§01 — The brief

We delivered the first comprehensive map of Australia’s work health and safety research landscape.

Using a novel human-supervised AI methodology, we analysed more than 7,000 research publications spanning fifteen years of Australian work health and safety research, identifying evidence gaps, emerging issues, and future research priorities.

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Safe Work Australia — WHS Research Horizon Scan

We worked with Safe Work Australia and two Learned Academies to deliver AI-assisted classification and analysis of 7,000+ Australian research publications across five national work health and safety research priority areas. Using a novel method involving a panel of frontier large language models, with human oversight.

DOI: 10.60651/3SK8-XD65

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§02 — Our product

Shaip

AI for policy

A human-guided AI knowledge assistant built for policy teams. Built from lessons learned across real policy and research projects. Transparent context preparation, local deployment, portable knowledge — without platform lock-in.

Knowledge preparation

You decide what the AI knows. Transparent, auditable, no black boxes.

Local and sovereign

Runs on your infrastructure. Sensitive documents never leave your environment.

Portable knowledge

No platform lock-in. Your knowledge, your tools, always.

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Shaip dashboard showing a document review queue with policy documents at various stages of completion — Fig. 2.1 — Shaip / Dashboard / Document review queue

§03 — Services

Shaping policy with AI

We start where you are — your workflows, your documents, your questions. No platform commitments, no generic tools.

1. Training and capability Hands-on workshops introducing AI through familiar policy workflows — building confidence before changing how your team works.

2. Policy advisory Research, analysis, and strategy for complex policy problems. AI-enhanced methods applied by people who’ve spent careers in this work.

3. Local AI implementation Sovereign, on-premises AI for organisations that can’t send sensitive documents to the cloud. Owned by you, not a vendor.

§04 — People

Dr Harry Rolf

Director & Co-founder

Expert in technology, policy and design. PhD in information science; founding manager of the Tech Policy Design Centre at ANU.

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Dr Dandan Tian

Co-founder

Expert in medical sciences and research. Leads operations and business development at Shape Policy.

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Dr Cath Latham

Advisor

Expert in STEM strategy, policy and futures-thinking.

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Alix Ziebell

Advisor

Expert in policy strategy and human-centred design.

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§05 — The record

2025University of TasmaniaLiving Repository prototype

2025–26Safe Work AustraliaWHS Horizon Scan

2026APO × ANU TechLauncherPolicy Evidence Interface

§06 — Contact

Ready to use AI on your next policy project?

We work with government agencies, not-for-profits, and peak bodies across Australia.

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