The data unit of the Autonomy Institute

Data science, pointed at power.

Six data scientists and machine-learning engineers, doing the kind of computational research that used to need a corporate budget. We do it for the public interest instead.

01 / Network analysisWho is connected to whom 02 / Economic modellingWhat the numbers actually say 03 / Document intelligenceReading millions of pages 04 / Tools & data productsFindings you can query

Selected work

We read the filings, the donations, the contracts and the annual reports that no one else has the capacity to read, then turn them into evidence people can act on.

Working since 2020 The ADU is the computational research arm of the Autonomy Institute. We scrape, model and extract with frontier methods (LLMs, supercomputer-scale processing) and movement values. Our clients are unions, charities, newsrooms and campaigners: the AI Security Institute, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Equity, Unite the Union, the ITUC, the Good Law Project and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism among them.

What we do

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Network analysis

We scrape filings, donations, contracts and the open web, then use LLMs to pull out the entities and the links between them. Scattered records become a map of who is connected to whom, and who benefits.

Economic & labour modelling

Microsimulation, input-output models and bespoke indices. We quantify what policy debates assume but rarely measure: landlord profits, regional deprivation, the price of a climate shock.

Document intelligence

LLM extraction across millions of documents: annual reports, job adverts, regulatory filings, transcripts. We tag and classify them into datasets you can actually query.

Tools & data products

Public-facing tools: searchable databases, trackers, indexes. The people who need the findings can use them without a data team of their own.

Project in focus

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Live · 2025 The Authoritarian Stack network map

Network analysis · with the Autonomy Institute

The Authoritarian Stack

We scraped and parsed millions of public pages to map the modern far right and its money: 245 organisations and roughly $45bn in connections, drawn as a single navigable network. The data analysis is ours.

Press pickups, first six months 105and counting

Nov 2025Apr 2026

Open the live map →

Who we are

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A small team inside the Autonomy Institute. You will work with the people who write the code.

Lukas Kikuchi

Lead · ML & data engineering

Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan

Data science · ML research

Sean Greaves

NLP · network analysis

Sonia Balagopalan

Investigations · political data

Luiz Garcia

Economic modelling

Jeremy Kwok

Forecasting · statistics

Get in touch

Have something you need to find out?

adu@autonomy.work

Tell us roughly what you are trying to find out and the shape of the data. We will come back on whether it is a fit and how we would approach it.