ADU
We are the Autonomy Data Unit, the research and engineering arm of the Autonomy Institute. Six data scientists and machine-learning engineers. Think of us as the data arm of the public interest. Since 2020 we have built the trackers, indexes and investigations that unions, charities, newsrooms and campaigners use to hold power to account. Frontier methods, movement values.
We scrape filings, donations, contracts and the open web, then run LLM entity and link extraction to map who is connected to whom. The output is a graph you can interrogate.
Microsimulation, input-output models and bespoke indices. We turn messy ONS and administrative data into a number that means something and can stand up to scrutiny.
LLM extraction across millions of documents, collapsed into a single queryable dataset. Annual reports, planning records, policy plans: read once, search forever.
Public-facing searchable databases, trackers and indexes. The kind of thing a journalist can use at deadline and a campaigner can cite in a hearing.
We win most of our work through people we already know. If you run a union, a charity, a newsroom or a campaign and there is a dataset you wish existed, send a line. We will tell you straight whether we can build it.