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How to Audit a Dataset Nobody Can Read
Risk Intelligence

How to Audit a Dataset Nobody Can Read

A working pattern for using AI to continuously audit large datasets, built on a frozen gold standard, held-out measurement, and a gate that blocks bad data from shipping.

Tom Wells

Chief Technology Officer

Identify the risks. Analyse the drivers. Manage the exposure.
Risk Intelligence

Identify the risks. Analyse the drivers. Manage the exposure.

Commodities underpin global value chains, and their production is exposed to human rights, environmental, economic and political risks that vary enormously by location. Aseri Commodity Intelligence provides a consistent, location-based view of those risks, at the source, across commodities you finance or buy.

James Hollins

Chief Risk Officer

The Audit Room - Part 1

The Audit Room - Part 1

Equity, Not Just Equality: What a "Dedicated Approach" Actually Means

Lawrence Paulson

Chief Audit & Compliance Officer

Putting risk on the map: turning sub-national signals into geospatial intelligence

Putting risk on the map: turning sub-national signals into geospatial intelligence

Learn how geospatial risk intelligence connects supplier coordinates with conflict and environmental data for more precise, auditable due diligence.

Tom Wells

Chief Technology Officer

The Subtle Art of Wage Theft in the UK Labour Market
Opinion

The Subtle Art of Wage Theft in the UK Labour Market

Sixteen years after the Agency Workers Regulations, most UK sites still underpay agency workers. A field auditor on the quiet mechanics of wage theft.

James Hollins

Chief Risk Officer

Flawed, Imperfect, and Absolutely Necessary: In Defence of Social Compliance Audits

Flawed, Imperfect, and Absolutely Necessary: In Defence of Social Compliance Audits

Social compliance audits get blamed for failures they were never built to prevent. Here's why risk-directed audits still protect workers and satisfy the CSDDD.

Lawrence Paulson

Chief Audit & Compliance Officer

AI at the Frontier of Risk Intelligence

AI at the Frontier of Risk Intelligence

Why the strongest risk intelligence comes from matching each task to the right model, not routing everything through the largest one. Fit beats size.

Tom Wells

Chief Technology Officer

Beyond Borders: Why Sub-National CAHRA Identification Is Now a Commercial Imperative for Mining Companies

Beyond Borders: Why Sub-National CAHRA Identification Is Now a Commercial Imperative for Mining Companies

Country-level risk assessments are no longer fit for purpose. As regulatory expectations sharpen and investor scrutiny intensifies, the mining sector needs a more precise lens on conflict-affected and high-risk areas.

James Hollins

Chief Risk Officer