Policy sprints for
focused strategic learning.
Join a focused cohort when you need more than a reading list. CentPol sprints help you study a hard policy question and leave with a concrete output.
A focused learning format for policy strategy
Each sprint combines curated readings, live discussion, async exercises, peer review, and a final memo or pitch. You don't just consume content — you practice judgment with a serious cohort.
National AI Strategy Sprint
A five-week sprint for anyone working near national AI strategy — government officials, analysts, educators, civil society, industry teams, and AI governance practitioners. Many strategies fail because they're too vague, too narrow, or copied from another context. This sprint helps you ask the questions that make a strategy executable: compute, data, institutions, labor, sectors, safety, geopolitics, and metrics.
It ends with two decision-ready outputs: a two-page strategy memo and a three-minute pitch a senior leader can act on.
- 01The landscape: vision and the why-now
- 02The architecture: the 9-pillar map
- 03The engines: compute, data, and institutions
- 04Application: sectors, society, and posture
- 05Synthesis: metrics, memo, and pitch
The CentPol 9-pillar strategy map
You use the same nine-pillar map every week until it becomes a practical diagnostic for reading or designing an AI strategy.
- 1Vision and narrative
- 2Compute and digital infrastructure
- 3Data governance and public data assets
- 4Talent, skills, and R&D ecosystem
- 5Priority sectors and public sector transformation
- 6Governance, ethics, rights, and safety
- 7Institutions and implementation machinery
- 8International engagement and geopolitics
- 9Monitoring, metrics, and review
Join the next sprint
Register your interest and we'll let you know when the next cohort opens, or bring a sprint to your team.