EthicsGrade
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
EthicsGrade was a UK startup that built AI-driven ESG ratings focused on corporate digital responsibility and AI governance. Founded in 2019 by Charles Radclyffe, the former head of AI at Fidelity, it used natural language processing over public disclosures to score companies on how they governed data and artificial intelligence. Its data was aimed at investors and asset managers wanting to price technology-related ethical risk, and it later added EthicsAnswer, a generative-AI tool that drafts answers to ESG disclosure questionnaires.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Founded
EthicsGrade was founded in London by Charles Radclyffe to close the data gap on corporate digital responsibility and AI governance.
- Ratings debut and accelerators
The company published public ethics ratings of social media companies and graduated from accelerator programs including Nasdaq's ESG-focused accelerator and LHoFT Kickstarter Catapult.
- Future of Finance accelerator
EthicsGrade joined the ABN AMRO + Techstars Future of Finance accelerator and continued expanding its digital-ethics dataset to cover hundreds of companies.
- Generative-AI platform
The company put a GPT-augmented ratings platform live in April 2023 and launched EthicsAnswer, which generates drafted ESG questionnaire responses from public reports and uploaded documents.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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