WHY TRUST ALTO
Alto is built safety-first: clinical automation never at the expense of data sovereignty or regulatory compliance.
Safe by architecture, regulated by design.
We don't just meet standards. We build to them.
STANDARDS
CE Class I Medical Device
Registered with the MHRA in Northern Ireland as Software as a Medical Device: rigorous clinical evaluation and post-market surveillance, unlike unregulated black-box AI.
Integrated Management System
A quality management system covering MDR, the EU AI Act, GDPR and DCB clinical requirements: documented, auditable, continuously reviewed.
Independent validation
through academic research partnerships, a clinical advisory board, and ongoing evaluation with Health Innovation Hub Ireland. [Link: Clinical Integrity]
Cyber Essentials Plus certified
Government-backed certification of our technical security controls, independently assessed and held current.
STANDARDS
How we handle data is as important as the data itself.
Zero-training policy
No customer data is used to train our foundational models. Your data stays yours.
GDPR and data sovereignty
Compliant with UK and EU GDPR. Alto acts as a Data Processor; your organisation retains full ownership and control of patient information.
Data minimisation
Only the clinical markers required for vetting, appropriateness and prioritisation are extracted.
Localised Cloud Hosting
AWS Dublin regional infrastructure keeps data within your jurisdiction.
STANDARDS
Transparency at every step.
Dual AI Human-in-the-Loop Architecture
Every output independently audited by the Judge before it influences a recommendation.
Explainable AI
Every recommendation carries transparent reasoning drawn from the referral document. No black-box results.
Built-in Quality Assurance
Every clinical extraction links to its source document: a 1:1 audit trail for the clinician in charge.
Privacy by Design
Data minimisation, purpose limitation and access control embedded at system level.
Field-Level Confidence
A confidence rating on every extraction, making uncertainty visible.
Security layers
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit; role-based access control and MFA; AWS infrastructure with zero-downtime and regional data hosting.
SAFE DEPLOYMENT
The Blackrock Protocol: Algorithmic safety before live deployment.
Every patient cohort has unique edges, so every deployment moves through the same staged validation:
Synthetic data. Our internal medics build realistic referrals and test the system in a controlled environment.
Historic data. Performance measured against the hospital’s own historic referrals.
Shadow mode. Alto runs alongside the existing process on live data, every field checked; nothing is pushed live.
Supported live deployment. Only once shadow mode is signed off do we move to a live, supported deployment.