# AI for government

> We help agencies adopt AI and prove that it works.

- Type: Sector
- URL: https://www.blackmountainai.com.au/sectors/government

You are under pressure to use AI responsibly and to show it is delivering something.

Our people have worked inside Australian government agencies and built the strategies, frameworks and products now in use across the APS. At the Department of Home Affairs we wrote the AI strategy and the Data and AI Governance Framework, which the Secretary endorsed and which names the Chief Data and Analytics Officer as the Accountable AI Official.

Knowing the obligations is only half of it, because the other half is making sure something gets delivered. The strategy has to become a roadmap and the roadmap has to become a system people use, and that is where most agency AI programmes stall.

## You get the delivery discipline of our commercial work.

Public sector AI has a habit of producing frameworks and pilots while nothing reaches a user, because nobody is held to a date. Our commercial clients hold us to a named owner, a measurable outcome and something running in production, and we bring that into the APS alongside the governance fluency you would expect from people who have worked inside it.

## The pressures we hear about

### You have a mandate to use AI and a duty to prove it is safe

Those two pull against each other unless the strategy resolves it, so we write governance that is proportionate to risk, which lets you say yes more often.

### Everything you publish gets read by someone looking for problems

Legal, cyber, privacy, audit, the ANAO, the Ombudsman and Senate Estimates all read your work, so we write for those readers from the first draft.

### Your pilots keep stopping short of production

Almost every agency has run a pilot and far fewer have anything in daily use, and the blockers are rarely about model quality.

### Capability has to stay when people move on

Staff rotate and contracts end, so capability that walks out with a vendor leaves you with a governance problem on top of a delivery one.

## What we bring

### We write strategy against the policy you answer to

Everything maps to the APS AI Plan, DTA guidance and the whole-of-government AI Policy, so your strategy can be read directly against the frameworks you are measured on.

### We build the governance instruments as well as the principles

That means AI Impact Assessment pathways, an AI register, risk tiers and support for your Accountable AI Official, which are the artefacts audit asks to see.

### We deliver in twelve weeks inside your own environment

Work runs in your tenancy and under your governance, with a named business owner and an agreed path into business as usual.

### We lift the capability of your workforce and your executive

All-staff sessions, SES literacy programmes and role-based curriculum leave the knowledge with your people once we have gone.

## Where engagements start

- [Strategy and Discovery](https://www.blackmountainai.com.au/services/strategy-and-discovery.md): We help you work out what to do with AI, and why.
- [Governance](https://www.blackmountainai.com.au/services/governance.md): We help you use AI without putting trust at risk.
- [Delivery](https://www.blackmountainai.com.au/services/delivery.md): We build the systems, then hand them to your team.
- [Education and Capability](https://www.blackmountainai.com.au/services/education-and-capability.md): We get your people leading the work, not waiting on us.