Comply · National frameworks
UK AI guidance (ICO / DSIT, sector-based)
The UK's principles-based, pro-innovation approach.
The UK follows a principles-based, sector-led approach rather than a single AI law. Cross-sector principles — safety and robustness; transparency and explainability; fairness; accountability and governance; and contestability and redress — are applied by existing regulators, with detailed ICO guidance on AI and data protection.
Who it applies to
UK organizations building or deploying AI, overseen by their existing sector regulators (ICO, FCA, MHRA, etc.).
Key obligations
- Apply the five cross-sector AI principles
- Follow ICO guidance on AI and data protection
- Ensure explainability and fairness of AI decisions
- Provide routes to contest and seek redress
How Maetra maps agents to UK AI
Maetra gives UK teams a single control plane to evidence the five principles across their AI estate and to satisfy sector-regulator and ICO expectations.
In practice, Maetra:
- Scans and fingerprints each agent. Discover reads the agent’s code — its tools, data access and sensitivity, actions, model, and environment — into an evidence-backed profile tied to the exact file and commit.
- Decides what applies. That profile determines whether UK AI is in scope for the agent and which of its requirements apply.
- Auto-detects controls and surfaces gaps. Controls your code already satisfies are detected automatically from the scan; the rest become a clear list of gaps, each tied to the requirement and the evidence it still needs.
- Proves it and keeps it current. Close gaps with linked evidence or generated documents — reused across every framework the same control supports — and Maetra re-checks on each rescan and flags evidence that has gone stale.
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Prove UK AI compliance with Maetra
Classify your AI agents once and Maetra maps them to UK AI and every other framework it supports — generating the evidence and documentation, tracking gaps and deadlines, and sealing every decision in an immutable audit trail.