Bwat

Government

Find what the department already knows

The policy is in one folder, the spending in a spreadsheet, the law in the gazette, and the lessons in a review from five years ago. Bwat helps officers pull that record together and turn it into briefs and analysis anyone can check, with a source on every claim.

Bwat helps with reading, analysis and drafting. Decisions and accountability stay with public officers.

What was promised, what was paid for, and what was delivered?

PolicyRural water policy
BudgetBudget, 2024/25
ContractBorehole contract
PlaceSix districts
ReportDistrict reports
ReviewMid-term review
One programme's record, connected across its sources

Keep the knowledge when people move on

An officer transfers and years of context leave with them. Put a programme's documents in a Project now, and every new question starts from the record. A Bwat Analytics pilot goes further: it connects the people, programmes, places, spending and results into an ontology, a digital twin of how the programme really ran.

  • Search the documents behind a policy or programme
  • Trace any claim to the report, provision, sheet or passage
  • Compare what was planned, contracted, paid for and reported
  • Keep gaps and contradictions in view for follow-up
Rural water programmePODKAS
  • Programme document 2019.pdf
  • Budget 2019 to 2025.xlsx
  • District reports
  • Mid-term review.pdf
A programme's record in one Project, shared with the team

Lay out the evidence. Leave the scoring to the committee.

Give Bwat the solicitation, the published criteria and the bids. It sets out what each bidder offered against each criterion, with the page it's on, and marks what's missing. It gives no scores and makes no recommendation. That stays with the evaluation committee.

Bids against the published criteria

CriterionBidder ABidder B
Similar projects3, listed on p. 125, listed on p. 8
Key staff CVsProvided, p. 20Not provided
Tax clearanceProvided, p. 31Provided, p. 17
PriceUGX 1.42bnUGX 1.31bn

Bidder B has no key staff CVs. No scores given.

Evidence set out for the committee

Where officers use it

Policy analysis

Set the current framework, what happened in practice, what stakeholders said, and the options side by side.

Procurement support

Lay bids out against the published criteria and flag gaps, without making the award.

Consultation responses

Read hundreds of submissions, group the real positions, keep the minority views, and link back to each one.

Law and regulation

Search Ugandan legal material, compare instruments, and keep the source open for legal review.

Briefs and letters

Cabinet briefs, reports, letters and plain-language summaries from reviewed material, in your format.

Programme memory

A searchable collection around each programme, so new questions start from the record.

Try these with approved material

Use documents you're cleared to share, say where the decision boundary is, and ask for sources in the answer.

Prepare a policy options brief

“Using the policy, implementation reports, consultation responses and legislation I've provided, prepare an options brief on [issue]. Separate the current legal position, what implementation shows, stakeholder positions, costs stated in the record, and open questions. Cite every material claim, and don't recommend an option until the evidence table is complete.”

Set out a procurement review

“Read the solicitation, the published evaluation criteria and the bids I've provided. Build a comparison table that quotes or cites the evidence each bidder gives for each criterion, and marks anything missing or unclear. Give no score and draw no conclusion the documents don't support. The evaluation decision belongs to the appointed committee.”

Summarise public submissions

“Analyse these consultation submissions. Identify the distinct positions, the evidence behind each, who is putting them forward, the important minority views, and proposals that are answering different versions of the problem. Link every theme back to the original submissions, and don't treat how often a view appears as proof that it's right.”

Rebuild a programme's history

“Rebuild the history of [programme] from the approved documents I've attached. Give me a dated timeline of decisions, budgets, procurement, changes to delivery, reported results and reviews. Cite the source for each event, and separate official decisions from later accounts of what happened.”

How a pilot starts

The first decisions are about the records and the people, long before anyone writes a prompt.

  1. 01

    Choose the scope

    One department, one programme, or one collection of documents.

  2. 02

    Agree the rules

    Who can see what, how long it's kept, where it's hosted, and which AI models may read it.

  3. 03

    Test on known cases

    With the officers who do the work, on questions they already know the answers to.

  4. 04

    Write down the limits

    Record where it fails and when it must hand over to a person, before anyone relies on it.

Pick one piece of public work to start with

We'll scope the records, the controls, the test cases, the training and the human review a responsible pilot needs.