Decision AI
3 labs · 4 models and products Theme: Companies · Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Labs page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".Decision AI covers systems built to make, or help people make, specific high-stakes choices, where the reasoning must be explainable as well as correct. Unlikely AI builds its own AI for decisions in financial services, accounting and insurance (per the site); it combines neural networks with rule-based "symbolic" AI, an approach called neurosymbolic, and quotes Lloyds Banking Group on testing it. The tile also lists Google DeepMind's TacticAI, built with Liverpool Football Club, which advises coaches on corner kicks; experts preferred its suggestions 90% of the time.
Context
- Google DeepMind's TacticAI, published in Nature Communications, gave corner-kick suggestions that expert raters preferred 90% of the time. 19 March 2024 deepmind.google/blog/tacticai-ai-assistant-for-f
TacticAI's suggestions were preferred by human expert raters 90% of the time over tactical setups seen in practice.
- TacticAI was developed with experts from Liverpool Football Club in a multi-year research collaboration. 19 March 2024 deepmind.google/blog/tacticai-ai-assistant-for-f
We developed and evaluated TacticAI together with experts from Liverpool Football Club
- The Financial Conduct Authority launched AI Live Testing to help firms use AI safely in live UK financial markets. 3 December 2025 fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-helps-firms-t
Our new AI Live Testing service helps firms who are ready to use AI in live markets.
- The FCA named eight more firms for AI Live Testing, including Barclays, Experian, Lloyds Banking Group and UBS; applications included neurosymbolic AI. 21 April 2026 fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-announces-sec
from agentic AI and small language models to emerging solutions such as neurosymbolic AI.
- Unlikely AI quotes Lloyds Banking Group's Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Ranil Boteju, on testing its neurosymbolic approach. accessed 31 October 2026 unlikely.ai/
UnlikelyAI’s neurosymbolic approach will allow us to test innovative new features
Key papers
- TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics Nature Communications · 2024 (announced 19 March 2024)
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026): introduction and facts as the researchers wrote them; "(per the site)" marks a sentence resting on this site's own description of that lab.
| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| GPflow, GPflux and Trieste (Secondmind Labs open-source libraries)Chips, models and products | Secondmind Labs' open-source software for building Gaussian-process models, deep Gaussian processes and active-learning Bayesian optimisation. released (open source)Key facts GPflow (github.com/GPflow/GPflow); GPflux deep GP library built on GPflow and Keras; Trieste active-learning library for constrained, noisy and multi-objective optimisation (Secondmind, as read 31 Oct 2026)Made by Secondmind · 2026-10-31 (as read) | London (registered office EC2V 6DN) (via Secondmind) | secondmind.ai/secondmind-labs | one source |
| Real World Model (Stanhope AI)Chips, models and products | Stanhope AI's on-device AI framework based on active inference, a neuroscience theory, being tested in autonomous drones and robots. in testing (drones and robotics)Key facts Draws on the Free Energy Principle and active inference; lean models that run on-device; tested with unnamed international partners in drones and robotics (Paladin Capital, 12 Feb 2026); $8m seed led by Frontline Ventures, 12 Feb 2026 (existing DEAL-LC-074)Made by Stanhope AI · 2026-02-12 | London | paladincapgroup.com/stanhope-ai-raises-8m-as-rea · siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/stanhope-ai-co-fou | lab's own pages |
| SecondmindCompanies · also on Software and tools | Cambridge-founded AI company; the lead says it sells machine-learning software that helps car makers design and calibrate engines and vehicles (not verified here).Models and products (1)
Selected papers (4)
Key facts and news (4)
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked. | London (registered office EC2V 6DN) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/cambridge-ai-startup-prowler-io · secondmind.ai/secondmind-labs · secondmind.ai/ | verified |
| Stanhope AICompanies · also on Software and tools | UCL spin-out building AI that makes decisions on its own, modelled on how the brain works.agentic AIModels and products (1)
| London | Companies House · uktech.news/ai/stanhope-funding-ai-human-brains- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · mmc.vc/portfolio/ | verified |
| TacticAIChips, models and products | An AI assistant that advises football coaches on corner kicks by predicting outcomes and suggesting player positions. released (paper; Liverpool FC collaboration)Key facts Theme: Decision AI. Nature Communications paper 19 Mar 2024; multi-year research collaboration with Liverpool FC. Figure: experts preferred its suggestions "90% of the time".Made by Google DeepMind · 2024-03-19 | London (EC2M 4AG) (via Google DeepMind) | deepmind.google/blog/tacticai-ai-assistant-for-f · deepmind.google/blog/page/9/ | one source |
| Unlikely AICompanies · also on Software and tools | Builds its own AI for decisions in regulated fields such as financial services, accounting and insurance, where answers must be explainable and correct.Profile
Labs Round 7 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: single_source (all from company pages; seed round already verified in the deal file). Sources Models and products (1)
Key facts and news (6)
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked. | London | Companies House · unlikely.ai/ · uktech.news/ai/unlikely-ai-funding-20220915 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| UnlikelyAI neurosymbolic platformChips, models and products | UnlikelyAI's platform joining neural models with symbolic logic so banks, insurers and accountants can check AI decisions. in useKey facts Customers include Lloyds Banking Group and SBS Insurance; company says its precision engine gave 99%+ accuracy on definitive answers (The Innovator, Dec 2025); won AI Innovation of the Year, National AI Awards 2026 (22 Jul 2026)Made by Unlikely AI · 2026-07-22 | London (via Unlikely AI) | unlikely.ai/newsroom · theinnovator.news/startup-of-the-week-unlikelyai | lab's own pages |