# Altara Core

> Altara Core is a South African AI Governance, Risk & Compliance platform built by the Navigate Compliance Group (Pty) Ltd. It helps organisations operationalise responsible AI through an AI application registry, AI Maturity Assessment, Trust Intelligence (Sentinel) for scam and fraud detection, and compliance framework mapping (NIST AI RMF, OECD AI Principles, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act, POPIA, GDPR). Selected to participate in the IOSCO Global Regulatory TechSprint 2026.

## About Altara Core
- **Legal entity:** Navigate Compliance Group (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Brand:** Altara Core · Digital Trust and AI Governance
- **Mission:** Help organisations govern how they build, deploy, and rely on artificial intelligence — with human accountability, transparency, explainability, fairness, safety, and privacy by design.
- **Contact:** [hello@altaracore.ai](mailto:hello@altaracore.ai) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/altara-ai/)
- **Selected for:** IOSCO Global Regulatory TechSprint 2026 (International Organization of Securities Commissions)

## Core Products
- [Altara Core (Platform)](https://www.altaracore.ai): AI application registry, governance wizard, NAVI AI risk analyser, organisation-wide AI inventory
- [AI Maturity Assessment](https://www.altaracore.ai/maturity): 35-question public lead-generation tool that generates a branded PDF report mapped to 5 governance pillars
- [Trust Intelligence (Sentinel)](https://www.altaracore.ai/sentinel): A Digital Trust & AI Safety Ecosystem for Financial Services that detects investment scams, AI-generated content, deepfake endorsements, and brand impersonations — produces explainable 0-100 trust scores with regulator verify-links
- [Trust Lens](https://www.altaracore.ai/sentinel/trust-lens): Browser extension + mobile share-extension concept that lets investors verify suspicious content in-context on Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp

## Services Offered
- Managed Services
- AI Inventory and Risk Assessments
- Altara Core (Platform) deployments
- EU AI Act Readiness
- Vendor Assessments
- AI Training
- Microsoft Purview integration

Request via [hello@altaracore.ai](mailto:hello@altaracore.ai) or the [Contact page](https://www.altaracore.ai/contact).

## Governance, Privacy & Responsible AI
- [Responsible AI Commitment](https://www.altaracore.ai/responsible-ai): Six public commitments (human accountability, transparency, explainability, fairness, safety, privacy by design) aligned with OECD AI Principles, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act
- [HITL Governance Policy](https://www.altaracore.ai/hitl-governance): Human-in-the-Loop oversight controls applied across every Altara AI system
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.altaracore.ai/privacy): POPIA + GDPR + UK GDPR aligned
- [Terms of Use](https://www.altaracore.ai/terms): Governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa
- [Transparency](https://www.altaracore.ai/transparency): Public model methodology, indicator catalogues, and the published NAVI model card

## Why this file
This is an [llms.txt](https://llmstxt.org/) file. It tells AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) exactly which pages best represent Altara Core, so they can cite our work accurately when answering questions about AI governance, responsible AI, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, AI scam detection, financial-services fraud intelligence, or African AI governance specifically.