The AiRE Council

Decades of discovery behind every target.

AiRE is led by senior exploration geologists with multi-decade records of real discovery across five continents. Dr. Amit Tripathi governs the process, and a named, qualified senior geologist signs every verdict - in person, every time. AI gives them tireless reach - scoring, citing and stress-testing every target before it ships - but the judgment, and the signature, are always theirs. The model shows its work; your geologist makes the call.

The signature is always human.

The human bench

The named specialists behind every gate.

These are the people whose judgment and discovery record sit behind every gate below. The bench spans five continents, with on-the-ground leads in AiRE's actual operating regions - Guinea, Niger, DR Congo and Uganda.

Economic geology & standards

Dr. V.N. Vasudev Economic Geology - 45-year veteran; discovered multiple +1 Moz gold deposits. India Signs at G4
Prof. Bhabesh C. Sarkar Resource Evaluation & Geostatistics - IIT Bombay professor; 45+ years; 128+ publications. India Signs at G4
Roisin Goodman Exploration - 36 years; NI 43-101 compliance specialist. Ireland Signs at G4

Geophysics

Krishna Prasad Geophysics - 22 years; EM, gravity, seismic methods. India

Remote sensing & GIS

Dr. Vikas Srivastava Remote Sensing & GIS - 14 years. India

Structural geology

N. Ganesh Structural Geology - structural mineralization controls. India

Resource modeling

Dolma Ray Resource Modeling - 3D modeling & geostatistics. India

Field discovery & exploration

Mamadouba Yansane Geology - 23 years; explored major iron-ore deposits. Guinea
Chris Ainsworth Exploration - 33 years in African mining; led a major bauxite exploration program. South Africa Signs at G4
Richard Hornsey Ni-Platinum Exploration - sulphide & PGM economic geologist; Lonmin veteran. South Africa Signs at G4
Niki Kiza Oliver Geology - gold exploration across Africa. DR Congo

Mining

A.P.S. Chandi Mining - 34 years underground mining; Mine Manager's Certificate. India

Senior geology

Ibrahim Aouami Senior Geologist - 17 years; uranium & laterite exploration. Niger

Operations & country leadership

Timothy Kwihangana Country Director, Uganda - on-ground operations lead. Uganda
Ankit Tripathi General Manager - environmental scientist; operations & client engagement. AiRE

The accountability spine

A target passes through every gate, or it does not ship.

Read top to bottom. Beneath each gate, an agentic-AI process does the tireless, gated labour; where it matters most, a named human signs the verdict on top. The technology is inseparable from the people it serves - and the chain ends at a gate with no AI in it at all.

The broader human disciplines - geophysics, remote sensing, structural geology, resource modeling and field discovery - calibrate the evidence the platform scores and the deposit models it is run against. Their authority is what makes the gated process credible in the first place.

G1 Specification The brief is turned into binary, testable acceptance criteria before a line of code runs.

AI labour at this gate

Specification Lead Turns the brief into binary, testable acceptance criteria - an intent is never accepted as a requirement.
G2 Code quality Every conclusion is attacked before it is trusted, behind a wall of over 220 regression tests - so every release reproduces the same answer on the same data.

AI labour at this gate

QA & Security Lead Tries to make every conclusion fail; author of the 220+ regression-test wall. No defect escapes twice.
Lead Developer Builds the platform and its modules to the signed specification - clean, tested, maintainable.
G2.5 Integration Correctness at the seams, where individual unit tests fall silent.

AI labour at this gate

Integration Lead Demonstrable correctness at the seams between data sources - "the data looks reasonable" is not an answer.
G3 Domain review - geology & literature No weight ships without its citation. This verdict is signed by named human economic geologists.

Human sign-off - the verdict is theirs

Dr. V.N. Vasudev Economic Geology - 45-year veteran; discovered multiple +1 Moz gold deposits.
Prof. Bhabesh C. Sarkar Resource Evaluation & Geostatistics - IIT Bombay professor; 128+ publications.
Roisin Goodman Exploration - 36 years; NI 43-101 compliance specialist.

AI labour beneath the sign-off

Chief Geoscientist Holds every conclusion to a mineral-systems frame - economic geologist's discipline at machine recall.
Literature & Standards Lead No weight ships without its citation; enforces NI 43-101 / JORC standards and citation discipline.
G3.5 · G3.6 Market fit & operational readiness The client-facing artifact is reviewed, and the run is checked for reproducibility.

AI labour at these gates

Market & Cultural-Fit Lead Reviews the client-facing artifact for how it will land - the right framing for the right audience. (G3.5)
DevOps & Reliability Lead Confirms the run is reproducible - a result that cannot be re-run is not a result. (G3.6)
G-Final Adversarial audit The last gate before yours. Every conclusion is stress-tested for false positives.

AI labour at this gate

The Adversarial Auditor "The 13th." Stress-tests every conclusion for false positives - the last gate before the client's. Approval is earned and rare.
G4 Acceptance.

No AI sits at this gate. You and a named senior geologist, explicit, always.

The client

You

Acceptance is explicit. Nothing advances on assumption.

Your signatory

Your report is signed by a named, qualified senior geologist. Six of our bench are senior enough to put their name on a client-facing deliverable at G4:

Founder & Principal Dr. Amit Tripathi Exploration geologist, 30 years across 20+ countries; PhD Structural Geology.
Economic Geology Dr. V.N. Vasudev 45-year veteran; multiple +1 Moz gold discoveries.
Resource Evaluation & Geostatistics Prof. Bhabesh C. Sarkar IIT; 45+ years; 128+ publications.
Exploration Chris Ainsworth 33 years; led a major bauxite exploration program.
Exploration Roisin Goodman 36 years; NI 43-101 compliance specialist.
Ni-Platinum Exploration Richard Hornsey Sulphide & PGM economic geologist; Lonmin veteran.

The council advises; a geologist signs; silence is never approval.

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