THE PROBLEMS

“As AI becomes more powerful, it faces a major trust problem. Consider 12 leading concerns
Each of these issues is complex — and not easy to solve.”

“AI’s TRUST PROBLEM”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 3 MAY 2024

“AI models are becoming far less important than the apps that harness them. However, building custom apps using AI models is just too hard for most businesses right now.”

“2025 is the Year of the AI App”,
The Information, 14 January 2025

OUR SOLUTION

We work with experts in different sectors to develop

Trustworthy AI Navigators

AI tools that reliably analyse complex information—ensuring it’s correct, complete, consistent, current, concise, and checkable—while also semi-automating knowledge work processes with the same level of trustworthiness.

  • Dedoctive wraps Large Language Models, via multiply-indexed knowledge models that make responses reliable and verifiable
  • Our Navigators use curated workflows created by human experts to deliver solutions, not just information, in simple interactive visuals
  • Revealing hidden connections and vital innovations that unlock the value in structured / unstructured data
  • With complete provenance hyperlinks to details in sources

HOW IT WORKS

We have developed a unique AI innovation that fuses cutting edge generative AI techniques with a range of other technologies. Each of our trustworthy AI Navigators uses carefully staged steps to extract information from a:

  • Comprehensive, multi-indexed knowledge model that
  • Combines structured data with unstructured data (e.g., both databases and documents) from
  • Curated, verified sources.

The result? Our AI Navigators tell:

The truth.

Dedoctive Navigators obtain answers using specialist multi-step workflows created by human experts. Each part of an answer includes hyperlinks into expert-verified sources. Links take you directly to the key details, which could be background features of an image or items in a table. Dedoctive then lets you discover related information.

The whole truth.

Dedoctive identifies the deep connections linking information items, even those that seem unrelated. You can then use interactive visuals to analyse arguments and explore their context. This makes hidden knowledge and new opportunities available to you.

And nothing but the truth.

Dedoctive provides only the knowledge most relevant to your question. This gives you better answers and faster performance, for a lower cost. All answers are drawn from verified, reliable sources – and if no answer if available, Dedoctive will say so. Dedoctive does not hallucinate.

OUR IMPACT

With the aid and purpose-based support of government / charitable grants, we are building trustworthy AI Navigators in partnership with industry stakeholders to help communities everywhere respond to emerging threats – with a particular focus on the existential challenge of our age, climate change.

  • CONVERT: Make homes and other buildings greener and healthier
    • Retrofit Navigator helps architects, builders, and homeowners upgrade homes and other buildings for the 21st century, by providing everything they need to know about the holistic new construction practices of Whole House Eco-Retrofit
    • Learning Navigator helps build the capacity needed in critical areas such as green skills, by enabling training and certification providers to assemble reference materials flexibly, make them easily accessible to students, and semi-automate assessments
    • Green Skills Navigator [forthcoming] will help people (e.g., those whose jobs are threatened by AI) find fulfilling and rewarding work locally, by providing personalised pathways into green jobs, highlighting opportunities with local employers and directing workers towards suitable training services
  • CULTIVATE: Develop and regenerate communities for the benefit of all
    • Safety Navigator helps ensure that technologies employed to address climate change and other issues are safe to operate and operated safely, by highlighting weaknesses and omissions in safety cases for complex systems
    • Climate Response Navigator [forthcoming] will massively reduce the time required to adopt climate adaptations and mitigations, by semi-automating the creation of investment-ready projects that address the impacts of climate change and turn them to advantage
    • Place Navigator [forthcoming] will help developers and communities ensure that planning applications align with modern community- and wellness-oriented placemaking, by providing simple explanations and in-depth impact analysis.
  • COORDINATE: Respond effectively in times of crisis
    • Safety & Incident Response for building Emergency Networks (SIREN) empowers disaster responders by providing swift and effective routing for debris clearance, casualty transportation, wildfire suppression, search and rescue, and relief aid distribution
    • Crisis Navigator [forthcoming] will empower decision-makers to respond more effectively to emerging crisis situations by synthesizing and analysing intelligence from multiple sources (e.g., OSINT) to reduce the time required for situational awareness

We also build custom AI Navigators for organisations to help their staff access information flexibly at point of need, publish effectively to stakeholders, and more.

Featured AI Navigator

Retrofit Navigator

Construction and property improvement are changing.

Funded by Ufi VocTech Trust and working with the Green Skills Advisory Panel, we are helping builders, architects, and homeowners navigate the new world that is emerging – and that affects us all.

Try asking questions about whole house eco-retrofit.

You can ask in any language, and use the dot-dot-dot menu to customise the way Dedoctive answers.

AI Assistant for Retrofit (WHERbot)

Featured AI Navigator

Safety Navigator

Helping us adopt new technologies safely.

Modern technology systems, including those that support climate adaptation in the home and at larger scale, are evolving faster than traditional assurance methods can handle. This means it is hard to manage the costs and risks of ensuring equipment remains safe and is used safely. With increasing pressure to adopt new technologies rapidly, the risk grows that functionality may be deployed at scale without robust safety assurance. This exposes both individuals and wider society to hazards of unknown magnitude.

Hence, we received government funding to develop, in partnership with the Centre for Assuring Autonomy at the University of York, an AI assistant that supports safety engineers in maintaining credible safety cases amidst rapid change. The resulting system—Safety Navigator—automatically transforms safety documentation into Goal Structuring Notation (GSN, a visual format that clarifies the logic and evidence of safety cases), while analysing the argument to identify potential weaknesses, inconsistencies, or evidence gaps that require further attention.

