Because our trustworthy AI Assistants use more than generative AI.
By fusing generative AI such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation with semantic and other technologies, we make trustworthy AI Assistants that tell:
The truth.
Each paragraph in a Dedoctive answer is hyperlinked 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 intermediate connections linking information items, even those that seem unrelated. This makes deeply hidden knowledge 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.
Our trustworthy AI Assistants
With the aid of government / charitable grants, and in partnership with industry stakeholders, we are building AI Assistants that help people:
Make their homes and communities greener and healthier
AI Assistant for Retrofit helps architects, builders, and homeowners learn everything they need to know about the new world of Whole House Eco-Retrofit (see below for more details)
Find fulfilling work, locally
AI Assistant for Green Skills Transition provides personalised pathways into green jobs, highlighting opportunities with local employers and directing workers towards suitable training services
Understand regulations
Place CoPilot transforms the way local authority clients and their partners find trusted answers to queries relating to urban design codes and other regulations
Stay safe
AI Assistant to Ensure Continuing Safety helps safety engineers identify weaknesses and omissions in safety cases for complex systems
AI Assistant for Safety Regulators helps regulators audit safety case updates for complex systems against relevant regulations
Support each other after disasters
Safety & Incident Response for building Emergency Networks (SIREN) empowers response to natural disasters by volunteers at grass roots
Forthcoming AI Assistants will help
Further Education colleges assemble reference materials and make them easily accessible to students
Organisations publish complex information to stakeholders
Ethnic minority businesses understand the support available to them
Communities take collective action to adapt to climate change
Stakeholders in infrastructure protect it against threats
Engineers gain access to complex information at point of need
And more.
Ask Dedoctive a question about itself!
You can ask in any language, and use the dot-dot-dot menu to customise the way Dedoctive answers.
The AI Assistant for Retrofit (WHERbot) is a Web-based software tool designed for builders merchants, construction companies, and training providers. WHERbot allows a customer’s staff such as salespeople and construction advisors (through their intranet) and their own customers such as independent builders, architects, and homeowners (through their website) to learn everything they need to know about the new world of Whole House Eco-Retrofit (WHER).
Users ask WHERbot questions in ordinary language and it provides answers from a verified collection of authoritative documents, providing links inside each answer to relevant paragraphs and images. Customers can also promote their catalogues and price lists by adding them to this collection of documents. An expert team ensures that WHERbot continues to offer only verified, reliable information by curating customer-provided documents for relevance and accuracy.
Shown below are an illustration of how WHERbot works together with example questions from a builder, an architect, and a homeowner.
Construction and property improvement are changing.Like the majority of local authorities in the UK, Surrey County Council had a problem with their design codes. But it wasn’t with the documents themselves. These are detailed and carefully curated sources of valuable information for urban developers, and other stakeholders, created with the purpose of ensuring they adhere to the correct local planning standards.
Instead, the issue was with the accessibility of those codes. The length and necessary detail in each document makes it challenging for developers to locate the answers they need to specific planning questions. This often results in many hours of work, for both developers and anyone fielding queries, that could be spent on higher value tasks. There is also the risk of the codes not being correctly adhered to if answers are difficult to locate – which could lead to legal reviews, challenges from the planning committees, or all manner of other headaches.
Therefore, Surrey asked us to find a way to make design codes more accessible to developers in a user-friendly way, with answers that could be fully trusted by all stakeholders. Because we’ve put accessibility and humanisation to the fore, we also have high hopes for further benefits, such as improved adherence to design codes, better-designed environments and enhanced relationships between all stakeholders – including the general public.
How to get started
Contact us. Just tell us about the information you want to unlock and we’ll create a trustworthy AI Assistant demo for you.
Our trustworthy AI Assistants keep your data safe
Dedoctive uses best practice security protocols to protect your information and ensure confidentiality. We are certified with Cyber Essentials.
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.
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.
