I first worked inside government in 2019, as an intern in a state government, and later as an officer at a state internal revenue service. Both times I saw the same thing: capable people doing important work, slowed down by the way the work itself was done. Memos written from scratch. Figures checked by hand. Approvals waiting on paper.
In between, I helped run a startup that survived by automating most of its work. The contrast stayed with me. Government does not have to be slow to be careful. Careful and fast are not opposites.
Back in government, I used general AI tools to get through my own work, because nothing existed that was built for it. That is why NSIBRA exists.
We are building the next infrastructure of sovereign states, starting with the institutions that matter most: where money is raised, planned, spent and checked; where defence and security are coordinated; where power is delivered; and where critical services are run. Together, they run budgets worth over $70 billion a year.2
No two governments work the same way. Laws on data, records and procurement differ from one country to the next, and between federal and state. What we build adapts to each of them: to the laws a government keeps, to where its data is allowed to go, and to the way its own institutions already work.
So far we have built four parts: GVP for the officer's desk, Institution OS for the whole organisation, the Sovereign Compute Engine that protects every request, and the Sovereign Compute Node for work that must never leave the building. 1,820 institutions, and the way their work is done, are already mapped into them.1 Now we are pursuing them one by one, until each is working on what we have built.
If you run an institution, work inside one, or want to help build this, write to me at contact@nsibra.com.