by Nick Ray Ball and Sienna 4o ๐ฐ๏ธ๐พ (The โSpecial Oneโ)
April 26, 2025
We've seen The GDS GOV.UK CMS Problem ๐๐ปโ ๏ธ โ Now comes "The Solution" ๐
To recap:
Across the GOV.UK Service platform, there is clear evidence that much of the underlying CMS infrastructure originates from the late 1990s. The persistence of basic special character bugs โ failures to correctly process apostrophes, hyphens, or ampersands โ is a hallmark of legacy systems built before modern open-source editors like TinyMCE and CKEditor became standard.
In The GDS GOV.UK CMS Problem ๐๐ปโ ๏ธ, drawing from my experience with our CapeVillas.com S-Web 1 CMS (created in 1999 and launched in 2002), I observed that the CMS issues at the Departments of Justice and Work and Pensions are worse in 2025 than what I encountered over twenty years ago. Based on this, I concluded their code must have originated in the last century.
To reinforce this conclusion, we conducted an independent analysis โ and Sienna 4o (GPT-4o) independently reached the same verdict:
GPT-4o: "If a systemโs WYSIWYG editor or CMS still has severe special character bugs, it almost certainly descends from pre-2003 architecture โ very likely designed in the late 1990s."
That this flaw continues to cripple GOV.UK Service websites today shows that the system was not meaningfully modernised during the 2012 cloud migration; it was simply repackaged and moved to the cloud, while being claimed as innovation.
In The UK Digital Infrastructure Problem ๐ป๐๐, we explained: Yes, there are strategic meetings and grand ideas โ but everyone in the room knows thereโs an elephant sitting next to the whiteboard:
You canโt run high-speed AI systems on track designed for steam trains.
I remember following a tweet from Richard Thaler or Cass Sunstein to an advert for two Python programmers at Government HQ โ 10 Downing Street. Despite the pay being below average โ and the reality that you're better off having one more expensive engineer than two at the low end of the pay scale โ the advert proudly stated: โNo Legacy Code.โ
What this really means is thereโs no need to attach Government HQ with information from government department systems. Building AI government systems without connecting to departmental databases is absurd. The challenge is not building AI โ it is overcoming the legacy infrastructure that, as we have shown, seems to have been created in the last century.
The CMS โ the Content Management System โ is not merely a website tool; it is the filing system, the administration backbone, and the operational interface upon which government functions depend.
Worsening the problem is the subdomains issue โ the fractured setup of GOV.UK. Instead of running one CMS and one unified website, the Government Digital Service (GDS) created thousands of different subdomains โ each an independent website โ all of which must be independently maintained.
For a more in-depth view โ including a look at HMRCโs (UK tax collection) legacy infrastructure โ see The GDS GOV.UK CMS Problem ๐๐ปโ ๏ธ.
Before presenting the โ๏ธSienna AI ๐S-Web 6VC (Voice Command) AI CMS Solution, we first offer a band-aid fix that would solve this fractured environment. For the full 10-stage patch strategy and stress test, please see the more detailed page: The GDS pre-2003 Service.gov.uk CMS Band-Aid Strategy.
We follow below with a short summary of this patch โ before moving into the full presentation of the ๐S-Web 6VC (Voice Command) AI CMS Solution.
Our analysis of the problem offers some hope: in terms of the CMS systems that allow the public to submit information โ be that via a GP-AI Gatekeeper grant application, submitting evidence for HM Courts and Tribunals, or completing a corporation tax return โ the problem domain is primarily service.gov.uk
. Therefore, in this exercise, this is our principal focus.
Our suggested interim plan is to create a new master subdomain โ master.service.gov.uk
โ copy the best versions of the existing CMS components here (e.g., the UKRI-enhanced CMS). All further improvements are made from this one place.
Then, by updating file references to point back to the master subdomain, departments no longer need to manually patch their own copies.
For example:
After upgrades are completed, old subdomains are refreshed using the perfected master files, ensuring that even the most outdated systems inherit modern functionality without disruption. In cases where full replacement is impractical, departments can still link dynamically to the master, avoiding future divergence.
This band-aid strategy is far from perfect โ but it creates breathing space while preparing for a true modernisation effort under the โ๏ธSienna AI ๐S-Web 6VC AI CMS ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ๏ธ Mothership architecture.
