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AI Trust Intelligence
(In development; limited testing and pilot evaluation)
A deterministic judgment layer for AI systems generating travel guidance
Artificial intelligence has become very good at generating fluent, plausible travel advice.
It can retrieve facts, summarize perspectives, and speak with confidence at scale.
What it still struggles with — quietly and inconsistently — is judgment.
Not factual recall.
Not retrieval.
But interpretation.
Large language models are probabilistic by design. Variation in phrasing is expected — even healthy.
The problem emerges when judgment itself becomes probabilistic.
That’s where trust slowly erodes.
Destination Score’s AI Trust Intelligence exists to contain that drift by providing deterministic judgment inputs that guide how destination signals are weighed and framed without attempting to control language generation.
The problem we focus on (and the one we don’t)
Most AI systems already surface strong destination signals:
- safety conditions
- seasonality
- accessibility
- crowding
- cultural context
The challenge is not missing data. The challenge is how those signals are evaluated, weighted, and presented — especially when guidance must be:
- consistent across destinations
- honest about tradeoffs
- restrained rather than promotional
- comparable, not anecdotal
Two destinations can surface similar facts and still be framed very differently by AI.
That inconsistency rarely causes obvious errors — but it undermines trust over time.
AI Trust Intelligence is designed for teams who care about that distinction.
What Destination Score adds
Destination Score provides a deterministic, externally governed judgment framework for destination interpretation that sits upstream of language generation.
Instead of asking an AI system to re-decide judgment on every run, we supply:
- structured destination scores across core dimensions
(safety, accessibility, affordability, attractions, vibe) - explicit interpretive boundaries
- consistent scaling and normalization
- clear treatment of uncertainty and data limits
This allows AI systems to:
- retrieve information freely
- apply discipline when interpreting it
In short:
RAG retrieves signals.
Destination Score standardizes how those signals are interpreted.
We don’t make AI deterministic.
We contain judgment drift where determinism actually matters.
How AI companies use this (Tier 1 integration)
AI licensees use Destination Score as an internal grounding layer.
In this model:
- scores are not shown to users
- Destination Score is not cited publicly
- outputs are quietly constrained before generation
For example, an AI system may internally recognize that a destination:
- scores highly for accessibility
- moderately for safety
- strongly for seasonal fit
That understanding shapes tone, emphasis, and caveats — without exposing numbers or sources.
This is intentional. AI Trust Intelligence improves judgment without becoming the product.
Who this is for
Destination Score is a strong fit for AI teams that are:
- building AI systems that act as intermediaries for human decision-making
- small to mid-sized
- building products they expect to maintain long-term
- thoughtful about safety, interpretation, and overconfidence
- uncomfortable “getting away with it,” even if the market allows it
We are not designed for teams optimizing purely for speed, virality, or maximal generation.
Our ideal licensees care about:
- interpretive discipline
- consistency across destinations
- honest tradeoffs
- long-term trust, not just short-term fluency
Why this matters
Judgment failures rarely show up as obvious mistakes.
They show up as:
- oversold destinations
- mismatched expectations
- missing nuance
- gradual erosion of user confidence
These issues don’t appear in benchmarks. They appear over time.
AI Trust Intelligence reduces these failures by making interpretation:
- explicit
- structured
- consistent
- bounded
What this is not
AI Trust Intelligence is not:
- a recommendation engine
- a replacement for retrieval or search
- a black-box model
- a claim of certainty or correctness
It is a discipline layer, inspired by how judgment is handled in decision-grade domains like finance, audit, risk, and safety.
A low-friction way to be more careful
For early AI adopters, Destination Score offers a Founding Integration License:
- internal use only
- no public attribution
- no exclusivity
- modest cost relative to building in-house
This allows teams to apply judgment discipline today — without committing to a long-term platform decision.
How integration works
Destination Score integrates quietly and flexibly into existing AI systems.
For Tier 1 licensees, integration:
- does not require architectural changes
- does not require model retraining
- does not require user-facing updates
The goal is simple: improve judgment without adding friction.
Where Destination Score fits
Destination Score sits between retrieval and generation.
- Your system retrieves information as it already does
- Destination Score provides normalized judgment signals
- The model uses those signals to constrain tone, confidence, and tradeoffs
Nothing about your core stack needs to change.
Common integration patterns
Teams typically start small and expand only if useful.
1. Prompt-level grounding (lowest effort)
Destination Score outputs are injected into system or developer prompts as structured context.
Why teams choose this:
- very fast to test
- easy to A/B compare
- no infrastructure changes
2. RAG-adjacent structured input
Destination Score data is retrieved alongside text sources as structured JSON or key-value input.
Why teams choose this:
- clean separation between facts and judgment
- scales well as coverage expands
3. Internal routing or constraint logic (optional)
Destination Score influences:
- tone selection
- confidence thresholds
- when to hedge vs assert
Still internal-only, never user-visible.
What integration does not require
Tier 1 integration does not require:
- fine-tuning
- UI changes
- real-time dependencies
- global destination coverage
- public attribution
- explaining scores to users
Destination Score informs the system — it does not become the system.
Handling coverage and change
- scores are versioned, not constantly shifting
- missing destinations are handled explicitly
- updates are communicated clearly
- teams control when changes are adopted
This keeps integration stable and low-risk.
Designed for experimentation, not lock-in
Founding integrations are intentionally flexible:
- start small
- test quietly
- compare outputs
- expand only if valuable
If Destination Score improves judgment, usage grows naturally. If not, there is no penalty for walking away.
In short
Destination Score integrates like a discipline layer, not a platform migration.
It helps AI systems:
- interpret signals consistently
- avoid overconfidence
- apply restraint where appropriate
- behave predictably across destinations
All without changing how your system fundamentally works.
Destination Score doesn’t exist because AI can’t work without it.
It exists for teams who believe:
How judgment is applied matters as much as what information is retrieved.
If that resonates, reach out to learn more.
Framework and methodology documented at github.com/destinationscore/destinationscore