--- title: "Bilby" description: "What Bilby is: unique data, expertise and software for reading what governments do, who it is for, and common questions." url: "https://bilby.ai/" markdown: "https://bilby.ai/index.md" index: "https://bilby.ai/llms.txt" --- > For agents: Bilby answers questions about what governments do, from documents collected at source and checked by research analysts. To ask Bilby yourself, connect to its MCP server at https://pulse.bilby.ai/mcp (setup: https://docs.bilby.ai/developers/mcp-server). Every page on this site is also markdown: add .md to its address, or send Accept: text/markdown. https://bilby.ai/llms.txt lists them all. # Government, decoded. Bilby makes regulation, compliance, and prediction software. Our mission is to harness AI to improve how the world is governed. [Try Bilby](https://pulse.bilby.ai/sign-up) · [Read the Help Center](https://docs.bilby.ai) *Picture: A globe that turns from city to city, marking each one as Bilby reads its official sources.* ## Unique data. Expertise. Software. ### Unique data Government activity, turned into data: over 75 million artifacts from 3,000+ sources in more than 40 countries. At its centre is a map of who decides: political actors and how they connect. ### Expertise Research analysts keep that map current and train the models. Our team is led by Oxford PhD founders, former BCG consultants and government advisors, so what Bilby tells you has been checked by people who know the system. ### Software > who decides indonesia’s nickel export ban? The Bilby app puts both to work. Ask in plain words, see who decides, chart what changed, get the brief, and let Radar keep watch for you. ## Use our unique data, tools, and predictions. Then let Bilby keep watch. Ask anything about Asia’s governments and Bilby answers like an analyst would, with sources. Then it draws who decides, charts what changed, writes the brief and watches the topic for you. - *Picture: A conversation in Bilby. The question: who decides China’s rare earth export controls, and how do they connect? Bilby answers that the State Council sets them and the Ministry of Commerce designs and runs them, cites 26 sources, and draws a diagram of the bodies involved, marking which are gaining influence.* - *Picture: A conversation in Bilby. The question: map Indonesia’s nickel export ban, and where did the smelting go? Bilby answers that Indonesia stopped all exports of raw nickel ore from 1 January 2020, cites 31 sources, and draws a map of Sulawesi and North Maluku with the three provinces where smelting gathered lit and their industrial parks marked: Morowali, Konawe and Weda Bay.* - *Picture: A conversation in Bilby comparing how Japan, South Korea and Singapore regulate AI. Bilby answers that only South Korea has a binding AI law, cites 19 sources, and makes a spreadsheet comparing each country’s law, how binding it is and when it took effect.* - *Picture: A conversation in Bilby about Vietnam’s personal data rules. Bilby answers that the Personal Data Protection Law took effect on 1 January 2026, cites 24 sources, draws a timeline of Decree 13, the Law on Data and the new law, and writes a one-page brief for a board as a Word document.* - *Picture: A conversation in Bilby using the Predictions Machine on Malaysia’s AI chip exports. Bilby says a Strategic Trade Permit has been needed since 14 July 2025, cites 22 sources, and lists three outcomes for the next year: the likeliest is closer checks on data centres that rent AI computing to Chinese firms, then the rules staying as they are, and least likely an outright Malaysian ban on re-exports.* ### Let Bilby keep watch Put a topic on Radar. Bilby checks it on a schedule, scores it red, yellow or green, and emails you when it changes. *Picture: A topic on Radar in Bilby: Indonesia equity market crisis, scored 4 out of 5, up from 3, with the email Radar sent when it turned red.* ### See what changed, and when Bilby Signals track risk and sentiment over time. Open one, find the major changes, then ask what moved it. *Picture: A Bilby Signal: the US-China Risk Index over three months, with a major change marked on 9 October and a button to ask what moved it.* ### Get the brief, not just the answer Timelines, charts, maps, diagrams, decks and Word documents, made from the sources and ready to share. *Picture: Outputs Bilby made from an answer: a bar chart of net foreign selling in Indonesia’s four big banks, and a Word document, indonesian_bank_risk_brief.docx.* - [Predictions Machine](https://docs.bilby.ai/daily-briefings/predictions-machine): Reads current news and signals and says what could happen next in a country, or across several at once. - [Work as a team](https://docs.bilby.ai/vaults/what-is-a-vault): Share conversations, files and instructions with colleagues, or with a client outside your organization. - [Automated analysts](https://docs.bilby.ai): Pick an analyst for a country, a sector or a type of analysis, and add it to your question in one click. ## The AI OS for governments For ministries, regulators and agencies. Bilby builds and runs analysis platforms on your own government’s activity, tuned to your settings and jurisdictions. - **Coordination.** Monitor deviations in messaging, direction, and movement from national and central plans and policy statements. - **Stakeholder maps.** Match statements to the people who made them, and see who is connected to whom. - **Policy.** Understand what has changed worldwide in a sector and how that compares to your government activity. - **Society.