Simply Readable
Benefits
- Cost reduction from £600 for a 5-10 page document to just 7-10 pence, representing a 749,900% ROI for Adult Social Care - Time reduction for creating easy-read documents from weeks to under 30 minutes - Frees up social workers to focus on providing direct support to residents - Cloud-based with user-friendly interface requiring minimal technical expertise or maintenance - No per-user licensing fees makes it cost-effective for wider adoption - Open-source availability allows other councils to leverage the tool - Integrates with translation services to convert documents into 75 languages - Co-created with residents with learning disabilities to ensure effectiveness
Details
- Tool name
- Simply Readable
- Organisation
- Swindon Borough Council
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- generativeAI, Natural Language Processing
- AI method (normalised tags)
- generativeAI Natural Language Processing
- Usecase
- Document Intelligence
- Origin
- UK Local Government
- Owning team
- Emerging Technology team, Swindon Borough Council
- Date added
- 3 February 2025
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Case study published by the Local Government Association (LGA) highlighting Swindon Borough Council's AI innovation. The council has made Simply Readable open-source and is exploring additional AI applications including multi-AI solutions to record, transcribe and document conversations between Adult Social Care professionals and those they support. [Source]