From readiness to adoption to long-term value. Independent advisory for public sector organisations navigating AI with confidence.
Founded by a practitioner with 20+ years of public sector digital transformation and 200+ programmes delivered across local government, health, policing and central government. We don't sell technology. We help organisations adopt it properly and sustain value from it.
A structured four-day training programme for senior leaders navigating AI adoption. Build the knowledge, confidence and governance capability to lead AI strategy in your organisation.
Who it's for: Chief Executives, Directors, Cabinet Members, Board Members, CIOs, CISOs, Heads of Digital, Senior Responsible Officers, Senior Managers, Managers, and anyone else in a leadership role responsible for technology, digital or organisational transformation.
Delivered exclusively to your organisation, up to 20 attendees. Content tailored to your sector and organisational context. On-site delivery available for full-day formats (4 consecutive days or 2+2 days). Remote delivery for standalone days and half-day sessions. Remote option also available for all on-site formats. Scheduling flexible to your team's availability.
These are real deployments your peers are running right now — at scale, in production, with real budgets and real risk. Don’t get left behind. Learn from what’s worked, what hasn’t, and use the templates and governance patterns they’ve already proven.
Manchester City Council
Computer vision AI classifies pothole severity (categories 1–4) from citizen-submitted photos. Faster SLA compliance for repairs; extension to housing damp inspection planned. M365 Copilot + Copilot Studio + Azure AI Foundry.
View source →Home Office (UKVI / Asylum Operations)
GPT-4 automatically summarises lengthy asylum interview transcripts for caseworkers. 23 minutes saved per case on review. 9% of summaries required discarding. Full rollout to all asylum decision-makers planned January 2026.
View source →Department for Work and Pensions
Formal 6-month evaluation across 3,549 DWP central office staff. 19 min/day saved on routine tasks. High user satisfaction with mixed evidence on measurable productivity gains — published Aug 2025 as transparency benchmark.
View source →HM Revenue & Customs
28,000 staff with M365 Copilot access — largest single-department AI deployment in UK government, delivered with a formal AI governance framework. Agentic AI components in development.
View source →Manchester University NHS FT, Guy's & St Thomas', Imperial College Healthcare + 7 trusts
10,000+ consultations tested. ~2 hrs/week admin saved per clinician. MHRA Class 1 certified. On NHS England AVT Registry — a model deployment for clinical AI governance.
View source →Westminster City Council
Among the first 600 organisations globally in Microsoft's early-access programme. 382 licences by end-2024 across planning, policy and council administration.
View source →i.AI / MHCLG; Hillingdon, Westminster, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Exeter
40 seconds per document vs up to 2 hours manually. Full UK council rollout planned Spring 2026 — central to the government's 1.5m homes target.
View source →NHS England — 30 screening sites, 700,000+ women
World's largest randomised trial of AI in breast cancer screening — five competing AI systems across 30 NHS sites. £11m NIHR funding. Results will inform NHS-wide rollout decisions.
View source →Department for Transport
Reduces consultation analysis from weeks to days. AI reads thousands of public consultation responses, classifies and summarises — replacing manual policy analyst work.
View source →Cube8 is available for procurement via established public sector frameworks. We can also engage via direct award or single tender action.
Six phases. One structured approach. Not every engagement covers all six. Each phase stands alone or combines into a longer relationship. We scope to the situation.
Build executive AI literacy, governance language and strategic framing. Four days, 28 sessions.
Snapshot the current state across functions, data, people, process and ecosystem. Score against the SAGF.
Define the target state. Mission, governance design, capability build plan, prioritised use cases, 12–36 month roadmap.
Bake in the security model, governance design, policy regime and audit framework before implementation.
Independent oversight from procurement through deployment. Cube8 oversees; never implements or resells.
Track deployed AI investments. Outcome metrics, value reporting, risk validation, governance evolution.
Deep public sector experience, backed by recognised professional certifications.
AI is not just a technology decision. Successful AI adoption in UK Public Sector requires strategic clarity, organisational readiness, structured governance, defensible procurement, and a plan for what happens after go-live. Cube8 works across the full AI adoption lifecycle — independent of any technology vendor.
Our founding principal brings 20+ years of public sector digital transformation leadership, with over 200+ programmes delivered across local government, health, policing and central government. Our team is drawn from the same background: senior practitioners who understand governance, procurement and accountability from the inside.
Our team operates at the level your leadership expects. We align directly with CTO, CIO, CISO, CAIO, COO, CDO and CFO functions, speaking the language of strategy, risk, governance and value. We bring in specialist associates where engagements require additional depth, but every piece of work is led by senior practitioners who have held leadership positions within public services.
Industry-recognised credentials in security, AI governance and cloud architecture:
Cube8 is a fully independent consultancy. We do not resell technology, implement platforms or take commission from vendors. Our advice is always in the interest of the organisation, not a supplier relationship.
Most attendees book a cohort directly from the dates above. If you’ve got a question first — about content fit, organisational suitability, procurement routes or anything else — drop us a message. We respond within one working day.
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