Open for comment · Launched at Submarine Networks World 2026, Singapore
What should AI do for subsea cable permitting?
8 ideas from the industry floor, from the Permitting Agent to a verified data consortium. Mark the ones you want to see happen, and the ones you’d help build. The results are published for open comment, with an eye toward funding from industry sponsors and university research partners.
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- Comment period
- Open
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Tick “I’d like to see this” for ideas the industry needs, and “Count me in” where you’d help build or pilot.
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Step 1 of 2 · The ideas
AI ideas for permitting, open for comment
Mark as many as you like. Counts show how many respondents have backed each idea so far.
- Idea 01
Agent
The Permitting Agent
An AI service that assembles a complete permitting package from verified jurisdictional rules — draft project plan, application forms, and environmental scoping notes — for a given route and landing point.
- Idea 02
Architecture
Three technical paths for a shared rules engine
Every other idea here depends on a trustworthy rules layer. Which foundation should the industry build it on? Pick the one you'd back.
- Idea 03
Governance
Expert validation + open-source permit management tools
Every AI output needs a human expert sign-off before it's trusted — and the tooling around it could be built in the open.
Open source: pros
Less pressure to monetize, invites university and academic contribution, faster trust with regulators.
Open source: cons
Unclear long-term maintenance funding; harder quality control without a commercial owner.
- Idea 04
Regulator tools
Open-source permit issuance + client tool
An open-source tool governments can run to issue permits, paired with a matching client-side tool so applicants and regulators work from the same structured data.
- Idea 05
Agent
Change-detection & alerting agent
Tracks a jurisdiction's permitting timeline against a project's vessel-booking window and flags divergence before it becomes a scheduling crisis.
- Idea 06
Planning
Route & landing-point screening engine
Screens candidate corridors and landing points against a live, verified rule set to surface the combinations worth a full desktop study — addressing the combinatorial explosion of coastal states × restrictions × landing options.
- Idea 07
Standards
Cross-jurisdiction permitting taxonomy
A shared schema mapping every jurisdiction's permitting stages onto common categories, so progress is comparable across borders without requiring legal harmonization.
- Idea 08
Consortium
Verified data consortium (ISAC-style)
Competitors, consultancies, and regulators pool permitting status and corrections under a neutral governance structure — closing the citation and staleness gap no single company can close alone.
- Idea 09
Open
Your idea
What’s missing? A tool, a dataset, a standard, a governance model — tell us what you’d want to see happen.