Public bodies · Government · Agencies
AI for public bodies, governance first.
The rules come before the build: who may use it, where the data sits, what gets recorded, and who signs off. Then a CTO, an architect and engineers build AI that fits inside them.
What a public body needs first
Five things settled before anything ships.
Policy before product
An acceptable-use policy, a risk register for each model and vendor, and a named owner for every system — written with you, adopted by you, before a line of code reaches staff or the public.
Scopes a buyer can buy
Fixed scopes with written deliverables, acceptance criteria and a defined end. Clear enough to drop into a statement of work or a purchase order. You own the code, the repositories and the documentation.
Your data, where you decide
Built in your own cloud tenancy and region, not ours. Model and hosting options are chosen for where they process data and what they retain — and that choice is documented, not assumed.
Usable by every resident
Interfaces built and tested against WCAG 2.2 AA: keyboard and screen-reader use, contrast, plain language, and a person to reach when the machine is the wrong answer.
Every output on the record
What was asked, which sources were used, what the system said and who approved it — logged, searchable and kept to your retention schedule, ready for an audit or a public records request.
How it starts
Small, written down, and reversible.
Public money and public trust both need a way back. Every step below ends in a document you keep, and none of them commits you to the next.
Governance & risk review
Where AI is already in use, what data it touches, which vendors hold it, and what policy is missing. You get a written findings report.
One scoped build
A single workflow — intake, correspondence drafting, retrieval over your own policies — built inside the rules from step one, with staff review on every output.
Retained CTO or embedded engineers
Ongoing ownership if you want it: architecture, vendor decisions and maintenance, handed back to your own team whenever you are ready.
Start with a conversation