The Institute for AI Translation

Documented honestly, published openly.

The field's failure pattern, cases from the work, and the glossary the discipline works from. Nothing here is presented as this method's success that has not met the Academic Council's standard.

Evidence I · From the wider field

Documented across the field, and rarely technical.

95%

of enterprise generative AI pilots deliver no measurable return

MIT NANDA · 2025

42%

of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17%

S&P Global

80%+

of AI projects fail, roughly twice the rate of comparable non-AI projects

RAND

52%

of workers are worried about AI in their workplace

Pew Research · 2025

The failures are not technology stories. They are stories about people who were never brought along, and the successes are stories about people who were.

Evidence II · Formative cases

Every failure had a human reason. So did every success.

Three cases from clinical and delivery work led by the Institute's founder before its founding, told from the person outward.

  1. Case I · Discovery

    The tool that was never built

    A hospital division asked for a chatbot. The first questions revealed that the real pressure was how work moved between people. The answer became a staffing redesign; the chatbot was never built. The most valuable outcome of a translation is sometimes the instrument it prevents.

  2. Case II · Identity

    Hours returned, meaning at risk

    An automation promised to return ten hours a week to a clinical team. Discovery showed those hours were the human contact that constituted their professional identity. The project was redirected before it dismantled the purpose it was meant to serve.

  3. Case III · Elevation

    A platform that left the team more themselves

    A cancer-care platform held because it was translated, not merely installed: fitted to how clinicians judged, communicated, and cared. What endured was their capacity to care, not a dependency on those who had accompanied them.

Evidence III · Current demonstrations

Country Partnership Forming in Fall 2026

Verified publications: none yet. The standard exists before the claims do, and that order is deliberate. Every engagement is documented truthfully, including what does not work.

How organizations engage

Glossary

Definitions the discipline works from.

These are the words this site uses with a fixed meaning. They are not evidence. They are the vocabulary that lets the evidence be read the same way.

AI Translation (AIT)

The discipline of fitting frontier capability to the conditions, values, and aspirations of a community. Organizations are living systems; they grow in stages. Each stage has its own knowledge, insights, attitudes, qualities, skills, and abilities. Those are what make a more complex application of AI possible. The work is sequenced so each stage prepares the next.

The Institute for AIT

The nonprofit that names the discipline, measures Coordinated Capacity, and publishes what is learned. It gathers insights from every center, produces the standards and frameworks, holds catalytic funding for work that benefits the whole network, facilitates advanced learning through university partners, and publishes openly, holding back no intellectual property. Training and field practice happen through doáb.

Translational Capacity

What the discipline builds: the ability of a community to receive AI well, and keep receiving it well.

Coordinated Capacity

The measurable operational layer of Translational Capacity, scored by the Coordinated Capacity Survey across six dimensions: knowledge, insights, attitudes, qualities, skills, abilities.

Coordinated Capacity Survey

The instrument that measures Coordinated Capacity. Developed with university partners. Taken at the start and at each milestone.

Example use cases

Seventy-five examples of where a ministry of health can start with AI, sequenced across three developmental levels and five tiers of complexity. Also called the AI Translation Developmental Pathway and Use-Case Register.

Capacity

The ability of local people and organizations to decide, deliver, maintain, and learn without permanent outside dependence.

Accompaniment

Working alongside a center, its entrepreneurs, and its cohorts until local leadership can carry the work without outside help.

Developmental milestone

A stage is complete when the knowledge, insights, attitudes, qualities, skills, and abilities it exists to build have appeared, not when a date arrives. Those are what make the next application of AI possible.

Cohort

A locally formed group of practitioners who work the four steps together: measure, form, cycle, return.

Center

The locally owned entity, its own legal body in its country, launched by doáb and accompanied until it stands alone. A member of the cooperative. A hub that builds capacity in three directions: the health ecosystem, the entrepreneurs who serve it, and the people who come to learn.

Fellow

A fellow who is committing time to continue to build capacity is identified. They get access to training as well as experience to build their own skills, abilities, and capabilities, and begin to gain leadership experience in facilitating groups.

Practitioner

They have gone beyond fellows in building and translating the discipline into an experience that can be shared. They are contributing to capturing the insights and to the knowledge being generated locally. They are leading events and meaningful discussions, and are highly engaged in the community as well as with stakeholders.

Preceptor

A practitioner who is gaining enough experience to feel comfortable accompanying fellows through a cycle completely. They have the skills and abilities around mentorship and accompaniment, as well as a breadth of experience understanding the practical applications of AI Translation.

Faculty or Scholar

An individual who is documenting, capturing, publishing, and collaborating with other academic organizations, the insights and learnings occurring within the field, and advancing the standards and qualities of AI Translation locally. They convene cohorts, lead seminars, and participate in training.

Builder

Someone forming a small, purpose-built, locally owned venture. The cooperative holds the shared services; the Builder holds the firm.

Cooperative

The body that centers belong to once launched. Members share services, learning, and infrastructure while keeping their autonomy and ownership. Returns are capped; the value stays where it is created.

Other sources

A history of cooperation that gives hope.

The cooperative form has been demonstrated for two centuries, on six continents. That is historical precedent, not evidence for this method. It is evidence that the form is possible.

Read it on doáb

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