On ownership, governance,
and the speed of institutions.
Essays for the people who evaluate platforms — written by the people who build one. No product tours; the arguments underneath the product. New: the GovTech glossary — 38 terms, defined plainly.
The year-seven question
Every platform contract ends. What happens then is decided on the day you sign — not the day it expires. The one question that separates an asset from a dependency.
Read the essay →Sovereign by design
Data residency is a checkbox. Sovereignty is an architecture. What governments should actually demand — and the difference between hosting at home and owning at home.
Read → April 2026 · 6 min readBeautiful on the surface, broken underneath
AI made software instant — and ungoverned. Why generation without a kernel is a risk for a business and a liability for a government.
Read → March 2026 · 6 min readNinety days, not a platform commitment
The right first decision is deliberately small: real services, your environment, your team in the room — and evidence instead of slides.
Read →The agentic state
AI agents will file, check, draft and route inside government. The only question is whether they act under the kernel’s governance — or around it.
Read → July 2026 · 8 min readThe DPI playbook for mid-size nations
Digital public infrastructure is a shape, not a scale. The sequence — rails, registries, one governed engine, your own cadre — fits a five-million-person nation.
Read → June 2026 · 8 min readThe legacy exit
Big bangs fail; maintenance bleeds. The third path strangles the old system service by service — one governed cycle at a time, toward a destination you own.
Read →We publishwhat we practise.
No ghost-written thought leadership. These are the arguments we make in briefing rooms — written down, with the numbers attached, so you can test them before you ever meet us.
Four arguments
we keep making.
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