Goal Structuring Notation
Goal Structuring Notation

At the heart of Safety Navigator is Dedoctive, our unique AI engine that reliably analyses complex information—ensuring it’s correct, complete, consistent, current, concise, and checkable—while also semi-automating knowledge work processes with the same level of trustworthiness. Dedoctive wraps Large Language Models via multiply-indexed knowledge models that make responses not only reliable but also verifiable, via complete provenance hyperlinks to details in sources. Dedoctive “Navigators” use workflows created by human experts to deliver solutions, not just information, in simple interactive visuals.

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Contact us

  • Tell us about the information you want to unlock (documents, data, websites, intranet, or other content) and we’ll show you how a trustworthy AI Navigator can help.
  • Become a partner. Our trustworthy AI Navigators are delivered by channel partners that collaborate in their own Supercommunity of Dedoctive suppliers, working together to build synergy, explore new opportunities, and license MCP tools to each other .

Our trustworthy AI Navigators keep your data safe

  • Dedoctive uses best practice security protocols to protect your information and ensure confidentiality. We are certified with Cyber Essentials.
  • Information provided by Dedoctive is stored only in your browser cache, and none is stored on our servers. You can retrieve this Chat history at any time and resume where you left off.
  • If required, we can provide on-premises solutions or an automated redaction mechanism that ensures no information is ever transmitted openly to cloud services.

Dedoctive Ltd is based in Somerset, UK
UK company number: 15847837

Meet Dedoctive

OUR MISSION

We believe that social and economic challenges can be addressed by showing communities of all sizes and types how to become antifragile.

Supercommunities face each new challenge by restructuring – changing the use of capitals and assets to improve outcomes for members, their environment, and their descendants.

OUR VISION

We are delivering the enabling technology for Supercommunities: the Internet of Communities. Our trustworthy AI Navigators help community members evolve:

  • Strategies and solutions to thrive in the face of challenges
  • How to implement them using local capitals and assets
  • Commitments to action by organisations and individuals
  • Reputation and trust by sharing the commitments you’ve made

Keith Harrison-Broninski’s blog discusses how the apps that we are creating using Dedoctive’s unique technology form the basis of the Internet of Communities.

Founders

Meet the founders of Dedoctive.

Keith Harrison-Broninski is a technology thought leader who gives keynotes and lectures to business and academic audiences worldwide. His 2005 book "Human Interactions" set out the first formal theory of collaborative work processes ("Set to produce the first fundamental advances in personal productivity since the arrival of the spreadsheet", Information Age). His 2020 book "Supercommunities" set out a similarly ground-breaking theory of antifragile communities ("Read this book!", from the foreword by Vint Cerf, Co-Inventor of the Internet, "A fascinating, eclectic and powerful call for us to rebuild society from the bottom up. Ranging from ancient history to economics to psychology to public policy 'Supercommunities' is both authoritative and highly readable", from the foreword by Matthew Taylor, then Chief Executive, The Royal Society of Arts). As an entrepreneur, Keith has created award-winning health and wellness platforms for cities and led technology-based transformation programmes for governments.

Keith’s Blog

Keith discusses the Internet of Communities apps that we are creating using Dedoctive’s unique technology.

Keith Harrison-Broninski

Chief Executive Officer

Keith Harrison-Broninski is a technology thought leader who gives keynotes and lectures to business and academic audiences worldwide.

Keith’s 2005 book “Human Interactions” set out the first formal theory of collaborative work processes.

“Set to produce the first fundamental advances in personal productivity since the arrival of the spreadsheet”, Information Age

Keith’s 2020 book “Supercommunities” set out a similarly ground-breaking theory of antifragile communities.

“Read this book!”, from the foreword by Vint Cerf, Co-Inventor of the Internet

“A fascinating, eclectic and powerful call for us to rebuild society from the bottom up. Ranging from ancient history to economics to psychology to public policy ‘Supercommunities’ is both authoritative and highly readable”, from the foreword by Matthew Taylor, then Chief Executive, The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

As an entrepreneur, Keith has created award-winning health and wellness platforms for cities and led technology-based transformation programmes for governments.

Peter Lawrence is a passionate and innovative senior technologist who delivers transformational solutions to strategic technical challenges at enterprise level, including as founder / CTO of several startups. At Matrikon, which was acquired by Honeywell, Peter led all software and information technology developments, transforming the software platform from an expensive-to-maintain legacy system to a Lean system focusing on added-value and utilizing third-party technology where possible. Peter also transformed the development processes from traditional but inefficient waterfall development to Agile methodology. Before that, as President and founder of Resolution Integration Solutions, Peter led the creation of Resolution, an innovative database model application for the process manufacturing industries. Other positions Peter has held included Director of Technology at Morrison Knudsen, Vice President at KBC Advanced Technology, Technical Director and founder of KBC Process Automation, and a founder of Process Automation and Computer Systems Ltd.

Peter’s Blog

Peter discusses the advances in Knowledge-Augmented Generation (KAG) represented by Dedoctive’s unique technology.

Peter Lawrence

Chief Technology Officer

Peter Lawrence is a passionate and innovative senior technologist who delivers transformational solutions to strategic technical challenges at enterprise level.

Peter has founded and led several startups as CTO.

At Matrikon, which was acquired by Honeywell, Peter led all software and information technology developments, transforming the software platform from an expensive-to-maintain legacy system to a Lean system focusing on added-value and utilizing third-party technology where possible.

Peter also transformed the development processes from traditional but inefficient waterfall development to Agile methodology.

Before that, as President and founder of Resolution Integration Solutions, Peter led the creation of Resolution, an innovative database model application for the process manufacturing industries.

Other positions Peter has held included Director of Technology at Morrison Knudsen, Vice President at KBC Advanced Technology, Technical Director and founder of KBC Process Automation, and a founder of Process Automation and Computer Systems Ltd.