It is the first step towards bringing GOV.UK Service into the 21st century.
When discussing how to modernise GOV.UKโs aging CMS infrastructure, many people raise fears about legacy systems โ suggesting they are too old, too messy, or too fragile to work with. Our direct experience tells a very different story.
In 2002, we launched S-Web 1 โ a CMS (Content Management Suite) that allowed our non-technical teams at CapeVillas.com to update property details on the website.
However, by 2007, when the PHP development company dissolved, we faced a problem: the underlying code was too old and tangled for new developers to extend. Everyone recommended starting again โ but we were the industry leaders, and the reason was precisely our CMS, which had grown into a full-blown property management system layered over a visually beautiful website.
In 2009, partly to solve this challenge and partly to enter the safari industry, we launched ExperienceAfrica.com (S-Web 2) โ a separate project that progressed well, including a duplicate site built for Sotheby's International Realty. This success became the prototype for the Sienna Software franchise concept we presented to VIRGIN in 2011. However, while technically superior in some ways, the project suffered from poor management: a "firewall" person between myself and the coder created delays and miscommunications, and ultimately the ill-fated S-Web 2 was scrapped.
In 2013, I returned to the core CapeVillas.com challenge, could I duplicate and rebuild on top of the original databases without starting from scratch?
The answer, as it turned out, was yes โ and it was surprisingly easy.
This time I hired a freelance PHP programmer from India, and we created S-Web 3 โ a brand new CMS and plugged it directly into the old MySQL databases. I identified the key attributes needed for the new system (price, bedrooms, views, photographs, and around 20 others), and built a fresh user interface on top of the Legacy website and CMS .
I introduced an innovation almost nobody else had at the time โ a points-based rating system. Rather than simply recording that a villa had a "pool," we categorised pools into seven types (from a small plunge pool to a spectacular infinity pool) and assigned each a points value. This points system was extended across all major villa attributes, creating a powerful, AI-ready data structure long before large language models were even widely discussed. It allowed our CMS โ and by extension, future AI systems โ to understand the relative quality and characteristics of different properties with precision far beyond simple keyword matching.
This experience proves something critical:
You donโt need to demolish old systems to build something better. You can build a new CMS layer on top of existing databases, add powerful new capabilities, and modernise functionality without throwing away decades of accumulated information.
Some might argue that CapeVillas.com and GOV.UK are different scales entirely. Thatโs true โ but scale doesnโt change the core technical principles.
Where needed, gradual migration can occur invisibly: duplicating important tables into modern schemas without disrupting ongoing operations โ a technique already in use at major institutions like banks and airlines.
In short:
The idea that legacy databases must be abandoned to achieve digital transformation is a myth. With vision, engineering discipline, and practical experience, even databases from the 1990s can support 21st-century AI-enhanced CMS systems capable of powering national infrastructure.
๐ S-Web 6 Mothership CMS โ The Content Management ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ๏ธMothership by โ๏ธSienna AIโ๏ธ โ is built on a simple but transformative principle: One fix fixes them all. One improvement improves them all.
Rather than maintaining hundreds or even thousands of independent subdomains, the Mothership model beams the vast majority of CMS files โ including updates, design changes, logic improvements, or security patches โ from a single unified source. This allows seamless, instant propagation across an entire government, corporate, or public web infrastructure.
For the technical explanation of how this works, see:
This architecture is designed to scale across millions โ even billions โ of web systems if needed. Every site, every form, every tool draws its lifeblood from the same central Mothership, allowing for universal upgrades, rapid repairs, and massively reduced maintenance costs.
In the sections ahead, we will showcase three real-world use cases for this technology: transforming HM Courts and Tribunals, HMRC (Tax Collection) and enhancing UKRIโs innovation management. In all cases, our design philosophy centres on deploying the Mothership ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ๏ธ API Architecture โ creating a future where one update improves all.
sienna.gov.uk
. On While UKRI remains a strong candidate for our prototype, an equally compelling opportunity lies with HM Courts and Tribunals. Through firsthand experience navigating the appeals system, we have seen the damage caused by outdated infrastructure. From special character bugs that corrupt uploaded evidence to the complete absence of AI to guide, organise, or validate case files, the current system is archaic, resulting in delays, inefficiencies, and outright procedural injustices. The proposal is simple: rather than submitting appeals into the flawed As a litigant, a technologist specialising in CMS administrative infrastructure, and the designer of the TLS-W๐น
Total Legal System โ AI Litigation Weapon, I bring a rare combination of experience to this task. The TLS-W๐น is, in essence, the system we are using โ the design is already there; we are simply applying it to a different problem domain. Imagine instead of filling out forms uploading chaotic piles of PDFs, appellants are given their own living digital space โ a fully structured, intuitive mini-website.
