# Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation

> A Bulgarian public-benefit foundation publishing open research, practical methods and free tools for artificial intelligence, industrial systems and energy. Registered in Bulgaria as Foundation (Фондация), UIC 208908769, designated to carry out public benefit activity. Everything published here is free to read and free to reuse with attribution.

## Programmes
- [AI in industry](https://isdifoundation.com/programmes/ai-industry): Practical guidance for applying AI and data to production, operations and organisational decisions, with the limits stated and the evidence shown.
- [AI for energy](https://isdifoundation.com/programmes/ai-energy): How forecasting, anomaly detection and optimisation can improve energy systems, and where those claims tend to outrun the evidence.
- [Energy and renewables](https://isdifoundation.com/programmes/energy-renewables): Independent methods for energy efficiency, photovoltaics and storage, grounded in Bulgarian operating conditions rather than sales assumptions.

## Resources
- [The EU AI Act for industrial organisations: a practical starting point](https://isdifoundation.com/resources/eu-ai-act-industry): Which obligations reach an ordinary manufacturer, how to work out your role under the Regulation, and what to document before anyone asks.
- [Is your operation ready for predictive maintenance?](https://isdifoundation.com/resources/predictive-maintenance-readiness): The data, process and ownership preconditions that decide whether a pilot reaches production — and the honest cases for not starting yet.
- [Before the model: an energy data quality checklist](https://isdifoundation.com/resources/energy-data-quality): Gaps, units, timestamps and drift. What to fix in metering data before any forecasting or optimisation work is worth commissioning.
- [Seven assumptions that change a solar payback calculation](https://isdifoundation.com/resources/solar-payback-assumptions): Irradiation, degradation, self-consumption, tariff structure and discount rate — how each one moves the payback range, with the arithmetic shown.
- [How the Agent Readiness Auditor works](https://isdifoundation.com/resources/agent-readiness-methodology): Every check, every point value, the scoring formula, and why we refuse to score draft standards that no assistant consults.

## Free tools
- [EU AI Act obligations checker](https://isdifoundation.com/tools/ai-act-checker): A guided first-pass assessment of which obligations may apply to an AI system or organisation. Free, private and explicit about its limits.
- [Agent Readiness Auditor](https://isdifoundation.com/tools/agent-readiness-auditor): Checks whether AI assistants and crawlers can read your website — with evidence, not vibes. Scores what agents use today and reports, without scoring, what exists only in drafts.
- [Solar payback calculator](https://isdifoundation.com/tools/solar-payback-calculator): Consumption, roof area and tariff in — an honest payback range out, with every assumption visible on screen rather than buried.

## Organisation
- [About](https://isdifoundation.com/about): mission, how we work, and our statutory objectives
- [Governance](https://isdifoundation.com/about/board): how the Foundation is governed, by role
- [Transparency](https://isdifoundation.com/transparency): registration details and founding documents
- [Contact](https://isdifoundation.com/contact): questions, corrections and partnership enquiries

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