Internal planning session notes

Common Interest Computing

Custodia Continuity / CIC Planning Session, March 2026

Vision

A CIC that uses agentic development to give public sector, nonprofit and commercial organisations ownership of their software. The stated mission is digital sovereignty, meaning that software is owned by the organisations that use it. The intended long-term outcome is that clients no longer need the organisation.

Core Principles

Business Model

Income from day rates and infrastructure hosting only; no software licensing.

Sector Coalition Model

Where individual organisations can’t fund development alone, we help them form coalitions. A group of charities sharing a common problem can together fund ongoing development and jointly own the result.

The Node Model

We help capable organisations establish their own internal software organisations. Hospital trusts, academy trusts, and others can spin up their own nodes. We provide legal frameworks, hiring guidance, tooling, and culture. Engineers leaving to start new nodes elsewhere is welcomed and expected.

Infrastructure

Each problem owner gets their own Debian Linux server: web app and Git server combined. Full stack: repositories, agent system prompts, documentation, automated backups, control panel. Hosted through a UK B-Corp partner, which is the permanent exit path. Clients stay hosted until ready to self-host.

Agentic Development Framework

Engineers will not inspect the majority of code that ships. The 2026 priority is to build a framework intended to make this safe:

The organisation will use the framework on its own work first.

Go-To-Market

Start with practitioners who have pressing problems, not with procurement teams. Solve one problem well and at low cost, and document all of the work. Use the existing programme to deliver the first 5–10 projects before the CIC launches.

Timeline

Key Risks