27 experiments for a more connected, intelligent and adaptive Defra.

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Experiment 26

Outcome Explorer

WHAT IFFarmers could see the potential combined impact of different actions before deciding what to do?

Help farmers explore what different combinations of actions could potentially achieve on their land.

DREAM BIGExternal userPolicyOperationsANTICIPATEKNOW

Experiment 27

Proactive Funding

WHAT IFFarmers did not have to apply for support Defra already had enough evidence to know they were likely entitled to?

Bring evidence-led funding opportunities to farmers instead of making them find and apply for support Defra may already know they are likely entitled to.

Experiment 01

Defra Evidence Thread

Every important entity, interaction, decision and outcome remains connected over time.

FoundationalKNOWREMEMBER

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Experiment 02

Living Evidence Graph

Maintain a continuously improving representation of the people, places, organisations, interventions, evidence and outcomes Defra knows about.

AI-enabledFoundationalREMEMBERKNOW

Experiment 03

Organisational Memory AI

Move from finding records to reconstructing why Defra believes something and why a decision was made.

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Experiment 04

Tell Us Once → Show Me What You Know

Stop repeatedly asking users for information Defra already holds and reflect Defra’s current understanding back so people can confirm or improve it.

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Experiment 05

Prevent, Don’t Reconcile

Spot likely problems while there is still time to prevent them, reserving specialists for genuine ambiguity and risk.

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Experiment 06

Decision Memory

Every important decision remembers what was decided, why, using what evidence, under which rules and for how long it matters.

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Experiment 07

AI Decision Copilot

Make specialist knowledge and the most relevant evidence available at the moment a human has to exercise judgement.

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Experiment 08

Personalised Defra

Move from asking people to find the right service or scheme to proactively showing what is relevant to their circumstances.

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Experiment 09

Autonomous Evidence Scout

AI identifies what evidence is missing for an important question and finds the cheapest credible way to close the gap.

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Experiment 10

AI Regulatory Nervous System

Continuously identify where regulatory attention is most likely to make a difference.

PolicyFoundationalANTICIPATEREMEMBER

Experiment 11

Outcome Learning Loop

Design interventions so Defra can learn whether actions produced the intended service, behavioural and environmental outcomes.

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Experiment 12

AI Policy Challenger

Stress-test a policy proposition before significant design and delivery effort is committed.

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Experiment 13

Synthetic Policy Lab

Use evidence-grounded synthetic actors to expose likely questions, tensions and hypotheses before research with real people.

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Experiment 14

Policy Impact Mapper

Rapidly trace the likely knock-on effects of a proposed policy change across actors, services, operations and outcomes.

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Experiment 15

AI Policy Experiment Designer

Turn policy assumptions into the smallest useful experiments that can generate real evidence quickly.

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Experiment 16

AI Policy Sandbox

Compare alternative policy designs using connected evidence, behavioural assumptions and explicit uncertainty before full-scale implementation.

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Experiment 17

Policy Flight Simulator

Let policy teams explore how different actors and system constraints might respond dynamically to alternative rules.

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Experiment 18

Defra Digital Twin

Build living digital representations of farms, landscapes or regulatory systems that stay connected to real-world evidence and can support simulation.

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Experiment 19

Collective Intelligence for Landscapes

Coordinate farmers, evidence and interventions around shared landscape outcomes rather than isolated farm-level actions.

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Experiment 20

Adaptive Environmental Services

Move from administering static scheme menus toward interventions that continuously learn from place, participation and outcomes.

Experiment 21

Next Best Attention

Of everything I could look at today, what deserves my attention most?

OperationsANTICIPATEKNOW

Experiment 22

Intervention Radar

Where could intervention create the greatest benefit?

PolicyANTICIPATEKNOW

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Experiment 23

Consequence Preview

Help people understand likely consequences, obligations and uncertainty before they commit.

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Experiment 24

Emerging Needs Radar

Detect changing demand or emerging problems early enough for Defra to prepare rather than react.

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Experiment 25

Living Land Record

WHAT IFDefra’s understanding of land kept itself aligned with what is happening on the ground?

Keep Defra’s understanding of land aligned with what is happening on the ground.

DREAM BIGExternal userAI-enabledANTICIPATEKNOW

Experiment 26

Outcome Explorer

WHAT IFFarmers could see the potential combined impact of different actions before deciding what to do?

Help farmers explore what different combinations of actions could potentially achieve on their land.

DREAM BIGExternal userPolicyOperationsANTICIPATEKNOW

Experiment 27

Proactive Funding

WHAT IFFarmers did not have to apply for support Defra already had enough evidence to know they were likely entitled to?

Bring evidence-led funding opportunities to farmers instead of making them find and apply for support Defra may already know they are likely entitled to.