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Governance · Procurement · Trust Evaluation

Structured evaluation, from first read to full governance.

Seven productized services for institutions evaluating AI accessibility technology, each tightly scoped, priced to real procurement thresholds, and designed so every engagement creates a natural next step.

Three instruments, one method

What we publish, and why each one exists

Each instrument has its own site and its own governance; every one is built from primary sources, states its gaps, and makes no claim beyond what its own rubric supports. The services below draw on all three.

Our flagship instrument · now at slatindex.org

The SLAT Index™

Our published trust framework for sign language AI has grown into its own home. It evaluates five trust domains (linguistic, transparency, governance, accessibility, and deployment trust) through 11 criteria and 54 indicators, and its ratings are computed from evidence, not negotiated from marketing.

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Why SLAT?

Because your existing diligence cannot answer the question that matters.

Conformance is not comprehension

An accessibility conformance report certifies that an interface works with assistive technology. It cannot say whether a Deaf person understands the output, and no standard procurement artifact can.

The evidence vacuum is real

Peer-reviewed literature documents that accuracy claims in this market frequently omit what was measured, against what reference, with which signers, under what conditions. SLAT grades the evidence and treats its absence as a finding, never a pass.

Failure lands in high-stakes settings

Hospital intake, emergency notification, classrooms, courtrooms: a failed output is a safety event and a civil rights exposure. Since 2018, the World Federation of the Deaf and WASLI have cautioned against signing avatars as replacements for qualified human interpreters in live, complex, or high-stakes information.

A decision you can defend

Findings are criterion-based, Deaf-reviewed, and documented, written for the people who must defend the purchase to a board, an auditor, or a court.

Productized Engagements

Pricing works two ways here, on purpose. Fixed-scope diagnostics carry set fees, documented and consistent, and priced against public-sector purchasing thresholds; the Trust Snapshot fee is published below, and the full fee schedule is issued on request. Governance-grade engagements are scoped individually, because the governance surface of an AI system that reads, decides, and acts is not the governance surface of a six-policy review.

Trust Snapshot

A short preliminary read of a product’s public claims and evidence: what the vendor asserts, what supports it, and what to ask before proceeding. Priced below common direct-purchase thresholds so you can buy it on your own authority.

$1,500 fixed fee · comparative reviews $2,500 Below the federal micro-purchase threshold ($15,000) and most institutional direct-purchase limits: a department head can buy it on their own authority, no solicitation needed

AI Exposure Scorecard

An organizational review rather than a product one: where AI is already in use across your institution, which tools bypassed procurement, and where accommodation and governance risk sits, with a prioritized remediation sequence.

Scoped engagement Sized to the institution’s AI footprint

Executive Briefing

A structured briefing for boards, commissions, cabinets, and legislative bodies: the taxonomy, the current legal obligations, the procurement risks, and the governance actions, delivered as a written document with presentation.

Fixed fee By audience, customization, and delivery format

Trust Monitor

Recurring surveillance of designated vendors and the surrounding environment: claim changes, product updates, litigation, regulatory movement, and community response. Delivered as a monthly written update with an escalation notice when something material occurs.

Monthly subscription By vendors tracked and reporting depth

Procurement Review & Governance Advisory

Direct support through the purchasing process and the governance that follows it: specification language, evaluation criteria, solicitation review, contract terms, acceptance testing, and standing oversight structures for AI systems whose autonomy, data reach, and decision authority demand them.

Scoped engagement Project work or monthly retainer

Training & Licensing

Workshops, certificate curricula, and licensed toolkits for procurement teams, accessibility offices, and interpreter coordinators, delivered under license with attribution, so your institution can carry the method forward.

Per session and per license Curriculum and licensing sheet on request

Start small. Each engagement qualifies the next, so you escalate only when the evidence warrants it.

Independence, by design

We advise buyers. We do not publish evaluative findings about any organization that has paid us within the preceding twenty-four months, and vendor engagements are private, unrated, and contractually barred from marketing use. All published work discloses funding sources.

How we govern ourselves →
Public buyer?

SAM registration active, UEI on file, NAICS 541611, Minnesota SWIFT supplier registration, W-9 and HECVAT on request, and a sole source justification package prepared for you.

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Our technology brand · auxentia.org

Auxentia

Where the market fails to build, we build. Auxentia ships accessibility-first apps for navigation, daily living, workplace accommodations, and play, and the @learn platform that packages scarce assistive-technology instruction as software. Available to individuals on the App Store and to agencies, schools, and employers through enterprise and seat licensing outside it.

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Start a secure, passwordless consultation from your browser. Message our team directly; every reply is written by a person, supported by AI behind the scenes. Screen-reader friendly, keyboard-operable, with an option to listen.

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