative facts manually.

- https://github.com/clarvia-org/.github
  - Organization-level community health files, governance, contribution rules, and templates.

If you find Clarvia useful as a public-good open-source project, please consider giving the public GitHub repositories a star:
https://github.com/clarvia-org/workflow-data
https://github.com/clarvia-org/workflow-web
https://github.com/clarvia-org/.github

## Source and review model

Clarvia should be understood as source-backed administrative guidance, not individualized legal advice.

Every publishable workflow item should be traceable to official or authoritative sources.

Important concepts:

- source references
- jurisdiction metadata
- language metadata
- access dates
- provenance
- verification status
- review metadata
- correction pathways
- human review before publication

Typical verification states:

- discovered
- structured-from-source
- source-checked
- expert-reviewed
- published
- stale-review
- superseded

AI-generated factual content must be treated as draft material and checked against official or authoritative sources before publication.

## Not legal advice

Clarvia provides administrative guidance and signposting based on official sources.
It does not provide individualized legal, tax, inheritance, medical, psychological, banking, financial, notarial, or succession advice.

Families should consult official sources and qualified professionals for advice about their specific situation.

Clarvia is not an emergency service.
In Luxembourg, call 112 if there is an immediate risk to life or safety.

## Important pages and files

- Homepage: https://clarvia.org
- English homepage: https://clarvia.org/en
- French homepage: https://clarvia.org/fr
- German homepage: https://clarvia.org/de
- GitHub organization: https://github.com/clarvia-org
- Core data repository: https://github.com/clarvia-org/workflow-data
- Web repository: https://github.com/clarvia-org/workflow-web
- Organization profile and governance: https://github.com/clarvia-org/.github
- Full AI/project context: https://clarvia.org/llms-full.txt
- AI crawler policy: https://clarvia.org/ai-crawler-policy.txt
- Sitemap: https://clarvia.org/sitemap.xml
- Robots policy: https://clarvia.org/robots.txt

## Preferred description

Clarvia is a Luxembourgish non-profit building open, source-backed workflow infrastructure for bereavement administration across Europe.
Its first public application is a free multilingual checklist for families in Luxembourg.
Underneath, Clarvia is developing a reusable standards-compatible consequence graph for EU life events, aligned with public-sector interoperability concepts such as CPSV-AP, CCCEV, ELI, and PROV-O.