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Designing to integrate AI - LinkedIn – 1

Designing to integrate AI into personalised government services

CYB’s Senior Service Designer Erlend Prendergast writes about how government can provide more personalised AI-enabled services with smart design decisions

01 May 2025

Large Language Models AI Service design

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The importance of research and user-centred design in healthcare

Drawing on her experience of the healthcare sector, CYB’s Lead User Researcher Anita Chandra writes about how the NHS can benefit from putting research and UCD at its centre

02 Apr 2025

Healthcare NHS Service design

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The AI Action Summit 2025: Progress, Promises and Pitfalls

As the Paris summit ends, CYB’s Head of Engineering Ali Salaman takes stock of the pros and cons and what it means for the future of AI

12 Feb 2025

AI in Government

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Improving FCDO guidance for British people abroad: how we unpublished 120 pages

How do you condense 120 pages of content into one clear and efficient page of guidance? CYB’s Content Designer Alison Evans writes about one of the key tasks she carried out for FCDO

21 Jan 2025

Government digital Digital transformation

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A Christmas letter, 2024

Founder/Managing Director Ben Stewart reflects on an eventful and successful year for CYB, and looks forward to 2025

18 Dec 2024

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Caution Your Blast named as supplier to Digital Capability for Health 2 Framework

CYB joins the likes of IBM, Ernst & Young and Thoughtworks onto the Crown Commercial Service’s list of 22 companies providing digital solutions to improve the NHS and other public sector healthcare bodies

12 Dec 2024

consulting NHS Digital transformation

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Problem Lenses: How and when should I use AI? - Part 3

Part 3 of Ali Salaman’s three-part series looks at how businesses can use AI to explore ideas and manage knowledge with large language models

21 Nov 2024

Large Language Models

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Problem Lenses: How and when should I use AI? - Part 2

Part 2 of Ali Salaman’s three-part series explores the potential for AI to help businesses with process automation and optimisation, promote ethical choices and translate text

20 Nov 2024

AI in Government Large Language Models

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Problem Lenses: How and when should I use AI? - Part 1

Part 1 of Ali Salaman’s three-part series looks at how AI could help businesses automate repetitive tasks, support complex decisions and generate insights from unstructured data

19 Nov 2024

Large Language Models AI in Government

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Webinars, a MeetUp and DL100 award nominations: CYB at Digital Leaders Week

Caution Your Blast have plenty of activity scheduled during DL Week from 14th-18th October – here’s everything we have planned

10 Oct 2024

Large Language Models

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How do you ensure performance when building AI services?

When building the FCDO’s first ever public-facing LLM service, CYB came through challenges to guarantee performance - our Head of Engineering Ali Salaman explains all

05 Sep 2024

Large Language Models AI Government digital

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What I learned conducting user research for an AI service

Building AI services means new ways of working. CYB’s User Researcher Truly Capell writes about what she learned working on the FCDO’s first public-facing AI-enabled service

24 Jul 2024

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Why AI won’t work without content design

CYB’s associate Content Designer Helen Gaskell writes about why we won’t be able to fully trust AI until we fix the information we feed it

10 Jul 2024

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Five ways being a carer makes me a better content designer

CYB’s Alison Evans writes about the life lessons she’s learned from caring for her son - and how those experiences help when it comes to content design

26 Jun 2024

Working parents Caring

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How Give A Little uses lean methods to make cashless fundraising more affordable

Give A Little’s Product Manager James Alden-John writes about how CYB’s point of donation software platform helps charities by adopting a lean approach

13 Jun 2024

Cashless giving

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Caution Your Blast announces launch of new UK Government AI-powered service

CYB has built a new innovative enquiry service for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that leverages Large Language Model technology – a first for the UK Government.

18 Apr 2024

Large Language Models Government digital AI

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Being honest about AI services: How much do users need to know?

As CYB helps the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to engineer LLM solutions, we’ve been asking – do users need to know that a service uses AI?

14 Mar 2024

Large Language Models Content design

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Caution Your Blast to help UK Government develop AI solutions

CYB to engineer Large Language Model (LLM) tools for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - helping both FCDO staff and British nationals

09 Jan 2024

Large Language Models AI Government digital

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A Christmas letter from CYB

With another exciting, challenging and rewarding year nearly over, CYB’s Founder and Managing Director Ben Stewart reflects on what 2023 has meant for the company

15 Dec 2023

AI Large Language Models

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A 1200km bike ride, exhibition photography and a wrestling showcase – what CYB did this year

When our team isn’t using digital as a force for good, they are busy following their own passions outside of work – here are the creative, fun and exciting things our team did this year

14 Dec 2023

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How CYB helped a government service reach 99.75% processing rate

Working with the FCDO on Emergency Travel Documents, CYB were able to improve the percentage of straightforward ETDs issued within 48 hours from 83%

09 Nov 2023

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What CYB would like to see at the Government’s AI Summit

As the UK Government hosts a historic AI Safety Summit, members of the CYB team write about the policies and outcomes they believe will help us use artificial intelligence ethically and responsibly

01 Nov 2023

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CYB Engineering Day: developing with LLMs for client solutions

Head of Engineering Ali Salaman writes about how his team continues to grow their expertise around Large Language Models

29 Sep 2023

Large Language Models

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Parenting at CYB: redefining yourself after maternity leave

Wrapping up our parenting blog series, our Head of Design Christine Fent writes about the challenges of returning to work after giving birth

31 Aug 2023

Maternity leave

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Parenting at CYB: what fatherhood taught me about running a business

Richard Grove writes about how bringing up two young children has influenced his role as CYB’s Director of Digital

17 Aug 2023

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Parenting at CYB: managing the work/life balance

