# AI Coalition Network > AI Coalition Network is an independent research and education organisation that ranks AI companies on ethics, publishes plain-language guides to AI governance and policy, maintains AI ethics guides for every US county and for countries worldwide, and runs professional AI certification programmes for regulated industries. Independent and non-commercial in its research: the guides, rankings and geographic coverage below are published free and are not sponsored placements. The certification programmes are paid products, and are labelled as such. Last generated: 2026-08-11 (regenerate with `php artisan llms:generate`). ## Citing this site - Attribute to "AI Coalition Network" and link the specific page URL, not the home page. - Every research guide carries a "Last verified" date and a Sources section listing the primary sources behind its claims. 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It returns only what is already public on the site. ## About and editorial policy - [About us](https://ai-coalition.net/about): Who we are and what the organisation exists to do. - [Ranking methodology](https://ai-coalition.net/methodology): How companies are scored on profitability, ethics and innovation. - [Editorial policy](https://ai-coalition.net/editorial-policy): How content is researched, reviewed and dated. - [Corrections policy](https://ai-coalition.net/corrections): How to report an error and how corrections are recorded. - [Contact](https://ai-coalition.net/contact): How to reach the editorial team. - [Privacy policy](https://ai-coalition.net/privacy): How user data is collected, stored and used. - [Terms of service](https://ai-coalition.net/terms): Platform rules and legal terms. ## Research guides — AI ethics, governance, policy and compliance Plain-language, vendor-neutral explainers and comparisons. Each carries an author, a last-verified date and a list of primary sources. - [All guides](https://ai-coalition.net/learn): browse by topic, with keyword search. ### AI Agents - [Agent-Ready: What Changes When Your Customer Is Software](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/agent-ready): A share of the people evaluating you now arrive as software acting on someone’s behalf. Most of what that requires is unglamorous, and the parts vendors sell hardest are the parts that matter least. (last verified August 2026) - [How to Make a Website Readable by AI Agents](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/website-for-ai-agents): Most advice about "AI-agent-ready websites" is written by people selling something. This is what actually changed when we did it to our own site, what it cost, and the one mistake that would have quietly undone the rest. (last verified August 2026) - [llms.txt: What It Is, and Whether You Need One](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/llms-txt): llms.txt is cheap to produce and unproven in effect. The part nobody warns you about is the failure mode: a hand-written one drifts, and a file whose whole job is telling a model what exists is actively harmful when it is wrong. (last verified August 2026) ### AI Compliance - [An AI Compliance Checklist That Names Its Sources](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-compliance-checklist): Every item here says which instrument requires it, and whether that instrument is a law, a voluntary framework, or nobody in particular. That distinction is the whole point — a checklist you cannot trace is a list of someone else’s opinions. (last verified August 2026) ### AI Ethics - [Human Oversight That Is More Than a Rubber Stamp](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/human-oversight): “A human reviews it” appears in nearly every AI policy and is true in far fewer systems. The reasons it fails are well documented, predictable, and almost entirely about how the work is arranged rather than who is doing it. (last verified August 2026) ### AI Governance - [AI Governance: What It Is, and What It Actually Requires](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-governance): AI governance is not a document, a committee, or a platform. It is the answer to a specific question: when something goes wrong, who was accountable, and what were they meant to have checked? (last verified August 2026) - [AI Vendor Risk Assessment: A Buyer’s Checklist](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-vendor-risk-assessment): Most AI vendor questionnaires are published by vendors, which means they ask the questions vendors are comfortable answering. This one is written from the buyer’s side, and flags which answers should end the conversation. (last verified August 2026) - [Building an AI System Inventory (When Nobody Procured Most of It)](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-system-inventory): Every framework tells you to inventory your AI systems. None explains the actual problem: most of them never went through procurement, so your contract list will not find them, and asking the wrong way guarantees wrong answers. (last verified August 2026) ### AI Industry - [The AI Company Landscape](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-companies): "AI company" describes six businesses with almost nothing in common — a chip designer and a vertical SaaS product share a label and no economics. The layer a company occupies determines its leverage, its risk, and which ethics questions can sensibly be asked of it. (last verified August 2026) ### AI Security - [Prompt Injection: Why It Happens and What Actually Stops It](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/prompt-injection): Prompt injection is the top vulnerability in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and the most misunderstood. It is not a bug that gets patched — it follows from how language models work. Here is what that means for anything you deploy. (last verified August 2026) - [Securing AI Systems and Agents](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-security): "AI security" covers four unrelated problems, and the one most people mean depends on which kind of AI they actually run. Predictive models and generative models are attacked in genuinely different ways — NIST maintains two separate taxonomies for exactly that reason. (last verified August 2026) ### AI Workforce - [AI Skills, Roles and Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-skills): There is no such thing as "the" AI certification. There are four distinct families of credential aimed at four different jobs, and the most credible ones are not entry points at all — they are