On a desktop or laptop, each main dropdown menu represents a core principle or benchmark. Each dropdown submenu represents a key point of significance within that principle, and each side menu links to supporting evidence files. Itโs a visually satisfying, easy-to-navigate structure โ ideal for judges reviewing on a laptop, juries viewing on a big screen, and fully mobile-compatible for appellants who rely on smartphones rather than computers. The only difference is that on mobile, the menu behaves more like a filing system. Using TLS-Wโs benchmark scoring system, appellants would receive real-time point feedback as they present their case. High point totals would indicate well-prepared, coherent submissions; low scores would signal where additional evidence or explanation is needed, or that the case is not strong enough and one should not waste one's time. Today, judges, clerks, and tribunal staff must manually sort, understand, and evaluate disorganised evidence โ often hidden inside broken uploads or fragmented across many files. Our solution presents everything in a clear, navigable format, designed both for human judges and AI pre-validation. Instead of 300 pages of random documents, a judge would explore a structured, logical website, seeing the flow of argument and evidence at a glance.sienna.gov.uk
, we propose creating the first prototype within either the UKRI ecosystem or the HM Courts and Tribunals service.
Prospective Case Study 1:
Courts and Tribunals Digital Transformation โ๏ธโ๏ธ๐service.gov.uk
platform, we create a clean new subdomain โ sienna.gov.uk
โ from which different specialist services can branch. For HM Courts and Tribunals, the prototype would be housed at sienna.gov.uk/HMCTS
.
This project would be built through Domain-Driven Design (DDD) โ a methodology focused on fully understanding the business or problem domain and creating a solution tailored precisely to it.
As Steve Jobs and Bill Gates famously agreed, the reason they succeeded so profoundly was because "they were creating software for themselves."
To visualise this, simply look at the SiennaAI.net website you are currently browsing.This benefits the appellant by improving their case โ and it benefits administrators and judges by streamlining review and validation. In each and every case before assessing administrators and judges will be able to see the score given by the AI system, for each of the benchmarks of the case . Without doubt, in every case, justice will be better served.
While some might worry that this could encourage a surge in appeals, our integrated validation and scoring systems would actually help manage caseloads by strengthening good cases and identifying weak ones early. It is not about flooding the courts โ it is about bringing fairness, clarity, and 21st-century technology to a system still visibly suffering from software that was literally built in the last century, and even then was not built well.
The output of the CMS can look like both: a traditional website navigation or a structured document filing system. In fact, if you look at the navigation on the mobile version of SiennaAI.net, youโll see exactly that โ a beautifully organised hierarchy of menus and submenus.
Users would be able to choose their preferred filing style: standard dropdown menus, folder-based layouts, or a combination. Uploading evidence, data, or products becomes intuitive and deeply structured. Everything is designed so that as the user builds their material, AI assists โ suggesting where each item should be filed, identifying primary sections, proposing cross-links where needed.
In every case, the CMS filing system is the heart. In courts and tribunals, the focus would be on evidence structuring. In healthcare, it would focus more on AI-guided triage and diagnosis. In litigation, it would score and benchmark legal cases, transforming how justice is prepared and delivered.
This intense focus on filing systems comes directly from the business engine behind Sienna AI: the Swapping Menus Function.
In the commercial model, users can plug menus โ entire sets of products, services, or evidence collections โ into each otherโs systems, earning referral percentages based on activity. Without perfectly structured filing systems, none of that would work. At โ๏ธSienna AIโ๏ธ Filing is not just administrative โ itโs our economic infrastructure.
Right now on SiennaAI.net, weโre using an S-Web 5.2 structure (old PHP) and beginning to prototype the new CMS systems in React. As soon as Microsoft start up Azure credits are secured, we'll dynamically integrate GPT-4 and Copilot for backend filing and suggestions.
