FIRSTVAL

06Public Sector

Service delivered, trust preserved.

Casework, eligibility and citizen service modelled as outcomes per pound — with the highest bar for explainability, appeal rights and bias testing.

North Star

Cost per resolved citizen outcome

The value engine, end to end

Discover → Model → Twin → Agents → Govern → Compound

The same six moves we run everywhere, expressed in the physics of this industry.

01

Discover

Where do citizens wait and cases stall?

Service value map

02

Model

What drives cycle time and error?

Casework causal model

03

Twin

What if we change triage or staffing?

Service delivery twin

04

Agents

Who assists the caseworker?

Assistive agent layer

05

Govern

Is it explainable and appealable?

Algorithmic transparency record

06

Compound

Does backlog fall and stay down?

Outcome contract

Where the value is

Value pools and their drivers

Before a twin is built, we agree where the money sits and what moves it.

Value pool

Casework throughput

Driver

Cycle time, rework, backlog

Measured as

Cases resolved per FTE

Value pool

Error & fraud

Driver

Overpayment, eligibility error

Measured as

Value recovered or prevented

Value pool

Contact cost

Driver

Avoidable contact, channel shift

Measured as

Cost per interaction

Value pool

Outcome quality

Driver

Appeal rate, satisfaction, equity

Measured as

Rework and trust cost

Use cases

Where value is already sitting in Public Sector

Each one is a number somebody already owns, a twin that models it, and an agent that moves it inside a defined authority. Filter by function.

5 use cases

Casework triage and eligibility assessment

Reads the application and supporting evidence, checks eligibility against the published rule set, and shows the citation for every determination.

Moves
Days to determination
Twin
Process Twin
Capability
Cited RAG + document AI

Grant and procurement evaluation support

Structures submissions against the published criteria so evaluators compare like with like, and records why each score was given.

Moves
Evaluation cycle time and challenge rate
Twin
Compliance Twin
Capability
Structured extraction

Benefit and grant integrity

Detects organised and opportunistic misuse while keeping the false-positive burden off legitimate claimants.

Moves
Improper payments avoided
Twin
Financial Crime Twin
Capability
Network analytics

Citizen contact deflection and resolution

Answers the routine question correctly the first time, in the citizen's language, with a named route to a human when it is not routine.

Moves
Cost per resolved contact
Twin
Service Twin
Capability
Grounded assistants

Infrastructure condition and capital prioritisation

Ranks maintenance and renewal against condition, consequence and public value instead of the order the requests arrived in.

Moves
Public value per capital dollar
Twin
Asset Twin
Capability
Condition modelling

Outcome twins

Twins, levers, features and the agents that run them

Each twin owns a set of levers. Each feature moves one lever. Each agent executes inside a defined authority.

Casework Twin

Model the queue, not just the case.

Levers

Cycle timeRework rateBacklog age

Features

  • Triage scoring
  • Evidence summarisation
  • Workload balancing

Multi-agent layer

  • Casework Assist Agent

    Prepares the case pack; the officer decides.

Eligibility & Integrity Twin

Find error and fraud without punishing legitimate claimants.

Levers

Error rateOverpaymentFalse-positive rate

Features

  • Anomaly detection
  • Evidence matching
  • Bias testing

Multi-agent layer

  • Integrity Agent

    Flags anomalies with reasons and an appeal path.

Citizen Service Twin

Answer first time, in the citizen's channel and language.

Levers

Avoidable contactFirst-contact resolutionAccessibility

Features

  • Multilingual assistance
  • Status transparency
  • Form pre-fill

Multi-agent layer

  • Service Agent

    Resolves status and guidance queries with citations.

Unit economics

ROI calculator — per feature, per unit

Set your volume, switch features on or off, and move each impact to your own evidence. Everything is expressed per case.

Cases per year

600,000

Contribution per case

$210

Public value: benefit is cost avoided and error prevented, not revenue.

Annual program investment

$3.5m

Casework Twin

Unit costCost per case

6.0% — Right case to the right officer first time.

$7.6m

annual value

Casework Twin

Unit costHandling time

5.0% — Officers read a pack, not a folder.

$6.3m

annual value

Integrity Twin

LeakageError and overpayment

20.0% — Prevention before payment, with an appeal path.

$1.5m

annual value

Citizen Service Twin

Unit costContact cost per case

3.0% — Status answered without a phone call.

$3.8m

annual value

Value by feature

Annual value contributed by each active feature at current settings.

Value and ROI vs volume

How engineered value and ROI move as cases per year change. The marker is your current setting.

Cumulative value vs investment

Where the curve crosses the investment line is payback.

Value mix by lever

Which lever the engineered value is actually coming from.

Baseline contribution

$126.0m

Engineered annual value

$19.2m

ROI on program

447%

Payback

2.2 months

Directional model. In an engagement every number here is replaced by your measured baseline, signed off by finance, and written into the outcome contract before any agent goes live.

Scale

How this compounds from one unit to the enterprise

01

One service

Prove cycle time and equity metrics side by side.

02

One department

Reuse the pattern across adjacent services.

03

Cross-government

Shared standards, shared assurance evidence.

Integrations

Domain platforms we connect

Vendor-agnostic by design. Connectors are added per engagement — no platform lock-in.

Case & CRM

  • ServiceNow
  • Salesforce Public Sector
  • Pega
  • Dynamics 365

Identity

  • GOV.UK One Login
  • eIDAS providers
  • Entra ID

Data & cloud

  • Azure Gov
  • AWS GovCloud
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks

AI

  • Sovereign-hosted LLMs
  • Domain SLMs
  • Open-weight models

Regulations and standards

What we are held to in this industry

Compliance is a design input, not a review gate. Every agent action is logged, attributable and reversible.

EU AI Act

Essential-services eligibility AI is high-risk: FRIA, oversight, registration.

GDPR / national DP law

Lawful basis, Art. 22 rights, DPIA per service.

Algorithmic transparency

Published record for any citizen-affecting model.

Equality duty

Bias testing across protected characteristics.

Accessibility law

WCAG-conformant AI interfaces.

Standards supported

WCAG 2.2 AAISO 27001ISO 42001NIST AI RMFRecords management schedules

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