Otopoetic published the Mills Review on 6 July.

Otopoetic provides Private Equity firms, institutional investors, and global boards with the forensic scrutiny required to de-risk high-consequence AI deployments. Our work addresses the questions boards cannot currently answer: who understood the downside before deployment, what was formally documented, who owns accountability when the system fails, and whether those decisions will survive regulatory, legal, or shareholder scrutiny. Central to this is what we call the Digital Alibi: the ability to forensically reconstruct the complete information picture behind every material AI-assisted decision as it was made. Most boards cannot currently do this. We establish whether they can, and we build the governance architecture that makes it possible. We apply the Governance Classification, a proprietary framework drawing on faceted classification theory, to give organisations a precise, multi-dimensional position within the AI governance landscape. Not a score. Not a traffic light. A specific, actionable address across five independent dimensions. Our services cover AI governance classification, the Alibi Protocol, technical due diligence for investors, EU AI Act compliance mapping, and critical infrastructure oversight. We operate across insurance, aviation, financial services, telecoms, and the public sector: environments where the cost of systemic failure is measured in capital, liability, and institutional trust. Founded by Dr. Ivan Roche FRSS FRSA MInstP, former CTO, COO and Interim CDO, with 25 years of executive leadership in safety-critical and regulated sectors. We do not publish client names. We publish the patterns that prevent failure. otopoetic.com

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