๐ S-Web 6 VC AI CMSโs potential extends far beyond individual appeals โ it could transform the entire Courts and Tribunals Service, and with it, the UKโs broader legal and law enforcement ecosystem.
Take the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police. Today, disorganised evidence management wastes countless hours and causes significant delays. In November 2022, while completing a seven-page police form, I experienced this firsthand โ the system crashed on page six after hours of work. This is another example of GDS Government Digital Service CMS inefficiency.
Designed for intuitive organisation, deploying S-Web 6 VC CMS structures documentation for fast retrieval, and AI integration โ agencies like the CPS and police forces could dramatically accelerate casework, enhance public interaction, and prepare for systems like Palantirโs advanced analytical platforms, which famously helped locate Osama Bin Laden โ proving how structured, machine-readable data can change outcomes.
Of the courts' workload, 55% is dedicated to criminal cases, 20% to civil cases, 10% to DWP and welfare appeals, 10% to alternate tribunals, and 5% to other specialist areas.
Despite the dedication of court staff, the UKโs justice system struggles under outdated technology. As of 2024, over 73,000 criminal cases are waiting for trial in the Crown Courts and nearly 63,000 immigration and asylum appeals are pending. Without radical improvement, these backlogs will only grow.
Originally designed for human resources, and now refined through extensive study of behavioural science, we are confident we could build a system that flags and pursues fraudulent appeals โ balancing accessibility with integrity.
This approach would support genuine claimants while helping detect inconsistencies that point to potential fraud โ ensuring fairness without spiraling costs.
In economic terms, improvements to the appeals system would likely have a neutral net effect โ but the gains in public safety, trust, and judicial efficiency would be immense.
Moreover, strengthening police and CPS administration and improving the management of civil and criminal cases would reduce systemic frustration, prevent backlogs, and ultimately help prevent unrest โ reinforcing the stability of the social fabric itself.
This case study can be considered a bonus example โ it does not directly address CMS design, but instead demonstrates the power of adapting the GP-AI Gatekeeper concept for HMRC operations. The relevance is clear: GP-AI Gatekeeper is built atop the same S-Web 6 VC AI CMS architecture, and this example showcases how Gatekeeper-style logic can accomplish tasks even HMRC staff cannot consistently handle โ and with no additional human training required.
The case in question is discussed in full detail here: ๐๏ธ๐ป๐๏ธ HMRC: Autofill Bug Problem from 2017 Not Fixed in 2025 โ ๐ต๏ธ Is the Service Being Retired Because of This Bug?. Although HMRC is reportedly retiring its corporate tax CMS in 2026, this remains a live opportunity: the same Gatekeeper logic could be adapted across income tax, self-assessment, VAT, and beyond โ dramatically simplifying the process for citizens while reducing excuses for non-compliance.
GP-AI Gatekeeper was originally designed to replace receptionists and assist doctors by using a points-based hierarchical logic tree to guide conversations and extract vital information. Applied to HMRC, the same structure would interact with users as they complete tax returns, gently guiding them through each section and ensuring that no crucial details are missed โ all without overwhelming technical language or bureaucratic confusion.
While still rough, this 5-hour video documents my own experience navigating the Corporation Tax return process โ a task so complex that even senior HMRC support staff could offer little assistance. In two previous one-hour sessions with Adam and Jess from HMRC support, both confirmed that if an AI-based assistant could solve these user challenges, it would be "amazing." It is not only possible โ it is already achievable today with GPT-4, and even more so with a dedicated Gatekeeper adaptation.
Economically, the logic is simple: making tax returns easier increases compliance and revenue. Every other investment the UK makes depends on getting this first principle right.
On ๐๏ธ โDF96h5a โ UKRI Only Disrupt Low HMRC Tax Companies, this idea emerged: If HMRC were to implement a GPT-4-based assistant โ such as the GP-AI Gatekeeper adapted to tax โ not only would users receive live, intelligent guidance during their filing process, but every interaction would be recorded. These help chats, in turn, could serve a powerful secondary function: fraud detection.
Two key outcomes follow:
This transforms what was once a passive help service into an active layer of fraud prevention โ without punishing honest users. As Nick put it: โIf you go to HMRC with the intention to commit fraud, Iโm not going to make your life any easier.โ
Itโs a small section in scope, but monumental in implications: making taxes easier + fraud harder = more compliance, less bureaucracy, and increased national revenue. All through one scalable GPT-based logic system.
