Government
What is at play in government
Government organisations sit on enormous collections of documents: policy, regulations, inspection reports, parliamentary papers. Knowledge is scattered and slow to find. At the same time every answer has to be traceable, sensitive information may not leave the organisation’s own environment, and choices have to be explainable to citizens, parliament and regulators. A general AI assistant does not meet that.
Working in a strict sector calls for demonstrable information security. Gradient is ISO 27001 certified.
Where it pinches
Knowledge scattered across sources
What has already been written down somewhere takes hours to find again. Making large document collections semantically searchable saves that work.
Every answer must be traceable
For government, an answer without a source is useless. Whoever decides must be able to check where it comes from, all the way to the source documents.
Sensitive data and sovereignty
Data often may not go to a public cloud outside Europe. The solution has to run where the organisation decides, with ownership over data and model.
What we do
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Transparent and maximally human in the loop
We build in transparency to the maximum: citations down to the exact passage, visible reasoning steps, and an agent chain that is fully inspectable and auditable. A member of staff decides, and every outcome can be checked before anything is done with it.
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Running in a Dutch environment
We build sovereignly: application, data and model run within the organisation’s own environment or in a Dutch cloud, on open-source technology. Gradient is ISO 27001 certified.
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Building with the delivery teams
We work together with the people on the shop floor and their innovation labs, so that AI fits the real work and does not get stuck in a report.
Our work in government
All cases
Unlocking a mountain of documents for supervision.
A modular, AI-driven agent system for supervision, built with the NVWA Innovation Lab: thousands of documents made searchable, with a citation for every answer.
Regional knowledge in minutes instead of hours.
AI for Regional Expertise, with the Ministerie van LVVN and DICTU. Fragmented sources brought together into searchable knowledge.
Making support schemes findable for entrepreneurs.
With Rewire and Dialogic, an AI prototype that improves the findability, transparency and effectiveness of support for SMEs, starting with digitalisation.
AI for handling public-space reports.
A collaboration with the City of Amsterdam around AI for handling reports about public space, with the case handler in charge. More about this project follows soon.
Speeding up the response process for FOI requests.
Winner of 2nd prize at the Hackathon Open Overheid 2025: a tool that speeds up the response process for freedom-of-information (Woo) requests.
A sovereign AI platform for the municipality.
A sovereign AI platform (soev.ai) for the municipality of Zuidplas, connected to the existing systems. More about this project follows soon.
Trusted by
Other sectors
All sectors
Education and researchResearch material and knowledge libraries made searchable, sovereign and on open source.
Public transportPlanning timetables with AI that explains why, with the planner in charge.
Energy and constructionConstruction drawings, IFC files and technical documentation made queryable, with a source.
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