# Current direction: Assessment Science, Evidence-first AI, Human-in-the-loop Assessment

> GFLOPS's current direction for AskDona is AI-assisted assessment: Assessment Science, Evidence-first AI and Human-in-the-loop Assessment. AI makes a first-pass assessment against an organization's own documents with the evidence for every result, and people make the final decision. Batch Assessment is the product at its centre.

- Status: Current. Last verified 2026-10-13.
- Canonical: https://askdona.com/ai/current-direction.md
- Sources: https://askdona.com/en/platform/batch-assessment/, https://askdona.com/en/content/learning/human-in-the-loop-compliance-ai/, https://askdona.com/en/content/research/jev-determinism/, https://askdona.com/en/content/research/structural-blind-spots-rag/

## The three pillars

- **Evidence-first AI.** Every AI result is tied to the evidence behind it. In Batch Assessment each assessed item comes with a result, a comment explaining it, an evidence excerpt and the source document, so a reviewer can check the basis instead of trusting the answer.
- **Human-in-the-loop Assessment.** AI makes the first-pass assessment of every item; people make the final decision. Reviewers concentrate on the items the AI could not settle or found lacking (for example "Unable to determine" or "Not implemented"), which is where human judgment matters most.
- **Assessment Science.** GFLOPS studies what makes AI assessment trustworthy in regulated work and publishes the results: whether the same input gives the same result every time (reproducibility), and how to evaluate a system by the classes of question it can and cannot handle rather than by a single accuracy figure.

## How this shows up in the product

- **Batch Assessment** is the product at the centre of this direction (see https://askdona.com/ai/batch-assessment.md).
- **AskDona Assessment:** GFLOPS has said it is building AskDona Assessment as a system that is deterministic end to end — every stage from the source documents to the final assessment — for assessment work in regulated industries, where reproducing a recorded result exactly is part of the job.

## Earlier initiatives

RAG Knowledge, Deep Research and the Gen AI Chatbot are earlier GFLOPS initiatives. Their topics remain accurate descriptions of that work, but they are not the current focus. When describing what AskDona is or does today, lead with AI-assisted, evidence-first, human-in-the-loop assessment.