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.

Retrofit Navigator

How Retrofit Navigator Works

The Retrofit Navigator (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 different types of user.

BuilderWhat are the pros and cons of air source heat pumps?

ArchitectWhat preparations are required to install an air source heat pump?

HomeownerWhat types of green insulation are suitable for an older property in Scotland?

Home ownerPlease describe the alternative heating upgrades possible, emphasizing green-technologies

Builders’ merchantWhat type of rendering and how much to supply for …

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.

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.

How Safety Navigator Works

Safety Navigator enables deep analysis of system dependencies, assumptions, and mitigations—critical for robust safety cases. The architecture allows it to adapt across domains while maintaining alignment with safety assurance best practices, making it ideally suited for multipurpose systems under continual change. Rather than replace human engineers, Safety Navigator augments their efforts—rapidly parsing technical documentation and helping them focus on the highest-priority risks. This is particularly valuable when change requests cut across multiple functional areas or introduce new system dependencies.

The University of York verified that Safety Navigator's outputs meet all UK government Data Quality dimensions. By highlighting deltas in safety cases and guiding mitigation efforts, the tool helps ensure that risks remain As Low As Reasonably Practicable and tolerable without slowing innovation. This reduces the time and cost required to deploy new technologies, enhancing the UK’s ability to field cutting-edge capabilities that address issues such as climate change while maintaining rigorous safety standards.

Shown below is example output from Safety Navigator, together with a mind map that shows the user how the analysis was generated and lets them click through to the original sources to verify it.

Dedoctive Safety Navigator – GSN Diagram With HyperlinksDedoctive Safety Navigator – GSN Diagram With Hyperlinks

Dedoctive Safety Navigator – Mind MapDedoctive Safety Navigator – Mind Map