Data Riders helps mining companies strengthen tailings governance, water management, audit readiness and sustainability performance — through consulting, technical services and purpose-built AI platforms. Delivered by experts, accelerated by AI.
Human-led · Standards-aligned · Built for real mining operations
We don't sell packaged services — we scope the right response to the problem on your desk. Most engagements begin with one of these.
Third-party audits, gap analyses, and preparation programs delivered by auditors who sit at the standards tables — not generalists reading the standard for the first time.
Audit & complianceFrom tailings governance to water management frameworks and corporate geotechnical oversight — we design, integrate and implement the systems that make compliance durable.
Consulting & managementField expertise, engineering-of-record collaboration, observational method reviews, and closure stewardship — technical rigor where decisions carry real risk.
Technical servicesPurpose-built AI platforms and agents — GISTM.ai, TSM.ai, RIDE Agent — that accelerate evidence mapping, audits, and monitoring with human accountability on every outcome.
AI solutionsAudit rigor, management systems, technical depth and applied AI — delivered as one integrated practice, not siloed service lines. Software and agents support expert decisions; they do not replace them.
Independent audits against GISTM, TSM, Copper Mark, PAEBM and ANM regulatory frameworks. Evidence-first methodology.
Governance design, management systems, maturity diagnostics, and implementation support across tailings, water and geotechnics.
Specialist engineering support: geotechnics, hydrology, dam stability, closure stewardship, engineer-of-record collaboration.
Proprietary platforms and agents embedded in delivery — GISTM.ai, TSM.ai, RIDE Agent — with human accountability on every output.
Four engagements from a library of 16 case studies — each with explicit evidence levels and editorial notes on what worked and what we learned.
Not the only advisory firm. Often the sharpest one in the room on mining governance, standards and applied AI.
We do not consult on retail, banking or generic ESG. Every consultant's career is in mining. It shows in the questions we ask — and the ones we refuse to simplify.
GISTM, TSM, Copper Mark, PAEBM, ANM. We sit at standards tables, train auditors, and publish commentary. Our advice reflects how standards are actually interpreted.
AI accelerates our work; it never owns the output. Every audit, diagnosis and recommendation has a named human signatory. That's the operating rule.
From diagnosis to implementation to monitoring. We don't hand over a report and disappear. We stay through the hard part — making the system work in production.
Seven of our eleven AI agents — in production, applied to real mining work. Not demos: operational platforms with auditable traceability, aligned with GISTM, TSM, The Copper Mark, ISO 14001 and ANM 95/175.
Digital twin for mine water balance.
Visual drag-and-drop modelling, document intelligence and a monthly Excel water balance — aligned with ICMM WAF, GISTM and TSM.
EMS pre-audit, clause by clause.
Upload your ISO 14001:2015 EMS documentation and get clause-by-clause evaluation across all 10 clauses, with verbatim evidence and conformity verdicts.
GISTM readiness, AI-assisted.
Map evidence against all 77 GISTM requirements — faster, with auditor-grade traceability.
AI-assisted Emergency Action Plan.
Builds emergency action plans aligned with ANM Resolution 95/2022 — downstream zoning, flood scenarios and stakeholder workflows.
The Copper Mark pre-audit.
Upload policies, plans and reports and get all 33 RRA criteria evaluated with verdicts, verbatim evidence, gaps and recommendations.
Towards Sustainable Mining pre-audit.
Get all 31 indicators across the 9 TSM protocols of the Mining Association of Canada evaluated on the C/B/A/AA/AAA scale, with verbatim evidence.
AI co-pilot for site visits.
Capture findings on the field, classify against GISTM, TSM, CMSI and The Copper Mark, and generate inspection reports with traceable photographic evidence.
These are 7 of our 11 agents. See the full AI Agents catalog — including CMSI AI Assessor, RIDE Agent, Muiraquitãna and Data Riders Agent — for details, case studies and technical overviews.
Our team brings decades of field and governance experience across the technical disciplines mining actually runs on.
Whether you need strategic advisory, audit readiness, technical support, or AI-enabled governance — a 30-minute call is usually enough to know if we're the right fit.
