Overview

AVERI is a nonprofit standard-setter focused on making third-party auditing of frontier AI systems practical and universal. It conducts pilot audits with leading AI companies, performs technical and policy research, develops open-source tools, formulates industry-wide auditing standards (such as AEF-1), and engages in policy analysis to create demand for rigorous audits. Audits are performed by granting independent verification through access to non-public information and running evaluations (including double-blind pilots) against established standards, with open tools and training shared for broader use. It differentiates itself by its independent philanthropic funding (no cash from frontier AI companies), emphasis on practice-based standards, and collaborative, multi-partner pilots to build verifiable auditing methods, aiming to level the playing field with universal adoption of independent evaluations.