Description

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, runs BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst to move advanced UK AI and machine learning solutions beyond pilots towards trusted operational deployment and replication. This assurance and compliance strand supports systems whose primary purpose is to monitor, test, verify, validate or evidence whether systems, processes or outcomes meet defined regulatory requirements, standards or controls.

Phase 1 funds feasibility work on existing solutions at technology readiness level 5 or 6. Consortia develop an evidence-based deployment use case, assess supplier and deployer readiness, identify substantive deployment barriers and demonstrate the solution in a representative operational environment. AI must be innovative, advanced and central to the deployment. Early-stage research, generic productivity tools, back-office automation, routine implementation and AI peripheral to core operations are outside scope.