About Smart Island
The Isle of Man's most comprehensive open data platform — 30+ datasets, 89 MCP tools, 65+ automated pipelines, 1.5M species records, 80,000+ vehicles, 50-year population projections, live IoT sensors, and 7 AI advisors generating weekly intelligence. Built to educate, inform, and advise.
30+
Open datasets
with API & MCP access
89
MCP tools
for AI assistants
65+
Automated pipelines
scrape, enrich & analyse
66+
Interactive pages
dashboards & tools
80,000+
Vehicles tracked
IoM active fleet
80,000+
Planning applications
full IoM archive
1.5M+
Species records
GBIF biodiversity data
43,000+
Property transactions
25 years of data
500+
AI fluency guides
occupation rubrics
7
AI advisors
weekly intelligence
4,000+
FOI requests
searchable archive
1,432
Aircraft registered
IoM Aircraft Registry
Our Mission
Artificial intelligence is transforming the global economy at an unprecedented pace. Every industry, every occupation, and every worker on the Isle of Man will be affected in some way - whether through new opportunities, changing skill requirements, or evolving job roles.
Smart Island exists to make this transformation visible, understandable, and actionable. We believe that when people have access to clear, data-driven insights about how AI is reshaping their labour market, they can make better decisions - whether they are a job seeker exploring career paths, an employer planning their workforce, or a policymaker shaping the island's economic future.
The Isle of Man has historically lacked open, machine-readable data about its labour market. Smart Island addresses this directly by not only generating intelligence from AI, but also making that data available through open APIs and MCP (Model Context Protocol) interfaces - so AI assistants, researchers, and developers can query Isle of Man job market data programmatically.
We do not believe AI is something to fear. It has massive potential to augment human capabilities, create new roles, and drive productivity across the Isle of Man economy. But realising that potential requires awareness, preparation, and the right skills. That is what this platform is for: to educate the community on what is changing, inform decisions with real data, and advise on practical steps to adapt and thrive.
Built by Manx Technology Group
Isle of Man
Smart Island is developed and maintained by Manx Technology Group (MTG), an Isle of Man-based managed service provider and technology company specialising in AI, IoT, cloud infrastructure, and digital transformation. We help businesses and organisations across the island adopt and integrate emerging technologies into their operations.
Smart Island is one example of how we apply our expertise: combining custom AI workflow systems with the latest large language models to turn raw data into actionable intelligence - and making it accessible through APIs and MCP interfaces so the community and its AI tools can use it.
What Smart Island Does
Smart Island ingests, enriches, and analyses 30+ datasets from across the Isle of Man — jobs, vehicles, property, aircraft, crime, companies, biosphere species, marine data, telecoms, population demographics, schools & education, elections, parliament, planning applications, IoT sensors, economic indicators, and more. 65+ automated pipelines run daily, nightly, and weekly to keep everything current. Each dataset is enriched with AI-powered analysis, cross-referenced with others, and made available through 66+ interactive pages, REST APIs, and 89 MCP tools.
AI Risk Scoring
Every vacancy is scored 0-100% for automation risk and AI occupational exposure, showing which roles face disruption and which will be augmented.
Skills Intelligence
AI extracts skills from each job description and maps them to a canonical registry, revealing the most in-demand capabilities across the island.
Task Analysis
Each role's core tasks are classified as routine (automatable), augmented (AI-assisted), or human-only, with AI solution suggestions.
Career Paths
AI-generated career progression paths with skills gap analysis, helping workers plan transitions between occupations.
Weekly Intelligence
Auto-generated weekly market briefings based on live labour market signals - covering sentiment, risk trends, skills demand, and strategic advice for job seekers, employers, and policymakers.
AI Fluency Rubrics
500+ occupation-specific AI fluency guides with task-level rubric matrices — showing unacceptable, capable, adoptive, and transformative AI use for every role.
MCP Integration
89 MCP tools let AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT query jobs, vehicles, property, aircraft, biosphere, marine, elections, and crime data directly in conversation.
Biosphere Observatory
UNESCO Biosphere species tracking — 1.5M GBIF records, 15,000+ species, AI bird illustrations, seasonal wildlife calendar, and conservation spotlights.
