Sustainability
Responsible technology
The systems we build act on behalf of the people who use them. We hold ourselves accountable for how they behave: to our customers, to the Turing Registry and to the public.
This page is being updated to reflect the Turing Registry decision of 19 October 2026 and the measures the company announced on 19 and 27 October. See the company’s statement.
Our principles
- Every autonomous system that TriOptimum operates is licensed with the Turing Registry, and every system we sell is designed so that its operator can license it.
- Every autonomous system we design includes an ethical constraint module, specified and tested before it leaves the Research Laboratories.
- Constraints are structural. No one may disable or modify them without review, approval and a record.
- Every licensed system has a named human contact who answers for it.
- Incidents are reported to the Registry within 72 hours.
What changed in October 2026
- A Chief Systems Integrity Officer, Helen Strand, with company-wide authority over changes to autonomous systems and a direct line to the Board.
- A Board committee on systems safety and licensing, meeting monthly.
- An independent review of maintenance practices for every autonomous system TriOptimum operates or maintains, reporting to the Board. Its conclusions will be published.
- A new section of the Code of Conduct requiring written approval for any change to a system’s constraints, tamper-evident logs, and the declaration of every maintenance channel through which one system can modify another.
Working with independent researchers
We share operating data with independent researchers where we can. In 2024 we supported the Frothly working paper Load-bearing constraints in station-management systems, which drew on five years of records from Citadel Station.