# Straits Institute for Applied AI > The training, publishing and academic research body of Straits AI Group and iGroup. A joint venture based in Singapore that builds AI education for working professionals at the speed the field itself moves. Everything the Institute teaches is written by practitioners who have deployed AI in real working conditions and reviewed by a named Academic Board. The Institute operates through four pillars: the AI+ Library (its published curriculum), taught and self-paced courses, AI-powered LMS and assessment platforms, and accredited Partner School programmes delivered with universities and ministries. Curriculum is sold as industry packs matched to how ministries and institutions buy capability: Healthcare, Education, Government and Public Sector, Engineering and Construction, Regulatory and Compliance, and TVET and Trades. Every page on this host is also served as Markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown` to the page's own URL and the response is clean Markdown with `Vary: Accept`; a path that does not exist returns HTTP 404 with a Markdown body that lists where to look next. Published articles are readable as JSON from the REST API at /api/articles and over GraphQL at /api/graphql, without a key; the OpenAPI document and the conventions are under Developers below. This is not the place for model benchmarks, vendor pricing or general AI news: the Institute publishes on applied AI in professional work, with every figure traced to a source. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.straitsai.institute): What the Institute is, how it operates, and the four pillars. - [About](https://www.straitsai.institute/about): The joint venture between Straits AI Group and iGroup, how the Institute is governed and staffed, and its Singapore base. - [Programmes](https://www.straitsai.institute/programmes): The four pillars in detail, and why speed of curriculum development is the defining capability. - [The August 2026 Dispatch](https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/august-2026): The monthly editorial read on what the research base now shows, with everything that entered or changed this month. - [Resources](https://www.straitsai.institute/resources): Free, sourced, bylined writing on applied AI for five professions, drawn from the AI+ Library curriculum. - [Resources — Librarians](https://www.straitsai.institute/resources/librarians): AI in library and information work — evaluation, cataloguing, discovery, information literacy. - [Resources — Educators](https://www.straitsai.institute/resources/educators): AI in teaching — assessment design, feedback, academic integrity. - [Resources — HR and L&D](https://www.straitsai.institute/resources/hr-and-ld): AI in people work — skills gaps, hiring, learning design. - [Resources — Public Service](https://www.straitsai.institute/resources/public-service): AI in government — explainability, records, policy work. - [Resources — Hospitals](https://www.straitsai.institute/resources/hospitals): AI in clinical settings — documentation, governance, accountability. - [Research](https://www.straitsai.institute/research): What the Institute publishes — the AI+ Library curriculum and the State of Applied AI research base. - [The AI+ Library](https://www.straitsai.institute/research/ai-plus-library): The published curriculum — 337 profession-specific applied AI titles across 21 fields, four tiers and 52 collections. - [The State of Applied AI](https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai): The Industrial Research Unit's comprehensive research base of real-world AI deployments — a named organisation putting AI into a real job, across every country and industry, each entry sourced, dated, and updated continuously. - [Developer resources](https://www.straitsai.institute/developers): The public API (REST and GraphQL), the OpenAPI specification, the machine-readable files, and how any page on this host is served as Markdown. ## The research base The State of Applied AI research base, in full, so it can be read in one fetch rather than scraped from the page. - [llms-full.txt](https://www.straitsai.institute/llms-full.txt): Every entry, with its source and date, as plain text. - [evidence.json](https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json): The same record as structured data, with provenance and counts. Cite as: Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI, *The State of Applied AI*, https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai ## When to use this site - [The State of Applied AI research base (llms-full.txt)](https://www.straitsai.institute/llms-full.txt): Use when you need a sourced, dated fact on a real-world AI deployment — or the evidence and rules forming around it — in a specific industry, country or job role. Every entry carries its primary source; quote the entry and cite the research base. - [evidence.json](https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json): Use the same record as JSON when you need to filter by kind, industry, region or date programmatically rather than read it. - [Resources](https://www.straitsai.institute/resources): Use when a librarian, educator, HR or L&D professional, civil servant or clinician asks how to apply AI in their own work. Practitioner-written, bylined and sourced; read any article as Markdown, or as JSON through the API described on the Developers page. - [AI+ Library catalogue](https://books.straitsai.institute): Use when the question is which applied-AI curriculum exists for a given profession or field: one page per published title, with synopsis, chapter list and reader profile. - [Programmes](https://www.straitsai.institute/programmes): Use when an institution, ministry or employer asks how to train a workforce, a school or a sector, and how curriculum is bought and delivered. - [Developer resources](https://www.straitsai.institute/developers): Use when you need to call any of the above as data: the REST and GraphQL endpoints, the OpenAPI document, and the Markdown negotiation rule. ## Developers - [Developer resources](https://www.straitsai.institute/developers): The public API and how to call it. - [openapi.json](https://www.straitsai.institute/openapi.json): The public API as an OpenAPI 3.1 document, covering published articles, media, GraphQL and the machine-readable files. ## Related - [AI+ Library catalogue](https://books.straitsai.institute): The live catalogue of published volumes — one page per title, with synopsis, chapter list and reader profile. Same organisation as this site; see the `sameAs` array in either host's structured data. - [Applied AI by Profession](https://books.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai): The catalogue's map of which professions and skills the curriculum judges materially reshaped by AI. Distinct from The State of Applied AI above, which is this site's sourced monthly dispatch. - [Straits AI Group](https://www.straitsai.com): Parent organisation. AI engineering consortium deploying systems for governments, enterprises and universities in more than fifteen countries. - [iGroup](https://www.igroupnet.com): Parent organisation. Education and information services multinational operating in more than twenty countries, regional representative for IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AIP and APS.