What Dr Albert is
A local, source-grounded civic intelligence prototype developed by X7. It answers from approved documents, cites its sources, and says so plainly when it does not have enough information.
Reports
Public materials
Materials are published here only after claims, sources and the public/private boundary have been reviewed. The overview below is public-safe; deeper reports are available on controlled request.
Public-safe overview · last reviewed 2026-06-28 · not an official Cardiff Council service.
Capability & status overview
An honest, plain summary of what Dr Albert is and what is verified today.
Verified now
The local retrieval-augmented runtime has been restored and verified as a sovereign prototype. The current verified live-proof baseline is the Singapore benchmark.
Cardiff corpus status
Cardiff material is being assembled and verified toward full council-domain coverage. We describe this status plainly and never present staged material as a finished, live service.
Sovereignty
AI inference and retrieval run locally on X7's own hardware. No private or Cardiff data is sent to a public cloud model, and local operation has been rehearsed with the network link pulled.
Human in the loop
Dr Albert is decision-support, not a decision-maker. Every output is meant to be reviewed by a person before it informs a decision.
Public / private boundary
This public website is static and never connects to live retrieval. The council application is private, access-controlled and department-filtered. See Boundary.
Report library
Formal reports are released only after a public-copy and claims review.
Infuse capability report
A fuller capability report for evaluators and civic partners. Released after final public-copy review — request a copy below.
Public/private boundary statement
How the public and private surfaces are separated, and what the public site will never do. Read it →
Pilot summary
A one-page pilot summary, prepared once demo examples and source citations are approved.