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HackTheBrief

HackTheBrief

To empower, enable and enrich public servants to speedily access related data and provide an advantaged start point for assessment/ briefs/ related products

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🚀 Our Journey to empower, enable and enrich public servants to speedily access related data and provide an advantaged start point for assessments/ briefs/ related products

🔍 Problem Statement

Stakeholders use meeting briefs to effectively engage partners/suppliers in various settings, such as executive connect sessions, industry engagements, and others.

However, briefs are developed by staffers through a time-consuming process. This process is largely manual and can lead to inconsistencies and inaccuracies. This hinders effective decision-making and a lack of confidence in the brief.

💡 Solution: GovPartners

heading GovPartners - Empowering public servants with data-driven insights

GovPartners combines human sense making with LLM analysis and generation. By leveraging data from internal records and open-source insights, the platform delivers a cohesive brief that is approximately 70% complete, empowering users to refine and finalize it with minimal effort.

✨ Key Features

FeatureBenefit
📝 Summarizes Past NoMsUsers gain instant access to relevant historical data
📊 Provides Key Internal Data InsightsDisplays insights into supplier performance and footprints within Singapore government
⚡ Accelerates ProductivityUsers start from 70% completeness instead of zero, reducing time spent on manual preparation

🛠️ How It Works

  1. Login to GovPartner

    landing Page Clean, intuitive login interface

  2. Create an Engagement

    Enter the meeting agenda and the company to be engaged.

    Create Engagement Dialog User-friendly engagement creation form

  3. Generate Brief

    The system outputs a well-structured document enriched with valuable insights.

    The generated brief includes:

    • 🔍 Insights and research on the selected company
    • 📚 Past engagement summaries for situational awareness
    • ⭐ Information on the supplier's contract footprint and performance feedback for data-grounded context
    • 💬 Proposed Talking Points to guide meaningful discussions

    agenda Meeting agenda with clear structure

    company background Comprehensive company background information

    engagement Past engagement summaries for situational awareness

    talking points Talking Points to guide meaningful discussions


🎯 Impact and Outcomes

Feedback from potential users and general visitors was overwhelmingly positive. The prototype found traction with multiple GVT teams as well as with an external agency. Our potential users resonated with how the prototype can enable them start from the 70% start point, and be empowered with data insights.

Key outcomes included:

  • ⏱️ Improved Efficiency: Users reported that this product will enable them to save considerable time.

  • 🧠 Stronger Insights: Users reported that the integrated performance and easy access to engagement data will empower them with richer data context.

  • 🚀 Traction: Several teams in GovTech as well as one other team from another ministry has indicated interest to use the product.

  • 💼 Market Opportunity: Users are interested in being part of the product vision and there has been encouragement for us to tackle adjacent use cases

🔮 Future Steps

Our journey doesn't end here. If we get incubated, we intend to:

  • 🔬 Continue to research: Validate/reject newly discovered hypotheses and work in tandem with original/potential new users/problem owners

  • 🔄 Work on adjacent use cases: Explore the viability and value of adjacent use cases such as:

    • Executive self-service
    • Complex briefs and assessments
    • Platform to democratize data for digestible consumption
  • 👩‍💼 Executive self-service: Empower executives and staffers-to-executive to self-service access top brief related-FAQs

  • 📄 Flexible output formats: Customizable templates tailored for different use cases (assessments, different types of briefs, PQ, etc.)

  • 📊 Platform for digestible data: Enable users to consume insights and key data in digestible textual formats

  • 🔒 Shift left security: Mitigate potential risk early in the development process to reduce tech debt and security breaches

  • 🤝 Collaborate on data Integration: Follow-up on existing interest to integrate with platforms like SharePoint and M365

  • 🤖 Fine Tuning AI Generation Output: Improve the quality and consistency of outputs

👥 Team Members

The HackTheBrief team consists of individuals from various divisions:

  1. Ernest Ho - Team Lead (P&E)
  2. Jeremy Jee - Data and Engineering Co-lead (CIO Office Product Team)
  3. Chia Wen Kai - Data and Engineering Co-lead (MOM)
  4. Zac Low - UX Co-Lead (P&E)
  5. Tommy Wong - UX Co-Lead (Customs)
  6. Joel Chin - (Design Lead) (ICD)

Together, we combined our expertise in stakeholder engagement, user experience, product design and product engineering, to develop GovPartners — a meeting brief generator designed to supercharge productivity.