CoSET Charts the Path

Making Language Access Trustworthy

Become a Partner and CoSET the future of language access!

Tier	Annual Investment	What You Receive
🏆Champions	$100,000+	All of the below plus... First access to the testbed for neutral third party assessment of the effectiveness of your API in enabling integrity of communication between primary communicators Two seats in the Joint Strategy Planning subcircle Highlighting as a Champion in the public narrative of the CoSetters' development and impact story
⭐Boosters	$50,000-$99,999	All of the below plus... Early access to testbed Named sponsor in publications and workshops First look at findings and reports (before release to the public) Occasional shout out in the public narrative of the CoSetters' development and impact story
🤝Friends	$7,000-$49,999	Two seats in the Industry or Liaison Circle Custom training in the S.A.F.E. Zone risk framework Listed partner on CoSET website Invitation to annual community briefing At least one shout out in the public narrative/marketing of the CoSEtters' development and impact story
🌱Fans	$100-$6,999	Insider newsletter before (or in conjunction with) press releases and public announcements First look at findings before publication Opportunities for larger roles in future partnerships because you're in-the-know

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5 Reasons to become an Early Stage CoSET Partner

You're working with integrity and in partnership with Deaf and hard of hearing leaders, and therefore all language service users. CoSET's vendor-neutral testing platform and procurement toolkit will become the industry standard for evaluating all AI interpreting - spoken and signed. Spoken language companies that fund this infrastructure get to help shape those standards rather than be subject to ones built without them.
The trust problem is shared. If Deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers lose faith in AI interpreting because of bad deployments, that skepticism doesn't stay contained to sign language. It poisons the well for all automated interpreting services. CoSET raising the bar protects the entire market's credibility.
The benchmarking gap hurts everyone. Right now there are no formal, neutral benchmarks for when AI interpreting is safe to deploy - for any language. Spoken language companies face the same liability and reputational risk from deploying undertested systems. CoSET's risk framework gives the whole industry cover.
CoSET engagement is a signal of lower risk - and that has real dollar value. Insurance underwriters assess liability exposure when pricing coverage for language service companies. An LSC that has done its homework - that can demonstrate the evaluation of AI tools against a formal risk framework, used a vendor-neutral testing platform, and followed published procurement guidelines - is a measurably lower-risk client than one that deployed systems without that due diligence. CoSET partnership and toolkit adoption creates a documented paper trail of responsible practice. As AI interpreting claims and liability questions begin reaching underwriters, the companies that engaged with CoSET early will be in a fundamentally different risk category - and that difference will show up in their premiums.
Cross-linguistic research has direct spillover value. Effective methods and findings from sign language AI research - bias detection, naturalistic data collection, communicator-centered benchmarking - translate directly to design specifications for low-resource spoken languages, dialect diversity, and accessibility edge cases that remain a struggle for spoken language companies.

CoSET Partnership is for organizations and individuals who truly want to be on the leading edge of expanding meaningful language access and address liability accountably.

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