add-ons to a professional certification you already hold. (last verified August 2026) - [Do AI Certifications Matter? An Honest Assessment](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/do-ai-certifications-matter): We sell AI certifications, which is exactly why this needs saying plainly: most AI certifications are worth less than their marketing implies, ours included, and there are situations where the right decision is to spend the money elsewhere. (last verified August 2026) - [Who Should Own AI Risk in Your Organisation?](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/who-owns-ai-risk): The question stalls because three different responsibilities travel under one name. Separate them and the answer is usually obvious — and usually does not require inventing a new job title. (last verified August 2026) ### Bias, Fairness & Inclusion - [Why You Can't Satisfy Every Fairness Metric (The Impossibility, Explained)](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-fairness-metrics-impossibility): Someone always asks for a model that is "just fair." The uncomfortable, well-documented truth is that fairness metrics can mathematically contradict each other. Here's what the impossibility theorem actually says, illustrated without heavy math, and what teams should do once they accept it. (last verified July 2026) ### Ethical AI Fundamentals - [What Is Responsible AI? Principles, Practices, and Why It Matters](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/what-is-responsible-ai): Responsible AI is the operational discipline of identifying, managing, and owning AI risk — distinct from (but related to) AI ethics, governance, and trustworthy AI. Here's what the term actually means and how organizations put it into practice. (last verified July 2026) ### Governance & Compliance - [NIST AI RMF vs ISO/IEC 42001: Which Do You Need?](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/nist-ai-rmf-vs-iso-42001): NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 answer different questions, and most organizations end up needing elements of both. Here is a neutral, decision-oriented comparison of cost, certifiability, and scope. (last verified July 2026) ### Government AI - [AI Policy for Local Government: A Starting Framework](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/local-government-ai-policy): Counties and cities are being asked whether staff may use AI, usually by someone who already is. Federal AI rules do not apply to you — here is what does, and what a workable first policy contains. (last verified August 2026) - [Colorado Repealed Its AI Act. What SB 26-189 Replaced It With](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/colorado-ai-act-sb-26-189): The 2024 Colorado AI Act was the most-cited state AI law in the country. It no longer exists. Here is what replaced it, why two different effective dates are circulating, and which one applies to you. (last verified August 2026) - [Federal AI Policy: What Actually Binds an Agency](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/federal-ai-policy-2026): Most coverage of federal AI policy blurs four different kinds of instrument into one. Only one of them sets deadlines — and because it counts in days rather than dates, published summaries of those deadlines disagree with each other. (last verified August 2026) - [Selling AI to the Federal Government: What Procurement Now Asks For](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/government-ai-procurement): Federal AI policy is mostly directional. Procurement is the exception: two OMB memoranda impose real obligations on agencies, and those obligations reach vendors through the contract. Here is what buyers are now required to ask you for. (last verified August 2026) - [The EU AI Act Timeline After the Digital Omnibus](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/eu-ai-act-timeline): “The EU delayed the AI Act” is the headline, and it is wrong in three specific ways. Two obligations were not delayed, two new prohibitions were added, and the enforcement structure changed. Here is the actual timeline. (last verified August 2026) - [The State AI Law Map: What Is in Force, and When](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/state-ai-laws): Most state AI law round-ups are alerts that were accurate on the day they were written and have never been revisited. This one is dated, marks which claims rest on statutory text, and corrects one widely repeated error about the Texas safe harbour. (last verified August 2026) ### Organizational Implementation - [How to Stand Up an AI Governance Committee](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/ai-governance-committee): You don't need an enterprise compliance department to govern AI responsibly. This step-by-step guide shows small and mid-size organizations how to define scope, pick the right members, write a charter, and add lightweight tools like an AI inventory and risk tiering. (last verified July 2026) ### Transparency & Explainability - [Explainable AI: Methods, Limits, and When It's Required](https://ai-coalition.net/learn/explainable-ai): Explainable AI covers a specific toolkit, not a guarantee of full transparency. Here is what SHAP, LIME, and mechanistic interpretability can and can't tell you, and when an explanation is a legal requirement rather than a nicety. (last verified July 2026) ## Professional AI certifications Paid, profession-specific programmes on applying AI to regulated professional work. Certificates are issued by AI Coalition Network and carry no claim of external recognition or continuing-professional-education value. - [All certifications](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications): every track. - [Master AI Lawyer Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/malc): Become the AI-Enabled Attorney of Tomorrow — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/malc/curriculum). - [Master AI Accountant & CPA Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/maac): Transform Accounting with Artificial Intelligence — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/maac/curriculum). - [Master AI Insurance Agent Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/maiac): Lead the Future of Insurance with Artificial Intelligence — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/maiac/curriculum). - [Master AI Real Estate Agent Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/marec): Transform Your Real Estate Business with Artificial Intelligence — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/marec/curriculum). - [Master