Dedoctive
Dedoctive is a neuro-symbolic AI platform that grounds answers in validated sources with provenance down to a single table cell and frames AI reasoning inside governed BPMN workflows. Built for document-heavy decisions that must survive an audit.
What is Dedoctive?
Dedoctive is a neuro-symbolic AI platform for building auditable agentic workflows. Its publisher describes it as resting on three pillars: validated knowledge, controlled reasoning and full source provenance. The platform turns documents, data, tables and images into curated knowledge models, verified information tied back to where it came from, and the provenance links run all the way down to an individual table cell or to a detail in the background of an image.
Reasoning is not left loose. Workflows are designed visually in BPMN, so AI steps sit inside an explicit process with human-in-the-loop guardrails, and Response Maps show how a given answer was assembled. The platform works with any LLM, trains no model of its own and claims no dependency on proprietary software, supporting open standards including MCP, ADK, A2A, AG-UI, BPMN, JSON and REST. The home page makes a strong claim, Dedoctive is unable to hallucinate, on the grounds that answers are drawn only from verified sources and that the tool says so when it has no answer. That is the vendor's assertion, not an independently tested result. What has been verified outside the company is narrower: the University of York's Centre for Assuring Autonomy checked that Safety Navigator outputs meet the six GOV.UK data quality dimensions, namely correct, complete, consistent, current, concise and checkable.
The range takes the form of vertical products called Navigators: Safety, RouteMAIT, Crisis, Retrofit, Green Skills, Wellness, Adaptation, Healthcare and Place. Several are still marked in development. Safety Navigator is the flagship, extracting safety arguments into Goal Structuring Notation, generating bowtie diagrams and running compliance audits while highlighting weaknesses. An official UK Ministry of Defence case study, cleared by Dstl, documents that work.
Dedoctive is written and marketed by Collaboration Tools Limited, an award-winning British social enterprise, on behalf of Dedoctive Ltd, and is presented as sovereign UK technology developed with support from the Ministry of Defence, Innovate UK and British charitable funding. A free Developer Edition, an IDE shipped as a Docker image with LLM API keys supplied by the user, is available for hands-on evaluation.
What it does
- Index documents, data, tables and images into a structured, validated Knowledge Model
- Design hybrid BPMN and AI workflows visually in DedoctiveDesigner
- Produce reports, formal diagrams and decision-support outputs with every statement linked back to its source
- Extract safety arguments in Goal Structuring Notation and generate bowtie diagrams
- Assess a system against the policies, regulations and standards that apply to it
- Deploy a workflow as an agent and iterate on it through Dynamic Debugging
- Explore an answer through the Response Map, an interactive mind-map of the sources behind it
When to use Dedoctive / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Dedoctive is the right fit.
When to use Dedoctive
- Safety, risk and assurance professionals who have to produce defensible safety cases and assurance arguments
- Compliance, audit and regulatory affairs teams whose decisions are re-read by auditors, regulators, clients or clinicians
- Duty holders of complex military platforms who must maintain an Authority to Operate after a change
- Insurance, healthcare, supply-chain and public-decision organisations running document-heavy processes where evidence quality is what counts
- Developers and architects who want to compose deterministic BPMN with AI reasoning, starting from the free Developer Edition
When not to use Dedoctive
- Private individuals and consumers: access is restricted to users aged 18 or over, for professional or organisational use, and the terms state the service is not designed as a consumer service
- Teams hoping to replace safety and risk professionals rather than support them, since the publisher states that Safety Navigator does not replace them
- Anyone planning production, regulated, safety-critical, clinical, financial or legal work on the free, beta, trial, workshop or developer tiers, which clause 3.5 of the terms prohibits
- Users who expect the outputs to stand as legal, medical, financial, clinical, engineering, safety or regulatory advice, which clause 6.4 rules out
- Buyers who need published prices, a self-service trial or a mobile app: none exists, and entry runs through a commercial conversation
How to use Dedoctive
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Identify a document-heavy decision process in your organisation that has to stand up to review
- Watch the four introductory videos on the Explainers page (90-second, general, executive and developer cuts) and the Safety Navigator demonstrations on the Navigators page
- Email hello@collaboration-tools.com to ask for the free micro-pilot on that process, or to discuss an enterprise deployment or a partner-led project
- For hands-on evaluation, install Docker, then clone the Developer Edition repository from GitHub or download the zip
- Create a .env file from .env.template, setting ROOT_USER (the single user, authenticated by Google OAuth2), API_KEYS (a JSON list mapping provider and model to your own key) and DEDUCTION_PATH
