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Last week, the UK government released its much-anticipated AI Playbook. Long document. Lots of principles. Beautifully presented. But here’s the problem: no generative AI in sight. Not even a basic chatbot to help you navigate it.

Which begs the question—why are we talking about AI if we’re not going to use it? So I decided to fix it. Using the Great Wave AI platform (our middleware for regulated industries), I built a live, working agent—actually, four of them—to make the AI Playbook searchable, useful, and, dare I say, interactive.

What I built (in under a day)

• Three agents trained on government documents: the AI Opportunities Action Plan and the AI Playbook

• One fusion agent that queries all three and picks the best answer

• Custom indexes for both semantic and keyword (BM25) lookups

• Chunked vector databases to give meaningful citations and links

• Drag-and-drop orchestration to wire it all together

• AI-on-AI evaluation to flag hallucinations and incorrect responses

• Live feedback visibility, so we can monitor everything users do and fine-tune fast

I even threw in some GDS-style colours on the frontend so it doesn’t look like a demo from 2003.

Why this matters: This isn’t about showing off tech tricks. It’s about showing what usable Gen AI looks like in practice. You don’t need a six-month IT project. You don’t need polished UIs. You just need access to the docs, a few decent agents, a platform that can orchestrate them, and a feedback loop that keeps the system honest. And most importantly—you need to involve the public.

We talk endlessly about trust in AI, but we never give people tools to use it. What if the next white paper came with an agent instead of an index? What if procurement guidance wasn’t buried in PDFs but surfaced in clear, helpful responses with links? This isn’t the future. This is the bare minimum.

So: if you’re a UK SME, or just curious how Gen AI can make government more accessible, the link to the working agent is in the comments. Go play with it. Try and break it. Leave feedback. That’s how we make it better.

Less paper. More agents. Let’s build the kind of digital public sector we actually want to use.