AI General Contractor Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/ma-gcc): Build Smarter. Manage Better. Lead Construction with AI. — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/ma-gcc/curriculum). - [Master AI Landscaper Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mailc): Grow Smarter. Work Efficiently. Lead Landscaping with AI. — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mailc/curriculum). - [Master AI Medical Practice Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mampc): Modernize Healthcare Operations with Responsible AI — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mampc/curriculum). - [Master AI Dental Practice Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/madpc): Build a Smarter, More Efficient Dental Practice with AI — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/madpc/curriculum). - [Master AI Manufacturing Company Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mamc): Build Smarter Factories. Improve Operations. Lead Manufacturing with AI. — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mamc/curriculum). - [Master AI Small Business Owner Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/ma-sboc): Run Smarter. Grow Faster. Lead Your Business with AI. — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/ma-sboc/curriculum). - [Master AI Marketing Agency Certification](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mamac): Create Smarter Campaigns. Deliver Better Results. Lead Marketing with AI. — [curriculum](https://ai-coalition.net/certifications/mamac/curriculum). ## AI ethics by place Original coverage: a distinct AI ethics guide for 3,145 US counties across 51 states and territories, 200 countries and 55 economic regions. Each US county is assigned exactly one primary ethical angle — the local concern most relevant to it — so the pages address different questions rather than repeating one template. The angles in use are: agricultural innovation, criminal justice, economic development, environmental justice, healthcare equity, housing fairness, small business, student protection, veterans military, workforce transition. - [All US counties](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/counties): grouped by state, filterable by angle. - [State hub](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/states/{state-slug}): every county in one state. Example: https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/states/texas - [County guide](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/counties/{state-slug}/{county-slug}): full guide with FAQs, economic profile and structured data. Example: https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/counties/texas/harris-county - [Global hub](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/global): countries and economic regions. - [All countries](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/global/countries) · [country guide](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/global/countries/{country-slug}) - [All economic regions](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/global/regions) · [region guide](https://ai-coalition.net/ai-ethics/global/regions/{region-slug}) ## Local AI hubs (separate hosts) Each is a distinct subdomain covering one place, carrying locally verified organisations, government AI policy and training obligations for that market. Each host serves its own robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt and a JSON summary at /api/v1/public/market. Only markets that have passed a published quality threshold appear here; the rest are not publicly reachable. - [Texas](https://texas.ai-coalition.net/): Texas governs AI through a single state statute enforced exclusively by the Attorney General, with an affirmative defence that turns on documented internal review rather than on ce... - [Austin, Texas](https://austin.ai-coalition.net/): Austin is the seat of Travis County and the home of the state agency that writes Texas AI rules. Its city council adopted a Human in the Loop policy requiring human review and disc... - [Dallas, Texas](https://dallas.ai-coalition.net/): Dallas anchors the northern half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and is at an earlier stage of municipal AI governance than its neighbours: the city council has considered AI ad... - [Fort Worth, Texas](https://fortworth.ai-coalition.net/): Fort Worth has the best-documented municipal AI governance in Texas. Its Department of Internal Audit published a full audit of the city own AI use in February 2026, covering eight... - [Houston, Texas](https://houston.ai-coalition.net/): Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the centre of Harris County, whose Commissioners Court adopted binding generative AI guidelines in 2023. This page track... - [San Antonio, Texas](https://sanantonio.ai-coalition.net/): San Antonio has made the largest single teaching investment in AI of any Texas metro. UTSA opened its College of AI, Cyber and Computing in September 2025, siting it downtown insid... ## Company directory, rankings and jobs - [All companies](https://ai-coalition.net/companies): 13 verified AI companies, filterable and searchable. - [Rankings](https://ai-coalition.net/rankings): companies ranked overall and by profitability, ethics and innovation, with trend data. - [Company profile](https://ai-coalition.net/companies/{slug}): scores, ethics statement, posts, jobs and products. - [AI jobs](https://ai-coalition.net/jobs): 11 open roles. - [Store](https://ai-coalition.net/store): course enrolments and other products. ## Not intended for crawling or citation These are authenticated, transactional or internal, and are disallowed in robots.txt: - `/admin/*` — internal admin. - `/dashboard, /profile, /api-token` — authenticated user areas. - `/login, /register, /email/*` — authentication flows. - `/store/cart, /store/checkout, /store/orders` — transactional pages. - `/certification/learn/*` — paid course content, available only to enrolled students. - `/companies/*/products, /posts, /sales, /jobs/create, /paypal-settings` — company management screens. - `/livewire/*` — internal component endpoint. ## About this file Follows the [llms.txt convention](https://llmstxt.org/). It is generated from the live database, so the counts and listings above reflect what is actually published rather than what was true when someone last edited the file by hand. It is a convenience index, not a substitute for robots.txt, the sitemaps or the structured data on each page — all of which remain authoritative.