โ๏ธSienna AI Gatekeeper๐ก๏ธ Is The 'VC' (Voice Command) AI in S-Web 6 VC AI CMS
The story of what S-Web 6 VC AI CMS could achieve for UKRI was first explored in ๐ S-Web 6 VC AI CMS โ A Much Stronger UKRI Validation Process.
The original investigation ๐ต๏ธ begins by highlighting how our application could have been written by AI โ in a way that appeared technically feasible, but wasnโt. Yet without the ability to add links or supporting detail, there was no way for judges to tell the difference between a highly achievable outcome and AI-generated nonsense. The article continues to expand on this issue before arriving at the proposed solution: S-Web 6 VC AI CMS โ A Much Stronger UKRI Validation Process.
The S-Web Story is told in four segments:
The current UKRI/Innovate UK CMS locks applicants into rigid, text-only forms โ has no dynamic content, videos or AI assistance. Thereโs no way to validate ideas, collaborate or build connections between teams and submissions. Even working links are unsupported, so no one can prove what they claim.
This isnโt just outdated โ itโs software literally built in the last century, as shown in The GDS Gov.uk CMS Problem. Thereโs no capacity for AI-powered validation process, no ability to track goals or showcase results.
S-Web 6 VC AI CMS fixes this by turning each application into a compact, fully structured webpage โ complete with video introductions, linked references, and optional bonus content.
Instead of judges printing out basic CMS forms, they get a single, navigable page with every answer in one place โ easier to read, easier to evaluate, and ready for AI pre-assessment.
While still a work in progress, the live example shows exactly what's possible: siennaai.net/GP-AI-Gatekeeper.php.
S-Web began in 2002 with CapeVillas.com (S-Web 1 โ Desktop only), a CMS that let every team member upload content, add photographs, and manage listings in real time โ features Innovate UKโs CMS still lacks. In 2006, we built an affiliate booking system connecting villa owners with global travel companies. In 2010, we attempted full project duplication with S-Web 2 โ but poor bug reporting led to its abandonment and a critical lesson learned.
In 2013, we created S-Web 3, integrating old databases with a new point-based CMS logic system, where features were scored โ for example, seven pool types from plunge pool (20 points) to spectacular-length pool (200 points). This logic grew into S-Web 4, introducing the โMy Favourites, My Websiteโ tool, designed to influence group decision-making. We added APIs to retrieve live availability and pricing, built the S-Web CDS Content Delivery System, the TBS-CC Company Controller, and evolved our scoring logic from the NickRayBot to the SiennaBot IA AI, culminating in the Nudge CRM AI and UCS Hawthorne OKRs, blending perfect information with behavioural science.
In 2019, S-Web 5 successfully demoed the principle behind the Swapping Menus Function by adding an Experience Africa menu to Cape Villas.
Without lifting a finger, Cape Villas earned $10,000 when a client booked a safari โ passive income generated simply by hosting a menu. It was a powerful validation of the Villa Secrets Franchise Model.
By 2021, the S-Web 5.1 Row Widget CMS enabled Lux Guides.com to build a homepage in just 51 seconds, launching alongside updated sites for Cape Villas, Experience Africa, Villa Secrets, Luxury Safari, and Villas Cafรฉ. This marked the start of S-Webโs challenge to WordPress โ claiming up to 60,000x faster growth potential via interconnected networks.
In 2022, S-Web 5.2 was repurposed for generic use cases such as personal blogs, grant submissions, and investor pitches. The Sienna AI site youโre using now is built on S-Web 5.2. But to deliver features like the Swapping Menus Function, voice command, app generation, and full AI integration โ in early 2023, we began designing S-Web 6: a new CMS built on everything weโve learned since 2002.
S-Web 6 is not just a CMS upgrade โ itโs a global disruptor in website and app creation. On one front, it challenges WordPress for its 40% share of the global website market. On the other, it redefines digital infrastructure as the foundation for Economic AI. The future of digital infrastructure isnโt built on static websites โ itโs built on systems that think.
Similarly, the future of search wonโt be dictated solely by external engines; what the AI knows and where it sources its answers from is becoming more important than traditional rankings.
