Trust Centre

We hold ourselves to the standard we set.

How ETHOS verifies its own statements, protects your data and stays independent.

Claims register

Every claim, with its evidence.

We publish the institutional, methodological and regulatory claims this website makes, alongside the evidence behind each and when it was last reviewed. If a claim cannot be evidenced, it is revised or retired.

RegulatoryIncorporated as an independent non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC No. 17324848), incorporated in England & Wales.Verified
Evidence: Companies House registration for The Ethos Institute CIC, company number 17324848. Publicly verifiable via Companies House WebCheck service.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
RegulatoryAsset Lock Nominee: University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Registered Charity No. 1149535).Verified
Evidence: Charity Commission register entry for the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, charity number 1149535. Named as asset-lock nominee in the CIC34 community interest statement.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
MethodologicalFounded to formalise 35 years of peer-reviewed research led by Georgios Dimitropoulos.Verified
Evidence: Georgios Dimitropoulos academic publication record commencing c.1994 (University of Athens, Max Planck Institute, etc.). See academic-partners.tsx and team.tsx for biographical details.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
MethodologicalThis trajectory has involved the systematic analysis of over 100 international governance models.Verified
Evidence: Bridge Framework research corpus mapping; internal spreadsheet of analysed governance models cross-referenced against the 10-pillar taxonomy.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
MethodologicalThe research corpus is grounded in thousands of peer-reviewed, academic and professional resources (no public count is published).Verified
Evidence: Ethos Digital Brain source bibliography (RAG corpus). Corpus Ethica: thousands of peer-reviewed, academic and professional resources (no public count is published).
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
MethodologicalThe Bridge Framework — an integrated, 10-pillar methodology that provides explicit operational guidance for secure, compliant, and responsible technology deployment.Verified
Evidence: Bridge Framework specification document (internal). 10 pillars mapped to EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
RegulatoryThe 10-Pillar Bridge Framework maps systematically to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR.Verified
Evidence: Cross-reference matrix published in the Bridge Framework methodology appendix. Each pillar has documented mappings to the named regulatory instruments.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
CommercialHosted on dedicated UK infrastructure — no dependency on US hyperscale cloud providers.Verified
Evidence: Cloudflare Pages + UK-based dedicated server for the Ethos Digital Brain. No AWS/Azure/GCP data-plane dependencies for core services.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
CommercialOur Agentic Assurance engine provides persistent oversight of AI systems — monitoring compliance, flagging drift, and generating evidence-based governance reports.Verified
Evidence: Ethos C² platform technical specification and live deployment documentation.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
MethodologicalOur governance methodology is grounded in published academic work — including monographs with leading academic presses.Verified
Evidence: Georgios Dimitropoulos publication list (peer-reviewed monographs and journal articles). See team.tsx for publication details.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
InstitutionalThe Institute’s operational baseline is primarily funded via independent assurance contracts with public sector and healthcare organisations, and peer-reviewed educational grants.Verified
Evidence: CIC annual report and accounts (filed with Companies House). Revenue breakdown confirms no commercial sponsorship dependency.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
Statistical78% of organisations use AI in at least one business function.Verified
Evidence: McKinsey & Company, The State of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value (2025). https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai-how-organizations-are-rewiring-to-capture-value
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
StatisticalOnly 22% of organisations say their AI governance is operating effectively (87% report having some form of it).Verified
Evidence: American Arbitration Association, AI governance survey press release. https://www.adr.org/press-releases/aaa-ai-governance-survey/
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
StatisticalDigital-trust leaders are 1.6x more likely to see revenue and EBIT growth of at least 10% annually.Verified
Evidence: McKinsey & Company, Why digital trust truly matters (2022). https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/why-digital-trust-truly-matters
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
StatisticalLegislative mentions of AI rose 21.3% across 75 countries in 2024.Verified
Evidence: Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2025, Policy and Governance chapter. https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/policy-and-governance
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
Statistical95% of organisations report no measurable return from generative AI pilots; externally partnered deployments succeed about 67% of the time against roughly one third for internal builds.Verified
Evidence: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025; reported by Fortune, 18 Aug 2025. https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
StatisticalThe global average cost of a data breach was USD 4.88 million.Verified
Evidence: IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024. https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/whats-new-2024-cost-of-a-data-breach-report
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
StatisticalBreaches involving a third party increased by 68% year on year.Verified
Evidence: Verizon, 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report. https://www.verizon.com/about/news/2024-data-breach-investigations-report-vulnerability-exploitation-boom
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
Statistical88% of S&P 500 companies have no cybersecurity expert as a director.Verified
Evidence: The Wall Street Journal, Boards Still Lack Cybersecurity Expertise (25 Sep 2023). https://www.wsj.com/articles/boards-still-lack-cybersecurity-expertise-70094266
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
RegulatoryFines for prohibited AI practices reach up to EUR 35 million or 7% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.Verified
Evidence: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), Article 99(3). https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/99/
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
Institutional74% of UWTSD research was judged as delivering outstanding and very considerable impact (REF 2021).Verified
Evidence: UWTSD, Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 results. https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/research/research-excellence-framework-ref-2021
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
Data residency & deployment

Your data stays where you decide.

ETHOS platforms run on dedicated UK infrastructure, with no dependency on US hyperscale cloud providers. Every product (Assurance Studio, Assay, the Digital Brain and the Quiet Room) can also be deployed fully air-gapped on your own infrastructure.

Our models and deterministic expert engines are developed in-house, in the UK and EU. ETHOS is researched and built in Europe, and collaborates with institutions worldwide.

  • UK-hosted by default
  • Air-gapped deployment for every product
  • Our own models and deterministic expert engines
  • Aligned with UK GDPR and the EU AI Act
Independence

Independent by structure, not just by statement.

The ETHOS Institute is a registered UK non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC No. 17324848), incorporated in England & Wales. Its asset-lock nominee is the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Registered Charity No. 1149535).

Practising what we publish

The Bridge Framework, applied to ourselves.

The ten pillars we use to assess others guide how ETHOS builds, documents and governs its own systems. Our findings are advisory, informing expert judgement and never replacing it.