HELPING SOCIETY NAVIGATE CHANGE
Dedoctive Navigators help communities respond to emerging threats.
With the purpose-based support of government / charitable grants, and in partnership with industry stakeholders, Collaboration Tools Ltd is using Dedoctive to build trustworthy AI Navigators to help communities everywhere respond to emerging threats – with a particular focus on the existential challenge of our age, climate change.
- PROTECT: Ensure that adoption of new technologies keeps risks as low as reasonably practicable and empower effective humanitarian response to crises
- Our flagship product Safety Navigator helps deploy modern technology systems, from climate adaptation to infrastructure protection and more, at scale and pace while ensuring that systems remain safe and are used safely.
- As part of SIREN (Safety & Incident Response for building Emergency Networks), we are developing RouteMAIT to empower disaster responders by providing swift and effective routing for debris clearance, casualty transportation, wildfire suppression, search and rescue, and relief aid distribution.
- Crisis Navigator [in development] will help cities and regions minimize the effects of disasters before they occur, by fusing data feeds and applying simulations from an open-source library into an AI-enabled digital twin that enables predictive situational awareness and informed preparation.
- PREPARE: Develop the human skills capacity needed to make homes and other buildings greener and healthier
- Retrofit Navigator helps homeowners, advisors, architects, and builders make homes and other buildings warm, comfortable, and sustainable, by providing them with designs, plans, and local costs for practical construction projects.
- Green Skills Navigator [in development] 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, directing workers towards suitable training services, and helping trainees obtain supportive funding.
- Wellness Navigator [in development] will help users develop safe, personalised and evidence-informed wellness plans, while giving clinical and delivery partners a governable framework for preventive, low-intensity self-help support.
- PROVIDE: Help communities create the infrastructure necessary to respond effectively to climate change and support their most vulnerable members
- Adaptation Navigator [in development] will share strategies for grass roots climate adaptation and provide communities with customised pathways to adoption.
- Healthcare Navigator [in development] will help patients understand and doctors review clinical recommendations, by summarising the relevant parts of the patient’s health record and analysing its implications for a proposed diagnosis / prognosis / treatment plan.
- Place Navigator [in development] will help developers and communities ensure that new housing developments align with modern community- and wellness-oriented placemaking, by helping streamline the delivery of optimal S106 agreements.
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
Safety Navigator
Helping society adopt new technologies safely
Modern technology systems, from climate adaptation to infrastructure protection and more, are evolving faster than traditional assurance methods can handle. This makes it hard to deploy at scale and pace while ensuring that systems remain safe and are used safely. With increasing pressure to adopt new technologies rapidly, the risk grows that functionality may be deployed without robust safety assurance, exposing 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 and managing associated risks amidst rapid change. The resulting product, Safety Navigator, enables deep analysis of system dependencies, assumptions, evidence, risks, mitigations, and regulatory compliance. 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.
The University of York verified that Safety Navigator’s outputs meet all UK government Data Quality dimensions – all information provided is correct, complete, consistent, current, concise, and checkable. This is possible due to Dedoctive’s unique architecture.
Safety Navigator does not replace safety and risk professionals . Rather, it augments their efforts, by parsing technical documentation rapidly to provide engineering-grade graphical outputs that help human experts focus their attention on high priority issues. This is particularly valuable when change requests cut across multiple functional areas or introduce new system dependencies.
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 an organisational user’s ability to field cutting-edge capabilities while maintaining rigorous safety standards.
Features
The version of Safety Navigator developed with government funding 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.
We have since extended Safety Navigator to support risk management and compliance assessment.
Risk management. Bowtie diagrams are essential tools for mapping complex risk scenarios and ensuring robust safety controls, but creating them has always been a slow, manual process. With Safety Navigator, the user can select a GSN node (e.g., representing operating context, a claim, an assumption, or a piece of evidence) to see a bowtie diagram showing the threats and consequences associated with the node being invalid.
Compliance assessment. Safety Navigator automatically creates from engineering documents and data an overview document (e.g., a Production Readiness Review or Safety Case Report), then lets the user customise the document with agentic automation. It then evaluates the system against applicable policies, regulations, and standards, updating the document to recommend approval / rejection and mandate appropriate conditions / amendments.
As with all Dedoctive products, all Safety Navigator outputs are fully trustworthy and verifiable. Being drawn only from a “knowledge model”, outputs are guaranteed to be correct, complete, consistent, current, concise, and checkable. Each statement is accompanied by hyperlinks to the original sources, and these hyperlinks are also presented in a visual mind-map. Workflows use the open BPMN standard, and can be customised using a simple visual tool.