SN Probity · Submission integrity for government

Can your agency rely on every submission it receives?

The problem

Government decisions rest on what people submit: comments on a public consultation, grant applications, tenders. Each one is taken to come from a real person or organisation, saying what they actually think or can actually deliver.

That can no longer be assumed. AI can now produce thousands of distinct, plausible submissions for a few dollars, each worded differently enough to pass a duplicate check. Organised campaigns can attach real people's names to views those people never held. And a submission written entirely by a person can still cite studies, figures or credentials that do not exist.

This has already happened. A New York Attorney General investigation into a US Federal Communications Commission consultation found millions of fake comments, many lodged under real people's names without their knowledge, using software built to give every comment different wording.

For an agency, the risk runs both ways. Count a manufactured campaign, and a decision rests on evidence that was fabricated. Discount a genuine one, and lawful public participation has been silenced.

What is SN Probity?

SN Probity is patent-pending software, designed and built in Australia by 01Mind for Australian agencies facing this growing problem. It runs nineteen independent checks on each submission and gives it a score out of 100: how far the evidence supports relying on that submission. The lower the score, the more closely an officer should look at it, and the finding says why.

What SN Probity does

SN Probity examines each submission, not just the batch, and asks three questions of it:

• Authorship: was it genuinely written by the person or organisation it says it was?
• Coordination: is it part of an organised campaign?
• Verifiability: are its claims, citations and credentials real?

For every submission, it gives your officers a graduated finding with the evidence behind it. It never delivers a verdict and never accuses anyone. Your officers make the decision; SN Probity makes sure that decision rests on what was actually measured.

Built for how government works

• Coordination is not fraud. Organised advocacy is lawful participation. SN Probity reports coordination as an observation about a docket, and treats it as a concern only when it comes with a separate sign of deception. A union or community campaign is never treated as an attack.
• It runs inside your environment. All analysis happens on infrastructure you control. No submission, finding or report leaves your environment.
• We hold none of your data. SN Probity keeps scores and findings, never the submissions themselves: the text of a submission, and the names and addresses on it, are used to assess it and then discarded, never written to disk. When you close a docket, everything held under it is destroyed. Nothing about your submissions is ever sent to us. The only thing an installation sends 01Mind is a short weekly licence check-in, and the console shows you exactly what it contains. Three optional checks that confirm a cited source or a registration exists send only that reference number, and stay off unless you turn them on.
• Every decision is recorded. Each finding records what was measured, what could not be, and why: a record you can stand behind if a decision is questioned.
• Nothing is hidden. Where something could not be measured on a submission, the officer is told. A gap is never passed off as a clean result.
• It learns from your officers. When an officer records that a finding was wrong, SN Probity adjusts, within fixed limits, so it fits your own intake over time.
• Simple to buy. An annual licence set by organisation type, with any number of users, and no charge per submission, ever.

Who it is for

Commonwealth departments and agencies, state and territory agencies, and local councils running public consultations, grant rounds and procurements.

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