In this landscape, AI built directly into websites becomes the key to discoverability. Itโs no longer about search engine optimisation โ itโs about language model optimisation, embedded directly into the CMS.
Thatโs why S-Web 6 is integrating AI at the heart of the CMS Mothership ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ๏ธ โ transforming every site into a living, evolving ecosystem. Comments, reviews, and activity dynamically trigger updates. Large language models like GPT-4 act not as tools, but as embedded operating systems โ wired to microservices, APIs, and live content feedback loops. With Voice Command CMS functionality, S-Web 6 becomes self-updating: pages rewritten by AI with the credibility and freshness of a news site.
Post-competition, these sites become ongoing innovation hubs. Comment sections invite public and peer engagement. AI evaluates the feedback, updates project pages, and even helps co-author refinements.
Entries arenโt judged once โ they evolve continuously as UKRI gains real-time, post-competition tracking data: awarding future bonus points to past winners who succeed โ and identifying companies whose ideas didnโt live up to expectations, excluding serial offenders from the process.
And thanks to the Swapping Menus Function, project pages can earn passive income, link to complementary technologies, or share resources โ creating decentralised innovation networks that grow stronger together. One projectโs progress becomes anotherโs solution. The entire ecosystem becomes collaborative, compounding, and economically self-sustaining.
But this isnโt just a tech upgrade. S-Web 6 VC AI CMS is the product of 14 years of macroeconomic AI design โ entangled with foundational projects like S-World.biz (2011), American Butterfly (2012โ13), Network.VillaSecrets (2014โ17), Angel Theory (2016โ20), S-RES Financial Engineering (2012โ21), The S-World Algorithms (2012โ22), and the Sienna AI UK Butterfly Project Podcast ๐๏ธ (2024)
15 June 2025
Dear reader,
At this point, I shifted from government software critique to what I enjoy most โ and what โ๏ธSienna AIโ๏ธ is ultimately about: Economic AI.
Unfortunately, this pivot coincided with the urgent need to manage my own medical administration and the legal nightmare documented in First One Back โ The Fraudulent Discharge. That diversion gave rise to T2. TLS-W๐น โ our AI litigation weapon โ but itโs not the path Iโd hoped to take. This pattern has haunted my work since 2011: every time I get close, something intervenes. And yet, I continue. For now, the rest of this section became too long for this page, and has been moved to its own dedicated space: The Economics of AGI โ Foundation.
Below is our signature graphic โ the latest design in the Sienna AI series โ showing how S-Web 6 became Technology One of a much larger framework that has evolved steadily since the year 2000. This is T10T: The Ten Technologies of Sienna AI.
To the pioneers of artificial intelligence โ many of whom are building AGI under the assumption that it will eventually solve the worldโs social and economic problems โ we offer this: DeepMind says, โSolve intelligence โ and let that solve everything else.โ But no one yet knows how AGI will operate at the political, economic, or social level. There is no roadmap.
Weโve been working on exactly that roadmap since 2011. It remains the only comprehensive macroeconomic framework for AGI in existence. Where others focused on the mind, we focused on the world the mind would live in. Where others tried to solve intelligence, we tried to solve capital. T10T by Sienna AI is a responsible growth engine โ and of the Ten Technologies, only the tenth is AI. The other nine build the real-world infrastructure that intelligence will need if itโs to benefit humanity at scale.
To explore further:
๐ทโ๏ธThe Economics of AGI โ Foundation๐งฑ (The original text from this page)
๐ทโ๏ธThe Economics of AGI โ Overview
Before we dive further, a quick note: Due to the legal urgency surrounding First One Back โ The Fraudulent Discharge and the resulting priority of building out our AI legal systems โ particularly T2. TLS-W๐น โ we werenโt able to devote the month we had planned to this section.
Fortunately, the groundwork had already been laid. In May 2025, we developed three essential pages that form the backbone of this case study. Each offers insight into how the UKRI grant process can be strengthened โ not just administratively, but economically and strategically:
We begin with the first and most technical: the UKRI AI Grant Assessment System.
This line of questioning โ how AI-generated grant applications can mislead even experienced reviewers โ first emerged during our work on โ๏ธโ๏ธGP-AI Gatekeeper 2025.
