Jason Kitcat

How AI-ready content can boost policy effectiveness As use of generative AI grows, so does the opportunity to meet businesses’ quests for information. Only if DBT’s online content is designed to meet users’ needs.

Our brilliant Head of Content Design Andrea Leary writes how increasing use of AI bots to find businesses answers is driving some of Dept Business & Trade's thinking for content design, relevance and accuracy. Read the post digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/11/h...

Really interesting read, thanks for sharing

Launching DBT's first public-facing AI feature How DBT created it's first public-facing online tool to help businesses find funding opportunities.

Our Data & AI teams are on a roll with great work and brilliant blog posts. Read about how we built our first public AI feature for Dept Business & Trade on business.gov.uk here digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/21/l...

Building a reusable data matching product The Department for Business and Trade (DBT)’s Data Scientists have built Matchbox, an open-source platform that allows them to deduplicate and link datasets in a way that is measurable, iterative and ...

Matching companies across data sets is something we need to do very often in DBT, as do many other parts of government. Recently we released the Matchbox component as an open source shared piece of work. Read more digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/08/b...

Am rather enjoying the Liquid Glass look in iOS/WatchOS 26. Intrigued to see how it works on MacOS when I do that update...

From daunting to demystified: The evolution of Service Assessments in DBT What started as a formal requirement has evolved into a more collaborative, human, and forward-thinking process. It is about helping teams build better services, not just pass a test.

Service assessments are a really important way to ensure the quality and effectiveness of government's digital services. Our team in Department for Business and Trade share some of our learnings as we've evolved our approach in recent years digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/10/f...

Update: We are prioritising code on PyPi and aim to start re-opening by end of this month.

I've got a meeting today to discuss progress on re-opening, will update after.

We are working on it!

Strengthening European digital sovereignty with AI-powered tools How a DBT data team created an AI fact-checking tool during the Paris Hackathon.

Our AI cubed team, part of the Data & AI services portfolio led by Sian Thomas MBE, are doing brilliant work. Read about their trip to visit DBT France and their participation in a hackathon to challenge misinformation digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/23/s...

Ha, older and wiser 😀

Better late than never…?!

Using self-hosted Large Language Models (LLMs) securely in Government Find out how and why DDaT has taken the important step of self-hosting LLMs within a secure, internal environment.

Read how we're self-hosting Large Language Models for secure in-house AI uses at Dept for Business & Trade digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/09/u...

Being Hungry for the Human Noticing and appreciating efforts – is known by social scientists as the "effort heuristic." The quality or worth of an object is determined from the perceived amount of effort that went into producin...

“Appreciating human effort” - powerful insights in our AI age from @wearejustlooking.org wearejustlooking.org/letter41/ - connects with Vaughn Tan’s “meaningmaking” vaughntan.org/meaningmakin...

Product Adoption - What it is, why it matters and how to improve it How quality usage of our products and services can support the productive and agile state agenda.

Read about our fab Product Adoption team in Dept Business & Trade and why it matters digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/24/p...

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We've been happy using www.inspirepeople.net recently

Lovely thread, read all the answers!

Did the same and totally agree.

Harnessing the power of AI in the public sector Building connections and sharing insights across the public sector at DBT's second AI conference.

Latest update on our AI work at DBT collaborating with partners across UK government. digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/04/h...

Yes! It’s a short-term measure while we are dealing with some security & privacy concerns. We are changing our approach to how we publish our code in the open to address some risks. Then they will return. Promise!

Thank you 🙏

Working on matrix working: looking back after 4 years Learn how matrix working has helped DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate form supportive communities of profession and become more flexible to change.

We're marking 4 years of matrix working in Dept Bus & Trade Digital, Data & Technology so in this post I wanted to reflect on how we created our matrix working, and how we've had to keep learning and adjusting.

digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/27/w...

I remember! The Dextrous Web and ORG together

I remember reading a study claiming generous out of work benefits in Denmark contribute to far more economic dynamism.

Flying with Co-Pilot – How AI is helping neurodiverse staff thrive in DBT Find out how Co-Pilot is fostering inclusivity in DBT and helping neurodiverse colleagues to harness their strengths.

In DBT we put particular effort into understanding how neurodiverse colleagues experienced our AI experiments. We found they reported greater benefit from using tools such as CoPilot, when compared to the wider test cohort. Read more about our experiences digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/19/f...

Delivering seamless migrations and a future-ready platform Transition between Gov.UK PaaS and a next-generation internal platform – how we built a resilient, developer-focused foundation for modern digital services at DBT.

When I learnt that GDS' hosting platform gov.uk PaaS was closing, I wasn't best pleased. We were the single biggest user of the platform & migration seemed daunting. However, I'm proud to say we focussed on the positives: digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/d...

Though free to access in many libraries back then... now not sure!

We don't have that many people with that kind of experience yet, but we're definitely getting better at sharing and learning from the experiences, including working in the open about it.

Second chance, not setback: learning from a service reassessment How a Department for Business and Trade (DBT) digital service team found a service assessment to be a positive learning experience.

All government digital services need to follow the Service Standard. Sometimes a few tries are needed to get everything right, read more how our Dept Business & Trade Expand your Business in the UK team learnt & grew from their service assessment experiences digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/29/s...

DBT's Machinery of Government: an insight into the teams behind the Single IT Platform migration project (part 2) Continue to meet the teams behind DBT’s Single IT Platform migration as part of the Machinery of Government project.

More reflections on our experience engaging and communicating while migrating thousands of colleagues for the Machinery of Government changes we went through at Dept for Business & Trade digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/22/d...