- Pull the image with docker pull dedoctive/dedoctive-developer-edition:latest, then run ./runDev.ps1 in PowerShell on Windows or start the container from Docker Desktop
- Open http://localhost:4000 on host port 4000 and sign in with the Google account declared as ROOT_USER
- Put your BPMN workflow files in a local folder mounted into the container; a Workflows directory is the recommended layout
- Assemble workflows from UserTasks, ScriptTasks, AgentTasks, DocumentAgent calls and MCP tools, then iterate with Dynamic Debugging
- Follow the official video tutorial series, and embed a Navigator into your own site, process or tool with the free visual designer
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Traceability down to the elementary source, a table cell or a detail in an image, is rare at that level of granularity
- Independent academic verification by the University of York's Centre for Assuring Autonomy against the six GOV.UK data quality dimensions
- An official UK Ministry of Defence case study, cleared for publication by Dstl
- Open standards and a claimed absence of proprietary lock-in, with portability from one LLM to another
- A free developer IDE, self-hosted in Docker with your own LLM keys, plus a free micro-pilot on a real decision process
- On-premises and private cloud options, and automated redaction for sensitive contexts
- An explicit contractual commitment not to train on customer data, Cyber Essentials certification with a published certificate number, and two named founders with publicly verifiable backgrounds
Cons
- No public pricing whatsoever: no pricing page, no rate card, no range
- Seven of the nine Navigators are announced as in development
- A ten-page site with no contact page and no form, a single email address for every subject, and no public technical documentation beyond the GitHub README
- No publicly documented API, even though the terms place APIs within the scope of the service and the site lists REST and MCP among supported standards
- The Developer Edition repository was very young at the time of collection (15 commits, one star, no fork) and its documented installation route leans on Windows and PowerShell
- No availability, response or resolution commitment outside a specific contract (terms, clause 10.1), and no named list of sub-processors
- No mobile app and no self-service trial, and the statement that Dedoctive is unable to hallucinate is an absolute vendor claim that no third party can verify
Pricing & Plans
No price is published. The complete ten-page sitemap contains no pricing page, and the terms of 3 August 2026 refer paid services to a quotation, purchase order, statement of work, subscription agreement or written confirmation, with fees stated exclusive of VAT and invoices payable within 30 days. Free access is nonetheless real and permanent: the Dedoctive Developer Edition is distributed at no charge as a Docker image, the user paying only for their own LLM API keys, and a free micro-pilot is offered on a decision process brought by the prospect. Public site content, demonstrations, workshops, downloadable materials and evaluation tools are also free of charge, on the condition that none of these free tiers is used for production or high-impact decisions. No lowest paid price point can therefore be quoted, in any currency; the only monetary figure in the terms is a liability cap of GBP 100 where no fees have been paid.
- the site has no pricing page at all
- scoped and quoted case by case
- with no published figure
- a free micro-pilot run on a decision process brought by the prospect
- delivery through a partner
- again quoted case by case
- a free IDE distributed as a Docker image
- with the licence in the repository's LICENSE.txt
- Free
- beta
- trial
- workshop and developer access must not be used for production or high-impact decisions (terms
- clause 3.5)
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Dedoctive handles your data.
GDPR overview
The acronym GDPR appears nowhere on the site or in either legal PDF: the documents speak only of “UK data protection law”, so compliance is never claimed in those words. The framework itself is a UK GDPR one. Collaboration Tools Limited, registered in England and Wales under number 06485797, is controller for its own purposes and controller, joint controller or processor depending on the project. The privacy policy of 22 May 2026 lists rights of information, access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, withdrawal of consent and non-submission to certain automated decisions, exercised at hello@collaboration-tools.com. The supervisory authority named is the Information Commissioner's Office. Transfers outside the United Kingdom rely on adequacy regulations, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses; a DPA is signed where UK law requires it. No Article 27 EU representative and no data protection officer is named.
Who owns the data?
Under the terms of service dated 3 August 2026, the customer retains ownership of its Customer Data, defined at clause 5.1 as its data, documents, images, prompts, files, datasets, instructions, configuration and workflow content. The customer grants Collaboration Tools Limited a licence to host, copy, process, analyse, transform, display, transmit and store it, to provide, secure, support, improve and administer the service. Outputs may be used for the customer's internal purposes under clause 7.3. Clause 5.6 lets the publisher withdraw or restrict access in cases of breach, infringement, security risk or legal obligation. Depending on the project it acts as controller, joint controller or processor, as the contract or DPA settles.