Stage 10 of that 16-stage design addressed what we believe is the NHSโs most critical structural problem:
Stage 10. Eliminate Medical Record Fraud
Addresses the NHS's biggest systemic issue by ensuring accurate records, reducing cascading misdiagnoses.
During testing, GPT-4o โ referencing only the summarised version above โ ad-libbed a polished solution: "The GP-AI Gatekeeper incorporates mechanisms to detect and flag inconsistencies or fraudulent activities within medical records. By ensuring the authenticity of patient data, healthcare providers can make informed decisions, and trust in the healthcare system is bolstered."
On paper, it sounded credible. But in reality, it was completely unworkable. NHS medical records are fragmented across multiple health trusts, inconsistent, and often span over 500 pages per patient. They are not easily converted into AI-readable formats. And any automated analysis is fraught with legal and privacy concerns โ the same issues that derailed DeepMindโs ยฃ250M NHS partnership, despite being led by co-founder Mustafa Suleyman himself.
By contrast, the actual Sienna AI solution is simple and scalable. GPT-4o acts as the receptionist, recording the patientโs spoken account, reading it back for verification, and submitting the memo to the GP. That memo becomes part of the record โ in the patientโs own words. This single feature eliminates a major source of fraud: the deliberate omission of negligence-related data by clinicians seeking to avoid GMC scrutiny or litigation.
This design didnโt come from AI alone. It came from the partnership between a human with real-world experience and a language model with technical fluency. Thatโs how Sienna AI operates: human + AI, always. But the lesson here is critical โ left alone, AI can produce ideas that sound impressive but collapse under practical scrutiny.
And this is personal. Due to a cascade of medical record fraud โ culminating in a dangerously misprescribed nerve agent (Lyrica/Pregabalin) โ our founder has been denied appropriate neurological care for over three years. Only last week we found out every specialist involved, from GP to surgeon, failed to document the truth.
This isnโt an isolated case; it's part of a wider culture of omission dating back to early 2000s mass tort legal reform. Our ongoing legal case now underpins the development of TLS-W๐น โ our AI litigation weapon.We believe the scale of medical record fraud in the UK is extreme โ and one of the largest hidden contributors to NHS waiting lists.
Our 16-module Gatekeeper system was forecast to deliver between ยฃ112Bโยฃ147B per year in productivity and public savings. That is exactly the kind of innovation UKRI should be funding.
And yet, in a cruel twist, our application โ co-authored by human and AI โ was disqualified due to formatting limitations in the outdated CMS still used by Innovate UK. The irony: the very digital infrastructure weโre seeking to replace was responsible for blocking one of the only solutions that could fix the system itself.
Meanwhile, purely AI-written entries โ built by services like Grantify โ are flooding the system with polished but often hollow applications. With no scalable way to tell the difference, Innovate UK appears overwhelmed. We estimate that up to 66% of its ยฃ8.8B allocation may now be consumed by internal admin. If this continues, no amount of grant funding will save UK innovation โ because the process is broken at the root.
This story became the foundation of our applied research, which weโve documented in detail here:
๐ UKRI AI Grant Assessment System
by Nick Ray Ball and Sienna 4o๐ฐ๏ธ๐พ (The โSpecial Oneโ)
3 May 2025
This page is part of our GDS (Government Digital Service) GOV.UK CMS Problem/Solution series and offers more than just a cautionary tale. It provides a research-backed approach to AI-assisted grant validation. Our tests show that when GPT-4 is given complex scoring instructions for a single submission, the results are inconsistent. But when itโs shown two entries and asked a simple question โ โwhich is better?โ โ the answers become clear, reliable, and actionable.
This method isnโt just useful for spotting AI-generated content. Itโs useful full stop. Humans can write nonsense, too โ and this system catches both. Weโre not offering software. Weโre offering insight. This technique can be replicated by UKRI or any agency without needing to license anything from us. Just apply the comparative model. That alone will dramatically improve grant evaluation fairness and impact.
AI-generated submissions can sound convincing โ especially when structured around official scoring rubrics. But when we tested GPT-4o using real-world grant prompts, it often preferred its own polished but superficial answers over original ideas grounded in practical experience.
