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Incubator for Artificial Intelligence

The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to act on government's duty to harness AI for public good.

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📣 We're hiring!

Come and help us build the next of AI solutions and products for Government. Our team of experts was created by No10 to use AI to deliver for the public good. We do this by experimenting, failing fast, and building products.

We are currently hiring AI engineers and are looking for people who are:

  • Passionate about applied AI for the public good
  • strong coding and software engineering skills
  • Mission driven
  • Outcome focussed, rather than output
  • Entrepreneurial/ founder mindset
  • Thrive in dynamic environments
  • Experienced with the latest advances in AI (agents, MCP, new foundation models)

We have two flavours of AI engineer, so please apply if you are interested either in applied research or product building.

Check on Linkedin or Civil Service Jobs. We're based in London, Bristol and Manchester.

About us

The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) is an agile delivery team within the Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

Our mission is to act on government's duty to harness AI for public good. To do this we recruit top talent from industry, academia and across the public sector to make government better and serve the public interest.

Visit ai.gov.uk for further information. Please contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in working together or contributing to our projects.

Our open-source projects

Here is a selection of our open source projects.

Project             Description
Consult An LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.
Caddy A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform.
Lex A comprehensive legislative service that downloads, parses, and indexes legislation, explanatory notes, amendments, and caselaw for subsequent search via an OpenAPI backend and MCP server.
Theme Finder A topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).
GovAI Client A thin chat client for connecting to MCP Servers.
Website This is our repository for our public website. The intent of this site is to give us a public space for showcasing our work, news about the team, upcoming jobs and interesting commercial partnerships.
Utilities package This is our utilities library. We use this to store common patterns for usage across the team and is available for anyone to make use of too!
Parliament MCP An MCP server that roughly maps onto a subset of https://developer.parliament.uk/, as well as offering additional semantic search capabilities.

Visit our projects page for information on many of our other projects.

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  1. redbox redbox Public

    Bringing Generative AI to the way the Civil Service works

    Jupyter Notebook 134 51

  2. awesome-gov-datasets awesome-gov-datasets Public

    A curated set of references to useful UK Government datasets

    Python 123 11

  3. themefinder themefinder Public

    A topic modelling Python package for analysing one-to-many question-answer data.

    Python 76 14

  4. consult consult Public

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  5. uwotm8 uwotm8 Public

    Converting American English to British English

    Python 44 3

  6. minute minute Public

    Transcription and minuting of meetings in the public sector.

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  • consult Public
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    Python 44 MIT 15 1 12 Updated Nov 29, 2025
  • lex Public

    UK legal API for AI agents and researchers.

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    Python 13 MIT 7 2 1 Updated Nov 28, 2025
  • planning-drawing-validator Public

    Planning Drawing Validator automatically classifies and validates planning application drawings (floor plans, elevations, site plans, etc.) against UK planning requirements using Vision Language Models.

    i-dot-ai/planning-drawing-validator’s past year of commit activity
    Python 2 MIT 0 0 7 Updated Nov 28, 2025
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    Nunjucks 6 MIT 2 0 2 Updated Nov 28, 2025
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    A topic modelling Python package for analysing one-to-many question-answer data.

    i-dot-ai/themefinder’s past year of commit activity
    Python 76 MIT 14 2 3 Updated Nov 25, 2025
  • ai-gov-uk-cms Public

    Content Management System for ai.gov.uk website

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    Nunjucks 0 1 1 0 Updated Nov 25, 2025
  • caddy Public
    i-dot-ai/caddy’s past year of commit activity
    Python 8 2 2 5 Updated Nov 25, 2025
  • minute Public

    Transcription and minuting of meetings in the public sector.

    i-dot-ai/minute’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 24 13 1 7 Updated Nov 24, 2025
  • redbox Public

    Bringing Generative AI to the way the Civil Service works

    i-dot-ai/redbox’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 134 MIT 51 7 16 Updated Nov 20, 2025
  • parliament-mcp Public

    MCP implementation of parliamentary APIs, including Hansard and Members APIs

    i-dot-ai/parliament-mcp’s past year of commit activity
    Python 17 MIT 5 0 0 Updated Nov 19, 2025