** Match government activity against media and online commentary, and test possible impacts of proposed changes. [What we do for governments](https://bilby.ai/sovereigns) ## Policy moves markets. See it first. For banks, funds, companies and individual analysts. Ask Bilby what a government is doing, who decides it and what it means for you. - **Investors.** See how changes in government sentiment, policy, and regulations affect any listed company. - **Public affairs.** Find who decides on your issue, and what could happen next by country and category. - **Compliance.** Put a regulation on Radar and get an email when it changes. - **Research teams.** Share Vaults of conversations, files and instructions, and get charts and briefs ready to send. [Try Bilby](https://pulse.bilby.ai/sign-up) - [Asia Daily Take](https://bilby.ai/asia#asia-daily-take): Bilby’s free daily newsletter on Asia’s governments. - [GCC Daily Take](https://bilby.ai/gulf/en#gcc-daily-take): The same daily read for the Gulf. ## Trusted by government agencies and Fortune 500 companies | Figure | Measure | Detail | | ------ | ----------------- | ------------------------ | | 130K+ | Entities | Extracted from documents | | 40+ | Countries covered | Global intelligence | | 80x | Processing speed | 2 days to 20 minutes | | 20+ | Expert team | Oxford PhDs, BCG alumni | ### 30%: Why this matters Government activity is nearly 30% of global GDP, and growing. Yet, existing AI solutions only gain analysts 30 minutes a week, rather than the 10-100x improvement that closed-loop systems like Bilby offer. Bilby also fills the existing need for solutions specific to the Middle East and Asia. ### 75M: How Bilby works Our custom AI models, a map of who decides, and multilingual processing turn government activity into hierarchical, clean data — and those data into software. We have already transformed over 75 million artifacts from 130,000 decision makers across more than 40 countries into marked-up data, creating predictive, actionable insights. ### 3,000+: Proven global impact Our platforms have already transformed over 75 million artifacts from 3,000+ sources across more than 40 countries, enabling efficient decision-making in areas like national security, regulatory compliance, economic development, and public engagement. We started with China and the US. We’re now going to the world. ## Common questions The ones we hear most. If yours is not here, ask us. [team@bilby.ai](mailto:team@bilby.ai) ### What is Bilby? Bilby turns what governments do into answers you can act on. It reads government documents at source, in their own languages, keeps a map of who decides, and puts both into an app you can ask. ### Who is it for? Governments, financial institutions and companies, and the individual analysts inside them. [For sovereigns](https://bilby.ai/sovereigns) · [For enterprise](https://bilby.ai/enterprise) ### What data does Bilby have? Gazettes, regulators, legislatures and official media, collected at source: over 75 million artifacts from 3,000+ sources. [See what Bilby reads](https://bilby.ai/data) ### Which countries do you cover? More than 40. We started with China and the US, and our deepest coverage today is across Asia and the Gulf. ### How is Bilby different from ChatGPT? Bilby answers from government documents collected at source and curated by research analysts who know these governments, so you get a specialist’s reading instead of an average of the internet. ### Can I trust the answers? Every answer links to the documents it came from, so you can check it. Research analysts keep the data and the models current. Bilby can still make mistakes, so check anything important. ### Is my data safe? Your conversations and files are not used to train models. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is by role, and activity is logged. ### Does it work with our systems? Yes. Bilby’s platforms use standard REST APIs, secure databases and cloud platforms, and there is an API for the app. ### How long does a government project take? If the data is not already available, projects usually aim for a five-month rollout: proof of concept, design and integration, testing, deployment and handover. ### How do I start? Sign in and ask your first question. For a government or a team, request a briefing and we will set Bilby up on the issues you choose. [Try Bilby](https://pulse.bilby.ai/sign-up) · [Request a briefing](https://bilby.ai/contact?about=briefing) ## Ask Bilby your first question. Sign in, ask in plain words, and put what matters on Radar. Each question opens Bilby with it typed in. - [Who decides China’s rare earth export controls?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=Who%20decides%20China%E2%80%99s%20rare%20earth%20export%20controls%3F) - [What will Bank Negara do in January?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=What%20will%20Bank%20Negara%20do%20in%20January%3F) - [What changed in Indonesia’s mining rules this month?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=What%20changed%20in%20Indonesia%E2%80%99s%20mining%20rules%20this%20month%3F) - [Who is gaining influence over Japan’s chip subsidies?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=Who%20is%20gaining%20influence%20over%20Japan%E2%80%99s%20chip%20subsidies%3F) - [What could happen next in the Gulf’s AI policy?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=What%20could%20happen%20next%20in%20the%20Gulf%E2%80%99s%20AI%20policy%3F) [Try Bilby](https://pulse.bilby.ai/sign-up) · [Read the Help Center](https://docs.bilby.ai)