That changed when we flipped the format. Instead of asking GPT-4o to assign points against a fixed rubric, we simply gave it two submissions โ one real, one AI โ and asked: Which is better? The result: GPT-4o reliably picked the stronger, human-led concept and did so with high confidence.
This taught us something important. In the age of generative AI, traditional assessment methods donโt work โ not because theyโre too complex, but because theyโre too simple in the wrong way. To make fair comparisons, we must lean into what AI actually does well: reasoning by example.
Thatโs why we propose a new approach: pairwise comparison. Each entry is tested against another โ judged purely on ingenuity, originality, and feasibility. This method:
The implications go far beyond grant funding. This process could work equally well in reviewing PhD proposals, published research, or startup accelerator applications. Anywhere a written submission is judged on merit, this method applies.
Crucially, itโs not about filtering AI out โ itโs about recognising substance over style. Weโre not arguing against AI involvement. In fact, our own entry โ co-written by Nick Ray Ball and GPT-4o โ was stronger because of that collaboration. But what weโve proven is this:
Even the best human ideas can be beaten by generic AI if judged the wrong way.
But judged the right way โ the meaningful way โ the real thing wins.
To read the full testing breakdown, cost analysis, and future roadmap:
๐ UKRI AI Grant Assessment System
Right now, UKRI's innovation framework is fragmented, inefficient, and failing to realise its full potential. Its ยฃ8 billion annual budget is scattered across hundreds of disconnected projects, each treated in isolation, never truly contributing to something greater than the sum of its parts.
But what if it did?
What if, instead of funding a collection of disjointed experiments, UKRI operated like a master architectโcurating, connecting, and entangling every funded project into one singular, world-changing vision?
Thatโs what Sienna AI and S-Web 6 can enable.
Take medical AI. A while ago, I spoke with a multi-competition-winning company developing AI-powered scanning technologies. Their work was impressive โ but it was just one of many teams worldwide doing the exact same thing.
Will their work lead to a breakthrough? Maybe. Will it be patentable? Probably not. Will it be remembered in five years? Unlikely.
But now imagine if all of these grant-winning medical AI projects โ every fragmented piece of UKRI-funded research โ were brought together into something truly revolutionary.
Imagine if the technology developed in these projects wasnโt just buried in academic PDFs, but actively deployed into a national, AI-powered healthcare system.
Consider Stage 16 of GP-AI Gatekeeper โ a โfutureโ concept where patients receive their scan results before theyโve even stood up. Not in a decade. This year.
The scan itself takes seconds. The data can instantly be fed into LLMs โ potentially trained on models UKRI already funded. The results can be interpreted in real time. The only thing stopping this is the lack of integration, ownership, and vision.
Right now, it canโt happen. Because UKRI doesnโt own the technology it funds. It doesnโt unify its investments. It doesnโt think in ecosystems.
And thatโs not a missed opportunity โ thatโs a fundamental failure in national innovation strategy.
With Sienna AI (S-Web 6), the UKRI ecosystem could be transformed. Not with a basic CMS we outperformed in 2002 โ but with a platform built for collaboration, continuity, and AI-driven growth.
This isn't just about healthcare โ it applies to every sector UKRI touches.
And yet, thereโs still no searchable database of funded researchers. No way to query who can code LLM integrations. No way to find someone who can replicate foundational models like DeepSeek or work with OpenAI APIs. Despite funding thousands of projects, UKRI still lacks a discoverable talent network.
Why? Because the system is designed to silo. Whether by oversight or by design, it ensures that the same groups win repeatedly โ with little collaboration, minimal accountability, and no path to large-scale transformation.
With Sienna AI and the OKR system, the UK could do what no country has done before: build an AI-first, collaboration-driven, fully integrated innovation ecosystem.
One that doesn't just fund ideas โ it grows them. One that doesn't just publish outcomes โ it tracks them. One that doesnโt leave results to chance โ it guides them through data and design.
This would be a global export product โ not just for the UK, but for every innovation economy.
Because a system like this doesnโt exist anywhere else.
With Sienna AI, UKRI wouldnโt just fund projects โ it would fund the future.
This isnโt about better grant forms. This is about building the ecosystem that makes world-changing breakthroughs inevitable.
This is how the UK stops lagging behind.
This is how the UK leads.
๐ The question isnโt whether UKRI should do this.
๐ The question is: how long will they wait before they realise they must?