Population Projections
50-year demographic modelling with 3 migration scenarios — dependency ratios, age structure shifts, and birth/death crossover analysis from World Bank data.
Interactive Marine Map
EMODnet-powered map with Marine Protected Areas, lighthouses, shipwrecks, and subsea cable routes from 1859 to present.
IoT Sensor Network
Live environmental monitoring via LoRaWAN sensors across the Isle of Man — rainfall, solar radiation, and environmental data in real time.
How It's Built
Smart Island runs on custom workflow systems built by MTG that use the latest AI models to scrape, classify, enrich, and analyse job market data automatically. Our classification pipeline uses a weighted arbitration system that combines multiple AI and academic sources to assign occupational codes with high accuracy - and when sources disagree, a tiebreaker AI call resolves the ambiguity.
All data is exposed through REST APIs and an 89-tool MCP server, making 30+ Isle of Man datasets queryable by AI assistants, researchers, and third-party applications. Open data downloads are available in JSON format under the IoM Open Government Licence.
Advisory content - weekly market briefings, career guidance, employer strategies, and economics commentary - is automatically generated by AI based on real-time labour market signals: vacancy volumes, risk trend shifts, emerging skill demand, and sector movements. No human analyst writes these reports; they are produced fresh each week from the data.
We also used AI extensively to develop the platform itself. The entire Smart Island codebase was built with the help of OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude - naturally. We believe in practising what we preach: AI is a powerful tool for building things faster and better, and this project is proof of that.
Technology Stack
Important Caveats
We believe in transparency. Here's what you should know about the limitations of this data.
Data-driven intelligence with AI enrichment
Smart Island intelligence is built on structured data, established research, and international taxonomies — including UK SOC2020, O*NET, the Anthropic Economic Index, the FRS AI Occupational Exposure dataset, and ONS ASHE salary benchmarks. AI models (via Azure AI Foundry) are used to enrich, classify, and analyse this data — not to fabricate it. However, AI outputs may contain inaccuracies or reflect biases in training data.
Advisory content is auto-generated
Weekly market briefings, career advisor reports, employer guidance, economics commentary, and sector analysis are automatically generated by AI based on real-time labour market signals — vacancy volumes, risk trends, skill demand shifts, and sector movements. They are not written or reviewed by human analysts, but are grounded in structured data from the platform's enrichment pipeline.
Automation risk is indicative, not predictive
Risk scores (0-100%) represent exposure to AI disruption based on occupational task profiles. They do not predict job losses. Many roles scored as "high risk" will be augmented rather than replaced. Context, regulation, and adoption timelines all matter.
Occupational classification is approximate
SOC2020 codes are assigned through a custom weighted arbitration of AI and CASCOT recommendations. While this produces strong results in most cases, some niche or multi-disciplinary roles may be classified imprecisely.
Salary data has limitations
Many IoM employers advertise "salary to be advised" or provide only hourly rates. UK salary benchmarks (ONS ASHE) are used for comparison but may not perfectly reflect Isle of Man pay scales.
Not professional advice
This platform provides data-driven insights for educational purposes. It is not a substitute for professional career guidance, employment law advice, or financial planning. Always consult qualified professionals for personal decisions.
Data currency
Job listings are scraped daily from services.gov.im. Vehicle registrations are scraped nightly with 4 concurrent workers. Property transactions are updated monthly from the IoM Land Registry. Aircraft data is refreshed monthly from the ARDIS registry. Crime statistics are updated annually when new Chief Constable reports are published. AI exposure datasets (Anthropic, FRS, JSA) are updated when new releases are published. Census data reflects the 2021 IoM Census.
Open data and web scraping
Some Isle of Man Government websites block AI crawlers (e.g. GPTBot). Smart Island uses conventional web scrapers to collate publicly available data from these sources before passing it to AI models for enrichment and analysis. All data is sourced from public job listings and open government publications. No private or restricted data is accessed.
Platform Roadmap
See what's coming next — new features, skills frameworks, and data source integrations.
Data Sources
35+ authoritative data sources powering AI intelligence across jobs, vehicles, property, aircraft, biosphere, marine, schools, planning, elections, population, telecoms, government, and more.
AI Skills Frameworks
8 international skills frameworks being integrated into Smart Island for cross-framework analysis.