An argument — and an invitation

The public sector deserves its own tools.

Built for public administration and public policy — not borrowed from the corporate world.

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The argument

When the only instrument measures efficiency, everything that isn't efficiency becomes invisible.

Public problems aren't private problems with worse margins — they carry identity, equity, trust, and value no revenue line records. There was nothing wrong with any of this in business; the error was importing it whole into a place it was never built for. So we build public-sector tools again, on three commitments:

01Built for the public sector — hold several kinds of value at once, not just one.
02Built on theory — traceable to named, published work; not AI without a mechanism.
03Built to open a debate, not close one — a deliberation aid, not an optimiser.

The public sector deserves its own tools. Let's build them.

— BILEL ABBOUDI, IN A PERSONAL CAPACITY
The commons

Theory-grounded tools for the public sector — mine, and invited experts'.

One bar: for the public sector · built on named theory · tested on a real problem.
Ex-ante analysisMulti-domainLive

CPAF

The Computational Policy Analysis Framework
QuestionWhat could a policy mix do — and why?
TheorySystem dynamics · NPF · network theory · Monte Carlo
LimitsA reasoning instrument, not a forecast.
Open the modelDocumentation
Monitor & assessNext

Monitoring & assessment

A method for watching public policies in flight.
QuestionIs a policy doing what it set out to?
TheoryIntroduced in a forthcoming edition.

Instrument 02 — coming soon.

Invited expertsOpen

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Built something public-sector-native and grounded in theory? It belongs in the commons.
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The invitation

Bring your tool. Show its reasoning. Name its limits.

Building something for public work that rests on real theory? I want to gather it here. The ones that fit get an edition of their own.

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