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Sovereign data and AI foundations for identity, revenue, procurement and service delivery, built so agencies share facts without losing control of who sees what.
01How the work happens today
Ministries, agencies and local governments each run their own systems. Civil registration, national ID, tax, land, health, education and social protection often use separate databases, sometimes procured years apart from different vendors. Public financial management and procurement run on specialized platforms, with paper approvals around them. Citizens meet the state at counters, where staff re-enter the same details for each service.
Without a shared and permissioned model, agencies cannot confirm basic facts about a person or a business without letters and queues. Duplicate and ghost records waste money in payroll and benefits. Revenue agencies cannot easily match tax, customs and land records. Procurement irregularities are found after the fact. Planners work from stale surveys. Many governments also want AI but must keep data in country, which rules out many foreign hosted tools. Trust is at stake: a data leak or an opaque automated decision can damage confidence in public institutions.
02A starting model for the sector
14 core things
The nouns of the sector. Each object has an identity, properties and a history, and maps to records in the source systems.
8 core relationships
How the objects connect. Links turn separate tables into a graph that people and agents can walk.
6 governed actions
What people and approved agents may do. Each action has rules, an approver where needed and a log entry.
03What changes on the ground
Situation
A revenue authority holds taxpayer, customs, land and business registry records in separate systems. Auditors pick cases from lists that do not reflect the full picture of a taxpayer.
What it does
The ontology links businesses, owners, assets and filings across sources. It surfaces mismatches such as declared income against visible assets, with the evidence for each flag.
Human decides
Tax officers decide whom to audit and what to assess. Taxpayers keep their right to respond, and the model gives no verdict.
04Sources to connect
We read from your existing systems first and write back only through approved actions. Every source has a named owner. Where connectivity is weak or records are on paper, we plan for queued sync and OCR with human review.
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05Laws that shape the design
| Country | Law | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | NDPA 2023 | Public bodies are data controllers and may need documented controls, impact assessments and breach processes. |
| Kenya | Data Protection Act 2019 | Government processing needs a lawful basis, and data localization expectations exist for some categories. |
| South Africa | POPIA | Public bodies must secure and limit processing of personal information, with sector rules on records. |
| Ghana | Data Protection Act 2012 | Controllers register and follow processing principles, including in public service systems. |
| Egypt | Personal Data Protection Law 2020 | Rules on consent, cross-border transfer and licensing may affect shared platforms. |
Public procurement, access to information, records management and cybersecurity laws also apply and vary by country. Treat this list as examples. Confirm requirements with counsel and the relevant authority. Examples only, not legal advice. Confirm with counsel.
06How each product serves this sector
Model plane
Builds the shared model of persons, businesses, services and contracts across agencies, and the dashboards for revenue, procurement and delivery.
Trust plane
Controls which officials and systems can see which records, with purpose limited access and full audit, which is central for inter-agency sharing.
Control plane
Keeps assistants and case agents within approved guidance and permissions, so they cannot expose personal records or decide outcomes.
Runtime plane
Hosts the platform under government control, in country, in a ministry cloud or local data center, with portable architecture.
Observation plane
Provides an audit trail for access and automated recommendations, supporting oversight bodies and citizen redress.
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Experience you can lean on
Immersed in technology and across many different verticals, so the people on your project have done this before.
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Sovereign data and AI foundations for identity, revenue, procurement and service delivery, built so agencies share facts without losing control of who sees what.
