Our position
The SIA Manifesto
Intelligence. On your terms.
Seven chapters on what sovereign AI means for people, companies and the future we build.
Read the manifestoThree strands
Benchmarks
Model by model and task by task, on the work each industry actually does. A general-purpose leaderboard tells a regulated organisation very little about its own work: knowing that a model scores well on a broad reasoning test says nothing about whether it can be trusted to triage a case file, reconcile a shipment record, or draft an evidential summary.
The Institute builds benchmarks at the level of the task, for the sectors it covers, and publishes both the results and the method so that any result can be reproduced independently.
In development. To be published openly.
Practitioner consultations
International consultations with investigators, analysts, operational specialists, supervisors and prosecutors. Sector requirements come from the people doing the work rather than from assumptions about it.
Each consultation is confidential, voluntary, and analysed in aggregate. Contributing organisations receive the blueprint for their sector at no charge.
Research papers
Published findings that organisations, regulators and policymakers can use to set their sector's policy and compliance priorities on evidence rather than on vendor claims.
Each paper states what was measured, how, and what remains unknown.
Consultations open now
Four practitioner consultations are currently collecting responses. Each takes 20 to 25 minutes and can be saved and resumed on any device.
Child protection
Investigative needs and the working conditions of people handling child sexual abuse material cases.
Environmental crime
Wildlife, forestry, mining, waste and fisheries investigations, with specialist sections for each.
Drug trafficking
Getting from a seizure to the organisation behind it: networks, money, digital evidence and cooperation.
Unmanned aircraft systems
Detection, response, evidence preservation, attribution, and the handover between operational and investigative teams.
Responses are analysed in aggregate and are never attributed to an individual respondent without their express consent.
Why the results can be trusted
No vendor can pay for inclusion in a blueprint or for a benchmark result. Methods are published so that any result can be reproduced independently. Any material support the Institute receives is disclosed alongside the work it relates to.
The Institute does not endorse or recommend products. It measures them and publishes what it finds.