In the first of our August series on parenting while working, CYB employees share their advice on how best to juggle your career with raising your children

08 Aug 2023

Working parents

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Small business and the quest for change

More than 99% of all UK businesses are defined as small - CYB founder Ben Stewart writes about how together they can help reshape society

20 Jul 2023

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Using AI as a “smart beginner” to quickly solve technical problems

CYB’s Associate Transformation Lead, David Farrell, writes about using CYB’s integrated version of ChatGPT to help circumvent a project roadblock

14 Jul 2023

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Writing for large audiences: how to make content-led projects a success

CYB’s associate Content Designer Graham Spicer writes about the importance of clear, concise, user-researched content when writing for large, varied audiences

20 Jun 2023

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Collaboration at CYB: how person-centric ways of working are at the heart of success

CYB’s Director of Digital, Richard Grove, writes about the ways to achieve constructive collaboration with new teams

01 Jun 2023

Caring consulting

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Research at CYB: Creating data validated user segments (part 2)

In the second of three blog posts, CYB’s Head of Research Katie John writes about how to set yourself up to make tailored hypotheses

24 May 2023

Introducing CYB’s research philosophy

Introducing CYB’s research philosophy

CYB’s Head of Research, Katie John, presents the key values and ideas that underpin our work in the area

12 May 2023

User Research Research Philosophy

CYB announces AI partnership with UK Research and Innovation

CYB announces AI partnership with UK Research and Innovation

Caution Your Blast will team up with the Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Sheffield with research to focus on Speech and Language Technologies

20 Apr 2023

AI, ChatGPT and Bing – what is the future of content?

AI, ChatGPT and Bing – what is the future of content?

With AI promising to revolutionise how we work and live, CYB’s Head of Content Shaun Curran considers what the rise of technology like ChatGPT means for content

13 Mar 2023

What place does innovation have at CYB?

Innovation at CYB: what does it mean?

At the start of month where Caution Your Blast is looking at innovation in tech, our Founder/Managing Director Ben Stewart considers what the term means in a modern context, and how we innovate at CYB

09 Mar 2023

CYB at Women in Tech: using linguistics in digital

CYB at Women in Tech: using linguistics in digital

CYB’s user researcher Sian Dunn writes about delivering a talk at Women in Tech, and why linguistics is an important tool in digital

09 Feb 2023

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CYB recommends: 10 books for Christmas

Are you short on gift ideas or simply looking for a new book to read over the holidays?

09 Dec 2022

CYB Recommendations

The power of kindness

The power of kindness

Following our "How CYB cares" series, Christine Fent reflects on the importance of kindness in the workplace

16 Nov 2022

Caring work relationships

Consulting the CYB way

Consulting the CYB Way - How to do things differently

CYB’s Director of Digital Richard Grove reflects on how his past work on the client side of consultancy has shaped how CYB operates today

18 Oct 2022

e-app goes live

How CYB is helping transform the legal profession with e-Apostille

Caution Your Blast Ltd announces the launch of the e-Apostille project in collaboration with the FCDO and the milestone it represents.

06 Oct 2022

How to run a successful hackathon

How to run a successful hackathon

CYB's head of engineering, Ali Salaman, shares all you need to know to organise a successful hackathon.

26 Sep 2022

IDC 2022

International charity day: Q&A with Give A Little

The mission of Caution Your Blast Ltd (CYB) has always been to use digital as a force for good, which is why back in 2019 we founded Give A Little, a digital fundraising platform that helps charities collect cashless donations.

05 Sep 2022

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Low-code, open source citizen services: solving the speed and cost challenges

This blog shares the story of the xGovFormBuilder - how it came about and how the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) services have benefited from being more efficient and effective through it.

31 Aug 2022

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Why working with the FCDO matters so much to CYB

CYB has partnered with the FCDO since 2019. Together we have thrived working on a range of projects that have progressed our core aim - to use digital as a force for good.

18 Aug 2022

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Why CYB is partnering with Climate Edge for its next hackathon

CYB and Climate Edge aim to help smallholder farmers upscale their business

17 May 2022

Climate Innovation Hackathon

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World Creativity and Innovation Day: How CYB use digital as a force for good

CYB highlights a project that helped emerging countries improve their digital capabilities

21 Apr 2022

Digital capability Government Innovation

Services week

Leveraging the XGov Form Builder

Earlier this month, Jen, our Senior Developer, gave a talk for Services Week on the open source, free-to-use, Cross Government Form Builder that we’ve been developing with a range of government departments and international collaborators.

01 Apr 2022

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Carbon Reduction Plan

Caution Your Blast Ltd (CYB) is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by October 31st 2025.

15 Nov 2021

Climate change Carbon reduction plan

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COP 26

CYB's founder, Ben Stewart, on the urgent need to align rhetoric and regulation

01 Nov 2021

National Work Life Week

Telltale signs that your work isn't conducive to your mental health

And how to take action to protect your work culture

13 Oct 2021

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What information is important?

In the information age, cutting through the noise is vital – as we found in our latest project with the FCDO

04 Feb 2021

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Christmas letter and announcing FCDO Digital Partner

Reflecting on an extraordinary year for CYB and beyond

17 Dec 2020

Hacktober

CYB x OSS: how we're making the most of Open Source

Using OSS technology to improve online services

08 Oct 2020

Rocket

Broadband boost for the country

£5 billion will be spent on the hardest-to-reach places in the UK.

27 Mar 2020

Digital service

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Data trends in 2020

How the 2020 tech landscape will change for data

11 Dec 2019

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Point of donation software service

Enabling the charity sector in a cashless society

11 Dec 2019

Cashless giving Give a little

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Charities to go contactless for Christmas

Software allows charities to collect cashless donations

11 Dec 2019

Give a little Cashless giving