Technical strategy
Talk to people. Learn the system. Work out what we know, what we assume, and what needs testing. The first deliverable is clarity.
Technical strategy + prototyping + AI development
I help governments and mission-driven organizations move from ambiguous problems to working software. No ten-person innovation team required.
Let’s talkTalk to people. Learn the system. Work out what we know, what we assume, and what needs testing. The first deliverable is clarity.
Build the smallest thing that answers the biggest question. Use working software to test assumptions, uncover complexity, and plot a course.
It could be an AI tool, a scraper, an app, an API — whatever solves the problem. The delivered product is always accessible, deployed, and documented.
COURTS ADMINISTRATION SERVICE
A bilingual AI assistant for Government of Canada policy and regulatory documents. Amicus makes complex internal policy easier for Federal Court of Appeal staff to navigate.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
A publishing tool for federal grant announcements representing billions of dollars in funding. The NOFO Builder turns a slow, manual workflow into one that is quick, automated, and accessible.
SOLO PRODUCT
An AI tax-information chatbot taken from concept to public launch in 6 weeks. TaxGPT has helped tens of thousands of Canadians with their taxes since 2023.
CANADIAN DIGITAL SERVICE
An admin portal for healthcare workers supporting Canada’s COVID-19 exposure-notification service. The COVID Alert Portal was shipped quickly and in the open during a time of national crisis.
PCRAIG DIGITAL is Paul Craig, a forward-deployed engineer and technical strategist with over a decade of modern public-sector service delivery experience — aka, “digital transformation.”
I’ve worked for the Government Digital Service in the UK, the Canadian Digital Service in Canada, and I’ve consulted for various US public-sector organizations: Colorado’s Behavioural Health Administration, Health and Human Services , and New York State’s Department of Labor.
I work directly with stakeholders and users, prototype quickly, write software, and know the difference between moving fast and rushing to hit arbitrary deadlines. I like simple systems, open standards, accessible interfaces, user needs, and getting useful services shipped.
How do you transform a government? One service at a time.