Today we’re publishing v0.1.0, the first public release of Policai.
Policai is an open-source tracker for Australian AI policy and governance developments. The goal is simple: make it easier to follow how AI policy is emerging across Commonwealth, state, and territory governments without having to piece it together from scattered departmental websites, consultation pages, and policy PDFs.
What is Policai?
Policai aggregates, analyses, and visualises policy activity across every Australian jurisdiction. It covers legislation, regulation, guidelines, frameworks, and standards related to artificial intelligence, then presents that information in a form that is easier to search, compare, and explore.
This first release is the foundation: a working public tracker, a structured policy dataset, and the tooling needed to keep that dataset moving.
What's in v0.1.0
v0.1.0 includes the core product surface and the first pass of the ingestion workflow behind it.
Searchable policy records
The main experience is a searchable browser of Australian AI policies. You can filter records by jurisdiction, policy type, and status, then open individual policy pages for summaries, source links, tags, and related material.
Multiple ways to explore the data
The release includes an interactive map of Australia for jurisdiction-based browsing, plus supporting views such as the agencies directory, framework visualisation, and policy network page. The aim is to make the same dataset useful from different angles rather than forcing everything into a single list.
AI-assisted policy ingestion
Policai currently monitors eight Australian government sources for new AI-related policy material. New pages are fetched, analysed for relevance, and then either pushed forward automatically at high confidence or queued for review when the result is less certain. That gives us a practical balance between automation and editorial control.
Admin workflow for review and operations
Behind the public site, there is an admin workflow for running scrapers, reviewing pending findings, managing sources, and operating the pipeline. This release is not just a front end; it is the start of the internal machinery required to keep the tracker current.
System dark mode support
Policai also ships with system-level dark mode support across the application, so the interface stays usable in longer research sessions and lower-light environments.
The blog itself
And yes, this blog is part of the release. We’ll use it for product updates, source coverage announcements, and occasional commentary on meaningful AI policy developments in Australia.
Why this matters
Australian AI policy is evolving quickly, but the information environment is fragmented. Relevant material is spread across different jurisdictions, agencies, consultation processes, guidance documents, and program pages. Even when the documents are public, the discovery work is not trivial.
Policai is our attempt to reduce that friction. The immediate value is not perfect completeness. It is a clearer starting point for researchers, practitioners, journalists, public servants, and anyone else trying to understand what the Australian AI policy landscape actually looks like.
Open source
Policai is open source, and that is intentional. We want the tracker to be inspectable, reusable, and improvable in public. If you want to review the code, suggest fixes, or contribute new ideas, the repository is the right place to start.
What’s next
The next phase is straightforward:
- expand source coverage across more federal and state bodies
- improve the quality and reliability of the AI analysis and verification pipeline
- strengthen the public-facing browsing experience as the dataset grows
- keep refining the visualisations so they are genuinely useful, not just decorative
v0.1.0 is an initial release, not a finished product. But it is enough to put the project in public, start tracking the landscape in earnest, and improve the system in the open.