Independence

How AIR APAC keeps research separate from sales.

AIR APAC publishes research on organisations' AI work and sells training, assessment and advice. We do not sell services to organisations we are currently measuring. Our research method and results are public.

The rules

Our rules for keeping research and sales apart

  • We sell nothing to an organisation while we are measuring it. A measurement period opens when we publish our questions, the AI systems we will test and our scoring rules. It closes when every result is published. Assessment sittings arranged through a trainer partner count as a sale.
  • It does not matter who pays. If your organisation is being measured, we will not train your people during that period, even if an association, a ministry or a donor pays.
  • Our free material is open to everyone at all times, including organisations we are measuring.
  • We fix and publish the method before each period opens, and we cannot change it afterwards. Customers have no say in the method for the next period.
  • Every organisation and place we measure receives its result free, at the same time and in the same form, whether or not it has ever paid us.
  • Customers get no private access, no early access and no influence. Anyone can read the questions, the systems we test and the scoring rules.
  • We disclose past work. Where we have worked with an organisation we also measure, we say so on the report, and we name when.
  • We take no money from the companies whose AI systems we measure, and none from booking platforms.
Accountability

Check our method and challenge our findings.

We publish our method and every correction we make. If you find an error in a result about you, tell us and we will publish the correction.

Also published

Who owns the assessment tool

The Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work (AIRS-J/1) sets the rules for assessing decisions made with AI. Assessments run on StepSim, an AIR APAC initiative built and operated by Exeter Labs. The owner of AIR APAC also owns Exeter Labs. Buying training or other services does not affect assessment decisions.

Read the Standard

On the same footing

Public results and paid training

AIR Academy is AIR APAC's learning division. Buying training does not change any result in the AI Readiness Index. Index results are free to read.

AIR Academy

Governance

Who governs the Standard

The Standard is governed by a named Review Board. The owner of AIR APAC holds a veto over the board's recommendations, and each board member's dissent from a released version is recorded in the version history. The Standard also has an External Academic Reviewer, Prof. Mudiarasan Kuppusamy, UNITAR International University.

AIR APAC Pte. Ltd. is a social enterprise company registered in Singapore (UEN 202600913G). It has received no grant, donation or sponsorship, and no organisation pays to be included in the Index.

See the Review Board · How the Standard is governed

Check us

Where the rules are visible

Method

How we read organisations' published AI work

The method

Report an error in a result

Questions and worked examples.

Short pages that explain this part of the Standard in plain words. The Standard's own text, above and in AIRS-J/1 v2.3, governs.