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PraxisThe permanent library
What we learn in the work,
written down.
Praxis is where our practice shows its workings — field notes, frames that have held up, essays for leaders wrestling with the same thing twice.
Not thought leadership. The work itself, reviewed honestly, shared in a way you can use.
- Apr 19, 2026 · 4 min
Five Principles for AI in Public Service
AI enters government work through a governance architecture or it does not enter at all. Five principles — advisory, auditable, deliberative, sovereign, secure — written to be defensible at a hearing.
Nicholas Scott — Principal
- Apr 18, 2026 · 3 min
What a lab is for
A lab is not a branded room with sticky notes. It is a contained piece of a system, run under observation, for long enough to learn something that matters.
Nicholas Scott — Principal
- Mar 28, 2026 · 2 min
Notes on the first three weeks of a system-change engagement
The most important decisions on any engagement are made before the plan exists. Here is what we try to notice in the weeks before the work is named.
Nicholas Scott — Principal
Featured essay
Five Principles for AI in Public Service
The firm's governance stance on AI in government. Five defensible sentences.
Read the essayThe method
Scan → Incubate → Scale → Advise
A four-stage operational model for institutional intelligence work. Extensible to any programme trying to turn data into decision.
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