Barrington
AI & AutomationUK Government

Agentic AI pilot delivered to production standards — on time

On time

Fixed deadline met

Production

Grade assurance

Red-teamed

Safety tested

Can agentic AI create genuine value for citizens in a complex public service — and can it be delivered safely, at scale, inside government?

The problem

A fixed financial-year deadline, with a plan that wouldn't hit it. No clear objectives, key results, or success criteria — and no template for governing an agentic pilot inside the department.

The work sat between discovery, alpha, and beta — but needed production-grade assurance because real citizens were going to use it.

What we built

  • Re-planned the pilot on inheritance — structural changes, SRO sign-off, and a revised timeline delivered against precisely
  • Set objectives, key results, and success criteria against the business case
  • Led information security assurance end-to-end, identifying controls needed for public-facing launch
  • Owned the data protection impact assessment, privacy policy, and user terms
  • Participated in red-team exercises on the agent, contributing to model-safety evidence
  • Configured survey tooling so user feedback flowed into the evaluation pipeline

Outcome

Delivered on time, to production-grade assurance, inside a fixed financial-year deadline — the kind of outcome most agentic pilots in government don't reach.

Generated credible, citizen-tested evidence to inform the business case and the department's next funding decision.