Research Publications

Research & Think Tank

Industry standards, compliance guidance and think-tank research for the Caribbean compute and AI industry.

Project showcase

Green energy & subsea compute projects

Representative project concepts for Caribbean island energy and computing infrastructure.

These concepts are proposed by the website for discussion. No project start, funding, pilot or institutional participation has been confirmed; the institutions below are prospective candidates, not project partners.

Progress stage · Proposed concept · progress unverified

Island offshore wind–storage–compute digital twin

Model offshore wind, batteries and flexible AI workloads together to assess island grid resilience, energy costs and hurricane operating limits.

Proposed next milestone

Define candidate-site data needs and establish a simulation baseline with grid operators.

Prospective cooperating institutions

Unconfirmed · no agreed cooperation

Project details Research cooperation inquiry

Progress stage · Proposed concept · progress unverified

Tropical wave-energy array assessment

Compare buoy and oscillating-water-column configurations, seasonal output and storm survival for an island hybrid-energy feasibility study.

Proposed next milestone

Prepare a resource-data specification and a comparative tank-test protocol.

Prospective cooperating institutions

Unconfirmed · no agreed cooperation

Project details Research cooperation inquiry

Progress stage · Proposed concept · progress unverified

Inter-island tidal-current pilot feasibility

Screen channels for tidal resource, shipping access and ecological constraints, then simulate tidal–solar–storage dispatch.

Proposed next milestone

Define current-measurement campaigns and complete preliminary navigation and habitat screening.

Prospective cooperating institutions

Unconfirmed · no agreed cooperation

Project details Research cooperation inquiry

Progress stage · Proposed concept · progress unverified

Sealed subsea compute capsule reference design

Study enclosure pressure, heat rejection, secure connectivity and remote fault detection against a land-based compute baseline.

Proposed next milestone

Develop thermal and pressure test requirements and an environmental assessment scope.

Prospective cooperating institutions

Unconfirmed · no agreed cooperation

Project details Research cooperation inquiry

Progress stage · Proposed concept · progress unverified

Subsea capsule deployment and robotic inspection

Study vessel positioning, lifting and ROV inspection for safe capsule deployment, recovery and maintenance.

Proposed next milestone

Specify vessel and robot interfaces and rehearse deployment and emergency-recovery scenarios in simulation.

Prospective cooperating institutions

Unconfirmed · no agreed cooperation

Project details Research cooperation inquiry

Cooperation directory

CAII Research Assistant

Key Research Areas

Five research clusters built on the Caribbean economy

Grounded in the region's economic base — offshore finance and resort tourism — and supported by climate, island governance and compute infrastructure research, CAII delivers deployable AI for the Cayman Islands, BVI, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Eastern Caribbean, serving CARICOM members, regulators, fund and trust providers, resort groups and the cruise industry.

Offshore Finance & Cross-border Capital AI

Challenge: Overlapping FATF, OECD, CRS and OFAC regimes; costly KYC/KYB; complex SPC, SPV and trust documents; generic LLMs hallucinate law and mismatch jurisdictions.

AI-KYC/KYB & UBO identification

Extract ultimate beneficial owners from registry files, trust deeds and nominee structures; screen OFAC/UN lists; output FIU-ready reports.

Fund SPC/VCIC & ILS document intelligence

Parse PPMs, subscription and custody agreements; flag clause risks; generate CIMA and BMA filings.

Cross-border AML monitoring

Risk models tuned to island remittance, fund and reinsurance flows, reducing correspondent-bank de-risking.

CRS / AEOI tax compliance

Classify tax residency and controlling persons, validate CRS returns, assist trusts and family offices.

Digital assets, stablecoin & CBDC sandbox

Sand Dollar and Cayman digital-asset frameworks; transaction tracing and policy simulation for regulators.

Catastrophe reinsurance pricing

Hurricane and sea-level data for ILS and sidecar loss simulation, policy parsing and claims automation.

Caribbean Offshore Legal AI

A jurisdiction-isolated legal model on Cayman, BVI trust and insurance law, with lawyer review loops.

Financial data sovereignty & local compute

Keep sensitive financial data on-island with privately deployed vertical models in sovereign data centers.

Sustainable Island Tourism AI

Challenge: Seasonal demand, hurricane disruption, crowded beaches, low digital capacity in small businesses, coral reef decline and cruise crowd management.

