Rewiring the State
summary
One engineer embeds with in‑house lawyers for two weeks and replaces a planned £1.5m contract by shipping a tool that lives with that team and runs on demand, the program hires only outsiders at a 0.7% acceptance rate and pays market rates, and it forward‑deploys engineers to build things that actually ship: a policy simulation stack, a delivery red‑teaming PMO, two public dashboards, a public service that goes from idea to live in two months, and Extract (built on Gemini with DeepMind) now rolling out to local planning authorities.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to 10DS
- 1:50Challenges in government
- 5:17The insurgency model
- 8:36Internal AI projects
- 14:34Ecosystem partnerships
- 20:16Impact and recruitment
- 21:09Q&A session
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