The DBT Assist team shares how they safely connected DBT’s AI tools to live customer relationship management data, overcoming a common challenge faced across government. By leveraging existing single sign-on and building an MCP server, the team has created a secure, reusable pattern that unlocks new AI capabilities and helps us use our data in …
How DBT colleagues with all levels of experience turned simple ideas into working prototypes within a week, demonstrating the energy and creativity within Digital, Data and Technology.
The Global Supply Chains Intelligence Programme (GSCIP) team has won the Analysis in Government Impact Award for informing major policy decisions, improving operational outcomes and driving analytical and AI innovation while saving government millions.
This article highlights key themes, challenges and opportunities around data governance and security from our recent cross-governmental discovery work.
Discover how DBT is building a flexible, open source data platform - learning from the experiences of organisations across government, industry, and the charity sector. This blog explores the practical choices and challenges behind our infrastructure and tooling decisions.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT)’s Data Scientists have built Matchbox, an open-source platform that allows them to deduplicate and link datasets in a way that is measurable, iterative and collaborative.
Reflections on research by the Digital, Data and Technology team in May 2025 with 15 organisations. This is the first in a series of blog posts on the topic.
