Active since
2020
ADU/MISSION CONTROL
ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL
ADU/MISSION CONTROL
We are the computational research arm of the Autonomy Institute. Six data scientists and ML engineers who scrape filings, read millions of documents with language models, and model the economy, then hand the results to unions, charities, newsrooms and campaigners. Frontier methods. Movement values. Working since 2020.
We pull filings, donation records, contracts and the open web, then use language models to extract entities and the links between them. The output is a map of who is connected to whom, and who pays for what.
Microsimulation, input-output models, and bespoke indices. We build the number when the official statistic does not exist yet, or does not exist at the resolution a campaign needs.
LLM extraction across millions of documents (annual reports, registers, planning files) turned into a clean, queryable dataset. Boilerplate in, structured signal out.
Public-facing searchable databases, trackers and indexes that outlive the report. We ship the thing journalists and organisers actually open every day.
A small, full-time team inside the Autonomy Institute. Small enough that you talk to the person doing the work, not an account manager.
Most of our work starts with a conversation and a question someone in power would rather you did not ask. Tell us yours.
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