How to build a high-impact AI team inside the state?
A practitioner account of the UK Incubator for AI, covering team formation, incubation, delivery and lessons from projects that did not scale.
Report · 2026Sources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 3 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Publication identity, author credits and stated scope.
- IGC — publication page
Title, publication date and five named authors.
- Practitioner playbook — cover and relevant chapters
Lead-author credit, incubation methods and discussion-paper status.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The September 2026 text is open to revision. Its programme outcomes have not been independently reproduced.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Alexander De Ville is the lead author, with Alex Jones, Liam Wilkinson, Sharif Kazemi and Shahrukh Wani. All five are retained in the citation, including authors without separate people records.
The playbook describes how i.AI selected and developed projects. Its cover identifies it as a discussion document open to revision. It is a practitioner account rather than an independent impact evaluation.
In the essays
- Your Country Needs Builders
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People
- Alexander De Ville
Author
- Liam Wilkinson
Author
Ideas
- Bias to action
Subject
- Institutional learning
Subject
- State capacity
Subject
Organisations
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/works/de-ville-incubator-playbook.md
Generated by codex/gpt-6 on 2026-10-03