Reuse rights
Customers may use the outputs generated through the service for their internal purposes without asking further permission (terms, clause 7.3). On the publisher's side the position is restrictive by default: the privacy policy of 22 May 2026 states that neither customer data nor personal data is sold, and that customer project data is not used to train public AI models or the publisher's own general-purpose models, while clause 5.5 of the terms commits that Customer Data will not be used to train general-purpose foundation models or third-party AI models. Two carve-outs are stated: anonymised or aggregated information may be used to improve the service, and anonymised, permitted lessons from workshops and pilots may be reused in examples and teaching material without identifying the customer (clause 11.4). Personal data in prompts and knowledge fragments sent on to AI services is minimised. Legal bases are set purpose by purpose - legitimate interests, contract, legal obligation, and consent for marketing where required - and the publisher states that it takes no solely automated decision producing legal or similarly significant effects on visitors, prospects or customers. Recipients are described by category only: hosting, cloud, email, calendar, CRM, analytics, security, accounting, backup and support providers, professional advisers, project partners and funders, and public authorities.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting country or region is named, either on the site or in the legal documents. The privacy policy of 22 May 2026 states only that some service providers may process personal data outside the United Kingdom, with safeguards: adequacy regulations, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, or the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses. Hosting and cloud infrastructure providers are described by category and never named. Security rests on technical and organisational measures, including access controls, authentication, encryption where appropriate, secure backups, supplier vetting and separation of customer project data where required, and the company holds Cyber Essentials certification. Third-party cloud can be avoided altogether: the home page offers on-premises or private cloud deployment where needed, or an automated redaction mechanism preventing open transmission to cloud services. One network observation, which is not a declaration by the publisher: the domain resolves to 217.160.0.223, geolocated in Frankfurt, Germany, on AS8560 IONOS SE. That is the WordPress marketing site, and it says nothing about where the platform itself runs.
Where Dedoctive works
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Dedoctive.
- With no published price, nothing can be budgeted or compared without entering a sales conversation first
- Check who you are actually contracting with: intellectual property is spread across Collaboration Tools Limited, Dedoctive Ltd and third-party licensors (terms 1.3 and 7.1), clause 18.2 lets the publisher assign its rights and obligations to Dedoctive Ltd, a subsidiary or a buyer, and the only published contact address sits on collaboration-tools.com rather than on dedoctive.ai
- Free, beta, trial, workshop and developer environments are supplied as is (clause 13.2), carry no availability, response or resolution commitment outside a specific contract (10.1), cap liability at GBP 100 where nothing has been paid (14.3), and must not receive sensitive, patient-identifiable, classified or export-controlled data (5.4)
- Backups of Customer Data are the customer's own responsibility unless otherwise agreed (clause 10.3)
- No hosting country is stated and no sub-processor is named; recipients are described by category only, which limits any independent assessment of the data chain
- Seven of the nine Navigators are marked in development, so confirm that the product you are buying actually exists today rather than on a roadmap
- A tool presented as unable to hallucinate invites over-trust, and over-trust is where human judgement quietly erodes: the provenance links exist to be opened and read, the publisher itself says Safety Navigator does not replace safety and risk professionals, and the terms say the outputs are not professional advice. Treat them as evidence to check, not as a verdict
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Difficulty depends entirely on the route. Commercially there is none: you email the publisher and the micro-pilot is run for you, with no client-side installation. The free Developer Edition is a developer-grade setup, with Docker required, an image pulled from Docker Hub, a .env file to compose, PowerShell on Windows, a Google account for the single OAuth2 ROOT_USER, and your own LLM API keys supplied as JSON. Designing workflows in BPMN is visual but assumes process modelling skill. Video tutorials and a tutorials PDF are provided, and embedding a Navigator into an existing site is presented as straightforward.
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Behind Dedoctive
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Frequently asked questions
What is Dedoctive?
How does it deal with hallucinations?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free version?
Is my data used to train models?
Who owns the data I upload?
Can I run it on my own infrastructure?
What independent evidence is there?
Who publishes Dedoctive and how do I get in touch?
Should you pick Dedoctive?
Dedoctive occupies a deliberate niche: it puts auditability ahead of versatility. Where a general-purpose assistant is judged on breadth, this platform is judged on whether every statement can be traced back to a validated source and every reasoning step placed inside a governed BPMN process. For assurance, safety, compliance, risk and public-sector work, that is an unusual and genuinely useful proposition.
The external evidence is stronger than the marketing. The University of York's Centre for Assuring Autonomy has verified Safety Navigator outputs against the six GOV.UK data quality dimensions, the UK Ministry of Defence has published a case study cleared by Dstl, and the company holds Cyber Essentials certification. The contractual position is equally clear: the customer owns its data, and the publisher commits in writing not to train foundation or third-party models on it.
The reservations are just as concrete. The site is thin, ten pages with no contact form, no pricing page and no API documentation, and pricing is entirely opaque, so nothing can be budgeted without a sales conversation. Seven of the nine Navigators are marked in development, which means much of the advertised range cannot be delivered today; Safety Navigator and Retrofit Navigator are the most advanced. The publisher is a small British social enterprise with two identified founders, which cuts both ways: accountability is visible, scale is not. And the claim that Dedoctive is unable to hallucinate is the vendor's own absolute statement, unverifiable from the outside.
The sensible way in costs nothing. Pull the free Developer Edition, build a workflow against a real document set and judge the provenance for yourself; if it holds up, ask for the free micro-pilot on a decision process that matters. Commit to an enterprise deployment only once you have seen the Navigator you need actually working.
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