Alfie Dennen
Product management · AI & digital government
Leading Assist (previously Redbox) and AI Ops at the Department for Business and Trade — production AI for 3,000+ civil servants handling Official-Sensitive data with a fully agentic architecture. Available for contract work.
What I deliver
- Production AI for government — agentic workflows, RAG, Knowledge Graphs, multi-agent orchestration, MCP integrations, built to handle Official-Sensitive data at scale
- GDS service assessment — led services through alpha, beta, and live assessments; trained Lead Service Assessor
- AI strategy & evaluation — AI governance and ethics, governance frameworks, cross-government collaboration on responsible AI adoption
- Product leadership — bridging data science, policy, and delivery teams to ship AI that works for real users
Recent work
- Assist (previously Redbox) at DBT — agentic AI platform for complex government knowledge work
- How generative AI is accelerating outcomes in DBT — Gov.uk Digital Trade Blog (Nov 2024)
Background
Over 20 years in digital. Founded Art Public — clients included Greenpeace, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Comic Relief, and Channel 4. Co-founded Moblog, one of Europe's first mobile-photo social networks. Launched We're Not Afraid within hours of the 7/7 bombings — 25,000 photos from around the world. Mapped public art for Channel 4 with Big Art Mob (three BAFTA nominations, RTS Innovation Award). Created Bus-Tops, 30 LED art screens on bus shelters across London for the 2012 Olympics. Won a Webby Award for Britglyph, a nationwide GPS geoglyph. Product strategy at Isobar, POSSIBLE, and &us. That depth informs everything I build now.