Demand forecasting & revenue management

Fuse flights, cruise schedules, storms and search trends for island-level forecasts and dynamic pricing; open API for CHTA.

Multilingual AI island concierge

Conversational guide in EN/ZH/ES/FR/NL that promotes local dive shops, eateries and heritage experiences.

Beach carrying-capacity monitoring

Anonymous crowd sensing at beaches and cruise ports with real-time rerouting to protect reefs.

Blue Tourism coral-reef valuation

Satellite reef-health detection linked to tourism value, supporting blue-carbon and climate-fund applications.

Cruise shore-excursion orchestration

Coordinate landings, transfers and bookings so spending flows to local communities.

Low-carbon resort operations

AI control of HVAC, desalination and solar-storage to cut energy and water use for ESG certification.

Hurricane resilience & recovery

Asset damage simulation, recovery forecasting and automated insurance claim packages.

Caribbean cultural IP & marketing engine

Compliant, multilingual destination content tailored to North American, European and Asian markets.

Regional Shared Foundations

Challenge: Common infrastructure underpinning both finance and tourism.

Climate, hurricane & sea-level risk maps

AI forecasting for catastrophe insurance, resort real estate and infrastructure.

Island microgrids, solar & storage

AI dispatch for green compute serving offshore data centers and resort parks.

Caribbean multilingual foundation models

Speech and document models for English, Spanish, French, Dutch and Creole.

Lightweight AI toolkit for small businesses

Simple tools for guesthouses, local services and family offices.

Governance, Compliance & Ethics

Challenge: Policy output for CARICOM and national regulators.

Offshore-finance AI regulatory framework

Benchmarked to BMA and CIMA guidance, compatible with FATF and the EU AI Act.

Data protection & cross-border data handbook

Compliance guides aligned with each jurisdiction's data protection laws.

Explainability, audit trail & accountability

Mechanisms that address regulators' distrust of black-box AI.

Inclusive AI credit scoring

Financial inclusion for unbanked and low-income island residents without traditional credit files.

Green Energy & Subsea Compute

Challenge: Caribbean islands rely on imported diesel with volatile prices; land for data centers is scarce; hurricanes threaten surface infrastructure; subsea engineering capacity is limited.

Offshore wind power AI

Wind-resource assessment and siting for Caribbean waters; turbine health monitoring and hurricane shutdown strategies; AI dispatch coupling wind farms with island microgrids and compute loads.Explore research

Wave energy generation

Wave-buoy and oscillating-water-column output forecasting; array layout optimization; corrosion and biofouling predictive maintenance for tropical seas.Explore research

Tidal energy generation

Tidal-current modeling for channels between islands; turbine scheduling around shipping lanes and marine ecosystems; hybrid tidal-solar-storage dispatch.Explore research

Subsea compute data capsules

Sealed underwater data-center pods using seawater cooling; pressure, leak and thermal sensor fusion; AI fault prediction and remote operations for hurricane-safe compute.Explore research

Subsea compute engineering vessels

Specialized vessels for deploying and servicing subsea capsules; ROV/AUV route planning, dynamic positioning and lift-operation safety monitoring driven by AI.Explore research

Delivery Tiers

How projects are staged

Tier 1 · Flagship

Offshore UBO & fund-document compliance AI; Blue Tourism coral-reef asset valuation platform.

Tier 2 · Industry

Offshore AML monitoring, island visitor & revenue platform, Bermuda catastrophe pricing sandbox.

Tier 3 · Long-term

Regional multilingual models, climate risk engine, AI governance standards.

Target partners: CARICOM · CIMA (Cayman) · BMA (Bermuda) · CHTA · Island FIUs · Trust & fund associations · Blue-carbon & ocean conservation groups · CAF · Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)

Publication Series

Publication categories

White Papers

Compute white papers

Caribbean compute build-out white papers; the Global Offshore Green-Energy Compute White Paper, co-published with MIAI.

Compliance Reports

Stablecoin compliance reports

Stablecoin regulation across Caribbean states and Agent payment compliance frameworks.

Policy Briefings

Policy briefings

Data protection, cross-border data flows, model export and sanctions screening.

Investment Think Tank

Cross-border investment & M&A research

Caribbean SPVs, Cayman funds, compute project financing, LOI/SPA advisory; connected to the ANCIES investment assessment system.

The first reports are coming soon; corporate members receive priority access to full texts.