Councillors in pilot records
42
The retained pilot dataset covers the borough's current councillor records at the time of compilation.
Saxon Bridge Local Intelligence System
Turning fragmented local data into decision-ready intelligence.
A structured local-intelligence model in which material relationships carry a source, evidence status or unresolved-data flag.
StrategySystemsContent
42
Councillors in pilot records
14
Wards mapped
112
LSOAs structured
25
Structured data domains
15
Master issue maps
15
Evidence-backed issue maps
Evidence-led case studyBasildon pilot · Evidence system
42
Councillors in pilot records
14
Wards mapped
112
LSOAs structured
25
Structured data domains
15
Master issue maps
15
Evidence-backed issue maps
The strategic problem
Local political and civic intelligence is often spread across election results, council records, demographic datasets, ward boundaries, committee documents and disconnected local reporting. The useful relationships are difficult to see and harder to keep current.
The starting situation
The pilot needed to convert a large evidence base into something decision-ready without disguising uncertainty. Every important claim or relationship had to remain traceable to evidence or be visibly marked as unresolved.
Our role
The Basildon pilot was designed as a local intelligence system rather than a static report: a warehouse of structured evidence, issue maps and a decision-and-committee graph that can be updated as the locality changes.
How the work operated
More documents would not solve the problem. The value lay in a common data structure linking people, places, institutions, decisions and issues — then presenting the result around practical questions.
What we delivered
Built
- Structured political and geographic data model
- Evidence-status and source framework
- Decision and committee relationship graph
- Issue-map architecture across the borough
Produced
- Ward, councillor and LSOA records
- Master issue maps and evidence-backed issue maps
- Structured domains covering local conditions and institutions
- Presentation layer for decision-makers
Operated
- Evidence review and unresolved-data flags
- Cross-domain relationship mapping
- A repeatable framework for future locality updates
Evidence
Wards mapped
14
Political and issue evidence is organised across all recorded Basildon wards in the pilot.
LSOAs structured
112
Lower-layer Super Output Areas provide the neighbourhood-level geographic layer.
Structured data domains
25
The warehouse separates the major evidence domains while preserving their relationships.
Master issue maps
15
Issue structures organise evidence around the questions local decision-makers need to investigate.
Evidence-backed issue maps
15
Each material relationship carries evidence status, a source or an unresolved-data flag.
Pilot scope counts are taken from the retained Saxon Bridge project presentation and evidence model.
Outcome
The decisive improvement is not more data. It is traceability: knowing what is evidenced, what is connected and what still needs to be resolved before a decision is made.