From agenda to action

Possible next moves

These examples show how the priorities could become practical work. Some explore new approaches; others help governments adopt and sustain what works.

They invite discussion, partners, and support. This is not an announced funding program or an invitation to apply for a grant. Each card distinguishes the work proposed from its readiness; “Committed” requires an accountable owner.

What could happen next

Ways to advance the agenda

Adoption and sustained operation

Readiness: Exploring

Help governments adopt a durable product operating model

Work with a small number of government teams on a service they choose, improving delivery while establishing public product ownership, decision rights, mixed career and temporary roles, live-work coaching, and targeted procurement changes. Document what remains after outside support and what another government would need to adapt the approach.

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Give government lasting ownership of its services Redesign services and reduce burdens with digital tools and AI Align funding, procurement, and oversight with delivery Help governments adopt and improve what works

Advances Workforce Right-sized procedure Incentives for outcomes

What it could unlock

Better service outcomes alongside public teams that can keep improving the service and share the operating choices that made it possible.

What we could learn

Whether live-work coaching, clear authority and product roles, mixed teams, and specific purchasing changes improve a government-defined service and leave usable capacity after outside support ends. Whether lessons transfer across states, or from states to federal agencies, remains a hypothesis to test.

What it would take

Government teams must define the need and name accountable service owners, a baseline, and room to change how work is done. Build with existing delivery providers and practitioner networks, fund hands-on support and follow-through, and agree how to measure service and institutional results. No partners or pilots are secured yet.

What would help

Find a few government teams with a live service problem, then design time-bound support with existing providers and practitioners that leaves ownership and evidence inside government.

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Development and testing

Readiness: Scoping

Prove a reusable public system through child welfare

Explore a working open-source Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) with a state partner as a test of reusable public systems. Pair software with changes to agency practice and policy, then publish the code, decisions, costs, and adoption playbook for a second state to test what truly transfers.

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Give government lasting ownership of its services Redesign services and reduce burdens with digital tools and AI Build and sustain shared public digital infrastructure

Advances Purpose-fit digital infrastructure Right-sized procedure Workforce

What it could unlock

More time for caseworkers to support children and families, less repeated procurement, and a reusable model for improving software, agency practice, and public ownership together.

What we could learn

Whether a government-owned team and shared steward can maintain a working service, improve caseworker and family experience, and help a second state adopt the core without repeating the first build.

What it would take

A willing first state and affected practitioners, a scoped service and safe migration path, federal engagement, an accountable public owner, financing for maintenance, and a credible second-state adoption path. None is secured yet.

What would help

Bring together child welfare agencies, families and caseworkers, delivery teams, federal partners, and funders to test demand, scope a first deployment, and plan long-term stewardship and a second adoption.

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Development and testing

Readiness: Exploring

Startup accelerator for public-sector infrastructure

Explore an accelerator for teams building foundational products and services public agencies repeatedly need. Pair patient support with government design partners and help teams navigate procurement, adoption, and long-term stewardship.

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Build and sustain shared public digital infrastructure Align funding, procurement, and oversight with delivery

Advances Purpose-fit digital infrastructure Incentives for outcomes

What it could unlock

A stronger supply of reusable, public-interest infrastructure instead of one-off solutions rebuilt agency by agency.

What we could learn

Whether an accelerator with government design partners can help teams solve recurring public needs, find a viable adoption path, and build products that agencies can maintain and reuse.

What it would take

Identify a specific recurring government need and why existing actors or funding paths do not meet it. Find an operator, patient funders, government design partners, and a credible path to procurement, adoption, and stewardship. None is secured yet.

What would help

Find government design partners, an operator, and funders to choose a first cohort around a defined public need and test whether the model helps products reach adoption.

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Development and testing

Readiness: Exploring

Build hands-on AI capacity inside congressional committees

Explore embedded technical practitioners working with congressional committee staff on actual legislative and oversight tasks. Pair model access with institutional context, independent evaluation, and a plan for staff to retain the ability to judge and use these tools after a placement ends.

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Give government lasting ownership of its services Redesign services and reduce burdens with digital tools and AI

Advances Workforce Right-sized procedure

What it could unlock

More capable committees today and a grounded institutional understanding of how AI changes legislative, oversight, and policy work.

What we could learn

Whether embedded expertise improves specific committee work and leaves staff better able to evaluate AI claims, commission technical work, and exercise independent oversight after the placement.

What it would take

A committee-defined task, willing staff and leadership, independent technical support, secure and ethically governed model access, evaluation against existing practice, and a plan for lasting staff capability. No placement is secured yet.

What would help

Find a committee-defined task and bring staff, embedded practitioners, and independent support together to design and evaluate a first placement.

Government partnerTechnical talentTechnology partnerDelivery capacity

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Development and testing

Readiness: Exploring

Make privacy rules executable

Explore a bounded privacy-as-code demonstration in one real government data-sharing workflow. Translate human-approved rules on authority, purpose, access, minimization, and retention into testable controls, then publish safe tests and evidence of how they work. Encoding a rule also exposes legal and policy interpretations that people must resolve.

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Redesign services and reduce burdens with digital tools and AI Build and sustain shared public digital infrastructure Align funding, procurement, and oversight with delivery

Advances Right-sized procedure Purpose-fit digital infrastructure Incentives for outcomes

What it could unlock

A practical way to inspect and enforce approved data-use limits while identifying where the law, workflow, and technical rules diverge. A first demonstration would not settle privacy policy or prove all data sharing is safe.

What we could learn

Whether a specific agency workflow can connect each approved data use to legal authority, enforce limits, reveal attempted misuse, and produce inspectable evidence without increasing exposure or burden.

What it would take

A willing agency and bounded use case, approved legal interpretations, participation from affected people and oversight, tests of permitted and prohibited uses, human correction paths, and a steward for changes and maintenance. None is secured yet.

What would help

Find an agency data-sharing use case and bring together legal, privacy, program, engineering, and oversight expertise to design and test a first implementation.

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