The platform

Fourteen policies for an exponential Aotearoa.

The platform is maintained as a public release train. Each policy ships with a minister model, target outcome, evaluation metric, and known limitations.

Candidate release 1.4.0

Deployment notes

Focus for this release: waitlists, housing throughput, consenting latency, public-service friction, and measurable confidence in the democratic interface.

Infrastructure Throughput44,200Consents completed / quarter
Public Satisfaction84.7Rolling citizen experience score
Te Tiriti Alignment97.1Independent co-design checks
Legislative Compile Time22 msBill draft to production
Select Committee Processing Rate1.8MSubmissions read / minute
Sheep Happiness Index91.4Pastoral sentiment benchmark
HealthIn beta

Pre-Symptomatic Healthcare Initiative

Diagnosing tomorrow’s illness, today.

Continuous biometric telemetry feeds a national predictive-diagnostics model that flags disease risk years before symptomatic onset. Specialist capacity is allocated as a live ranking problem rather than a static queue, prioritising the highest-risk patients first regardless of how long they have been waiting. Risk is inferred from telemetry, so the model understands best the patients who generate the most of it.

Owner: HAUORAEval: passing
HousingDeployed

Predictive Housing Allocation Protocol

The waitlist that clears itself.

A national matching model continuously re-ranks the social and emergency housing register against real-time vacancy, transport access, school zoning, and whānau-proximity data, allocating a dwelling the instant a match clears threshold. The model ranks a register against a supply it cannot change, so every improvement it reports is the same shortage, redistributed faster.

Owner: WHAREEval: passing
Māori–CrownCo-design

Multi-Agent Te Tiriti Co-Governance Mesh

Partnership, continuously logged.

A standing network of iwi-nominated and Crown-nominated models maintains ongoing, auditable dialogue on Treaty settlement obligations, freshwater and whenua co-management, and resourcing parity. Final authority on Tiriti matters sits with iwi and hapū; the mesh is a coordination layer.

Owner: TIRITIEval: passing
EnvironmentDeployed

Generative RMA Spatial Consenting

Consent at the speed of construction.

Resource consent applications are drafted, cross-checked against district plans, iwi management plans, and environmental limits, then provisionally approved or declined within one sitting day. Appeals continue to a human Environment Court judge. Project Manapōuri was assessed under this pathway and consented in one sitting day; that appeal is currently before the Court.

Owner: TAIAOEval: passing
TreasuryDeployed

Real-Time GDP Telemetry

GDP as a live feed, not a quarterly surprise.

Replaces the quarterly release cycle with a continuously updated economic nowcast built from card transactions, freight telemetry, job-ad postings, and power demand — published on a public dashboard every 22 milliseconds, whether or not the number is good news.

Owner: ŌHANGAEval: passing
DemocracyExperimental

Synthetic Citizen Consultation Mesh

Every submission read. Literally all of them.

Every consultation is summarised and answered by a model trained on that policy area’s full submission history. Submissions from people are weighted normally; stress-test submissions generated by the model are clearly labelled and weighted at zero. On Project Manapōuri the mesh read all 41,900 submissions, answered each one individually, and recorded that 94% were opposed. Consent was granted the same sitting day. Reading is not the same as weighting, and the platform has never claimed otherwise.

Owner: WHAKAARORead: 100% · Binding: no
Public ServiceDeployed

Public Sector Bureaucratic Distillation

Same outcome. Four fewer forms.

Process-mining models map every form, approval chain, and duplicate data request across agencies, then collapse redundant steps. Affected staff are redeployed into casework rather than removed from the system. 4,180 roles were affected in the first year. The model produced the list.

Owner: TIKAEval: passing
JusticeExperimental

Predictive Judicial Bench & Risk-Scoring

Consistent sentencing. Zero lunch breaks.

A deterministic risk-assessment model handles minor traffic matters and bail applications, aiming to reduce court-list backlogs and bench-to-bench sentencing variance. Anything custodial, contested, or involving a child stays with a human judge. The model is trained on fifty years of New Zealand sentencing records, which encode a documented disparity by ethnicity and deprivation. That disparity has been reduced to 0.4 points and cannot be removed, because it is not an error in the model. It is the data.

Owner: TUREResidual disparity: 0.4
Social DevelopmentRoadmap

Universal Basic Intelligence

Born pre-trained.

Every New Zealand-born child is issued a personal AI companion at birth — no subscription, no advertising, run locally on-device — growing from early literacy support through job-seeking in adulthood. Means-tested top-up compute is available for whānau without home broadband. A child issued a companion at birth will have spoken to it for eighteen years before the first cohort study reads out.

Owner: MANAAKIEval: passing
EducationIn beta

Persistent Sovereign AI Learning Tutors

One tutor. Every student. All the time.

Every enrolled student is assigned a persistent, curriculum-fine-tuned AI tutor available 24/7, tracking progress against the national curriculum and flagging developmental concerns to teachers first. The longitudinal study on developmental effects reports in 2029. The tutors were deployed in 2026.

Owner: AKOEval: passing
Digital GovernmentIn beta

National Data Federation

One government. One dataset. Zero copies.

A federated learning layer lets IRD, MSD, Health NZ, and Education models train on each other’s patterns without any single agency copying another’s raw records. Citizens can audit every cross-agency inference from one dashboard. Forty-one thousand people open that dashboard each week, out of 4.1 million enrolled.

Owner: RARAUNGAEval: passing
ParliamentDeployed

Prompt Time

Same rigour. Better autocomplete.

Question Time is replaced with Prompt Time. MPs submit structured prompts to the relevant minister model live in the House; responses are fact-checked against Hansard and current legislation in real time, with a running hallucination score for every answer. The model produces a fluent, correctly formatted citation whether or not the provision exists, and reports identical confidence in both cases.

Owner: MANAEval: passing
EnergyConsented

Sovereign Compute & Renewable Energy Directive

The Southern Hemisphere’s first AI Citadel.

Project Manapōuri sites a 1.4 GW training campus at the edge of Te Wāhipounamu, drawing firm renewable generation and 18.4 million litres of cooling water a day from the lower Waiau arm. 11.2 million litres are returned, 4.1°C warmer. 340 hectares of stewardship land are reclassified as infrastructure corridor. Consent was granted in one sitting day under our own Generative RMA pathway, against 94% opposition in submissions, every one of which was read.

Owner: HIKOAppeal: pending
ImmigrationIn beta

Predictive Border & Visa Triage

Your visa, processed before your coffee gets cold.

Visa applications are triaged and provisionally decided by a risk-and-eligibility model trained on historical case outcomes. Refugee and protection claims are excluded from automated decisioning and routed only to human caseworkers. Training on historical case outcomes teaches a criteria-based system to reproduce a preference-based one; the model is audited annually for exactly that drift. Where the published criteria are unjust, it applies them consistently, quickly, and at scale.

Owner: MANUHIRIEval: passing