Consequence and Risk Evaluation (CARE)

Consequence scanning is a way for organisations to think about the potential impact of their product or service on people and society. With consequence scanning, organisations will be able to anticipate and address concerns they might have early on in the development cycle, before the final product is shipped.

Through consequence scanning, you consider the potential consequences of what you’re building and document the potential outcomes in order to provide you with the opportunity to mitigate or address potential harms or disasters before they happen.

This interactive tool provides a framework to carry out a consequence scanning activity and generate a risk register that can be downloaded and incorporated into your project planning and governance.

How to use the tool

In order to use the tool you will need to first create an ODI Account. You can then use this to login.

All free accounts are limited to one assessment, while becoming a member of the ODI removes this limitation.

Plans

Use CARE with a free ODI account, or upgrade through ODI membership for more capacity and AI. Enterprise adds organisation licensing, optional custom AI, and integrations.

Plans: Free, ODI Member, Enterprise — grouped by reports, tailored scans and AI, and sharing and integrations
	Free Standard ODI account	ODI Member Active membership	Enterprise Organisation subscription
Final report types and outputs
Evaluations you can own	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Final report outputs (DOCX + JSON + CSV)	✓	✓	✓
Bespoke report templates	—	—	✓
Glossary appendix in reports	✓	✓	✓
AI provenance appendix in reports	—	✓	✓
Tailored scans & AI assistance
AI assistance (suggestions, full assessment, etc.)	—	✓	✓
Live AI reasoning	—	✓	✓
Organisation scan guidance (step help & AI prompts)	—	—	✓
Custom AI provider	—	—	✓
Sharing and integrations
Collaboration with others	✓	✓	✓
Enterprise workspoce and license administraton	—	—	✓
Custom project IDs	—	—	✓
Integration API & automation	—	—	✓

Enterprise plans are agreed with the ODI. Contact the ODI about organisation subscriptions.

Once you login there are two routes through the tool:

Select from example case studies:

Learn how to conduct a consequence scan by working through one of our example case studies and identify consequences, determine risks and plan actions.

Start a new project:

Follow the steps in the interactive tool to carry out a review of your own project and generate a project overview and accompanying risk register.

Supported by AI

AI features use a compatible model via CARE’s integration (see your privacy for the current provider). AI is available once you have ODI membership or an active organisation subscription — it is not enabled on a free account alone.

Where you have access, the AI can help you:

Carry out an automated risk assessment: Provide a detailed description of your project as well as data used and let the AI do a first draft for you of everything from consequenes to actions, giving you a risk regisiter in less that 10 minutes.
Suggest consequences: Both positive and negative, that might arise from your data project, which you can selectively add to your evaluation.
Assess risk: The tool will assess the impact and likelihood of these consequences to help you prioritise and manage risks effectively.
Create actions: The AI will generate specific actions to mitigate and manage identified consequences.
Recommend KPIs: The tool will also recommend key performance indicators (KPIs) for your actions in order to track the effectiveness of your risk mitigation actions.

Please note: Suggestions from the AI assistant are provided for consideration and should be evaluated carefully before the outputs are finalised.