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I am excited to announce that I have been awarded the Sitecore Technology MVP 2025. I was one of only 241 MVPs worldwide selected this year. Congratulations to all #SitecoreMVP #Sitecorecommunity

Amidst understandable concerns of AI dystopia, no one is offering a positive vision for how we can use AI to remake our institutions and reinvent how we govern. That’s what I try to offer today. My argument is that we need an explicit research agenda to build “political superintelligence.” Here’s my case: AI makes intelligence cheap and widely available, just as the printing press made information cheap and widely available—and that earlier revolution ultimately reshaped governance and society to our benefit. To capture this benefit quickly, we need to build political superintelligence: a set of tools that help citizens, representatives, and institutions perceive the world more accurately, understand tradeoffs, contest power, and act more effectively. I divide this research agenda into three layers: 1. The information layer: AI can make voters and governments dramatically smarter, but only if we fix political bias in models, improve the quality of sources AI draws on, and build trust through better performance. 2. The representation layer: AI can serve as tireless delegates acting on our behalf in political processes—monitoring government, filing comments, flagging decisions—but only if we solve preference drift, adversarial vulnerability, and the fundamental problem that we don't own our own agents today. 3. The governance layer: Even if we get the first two layers right, the infrastructure sits inside privately controlled companies. We need binding constitutional frameworks that distribute power, constrain companies, and ensure political superintelligence serves citizens rather than executives or shareholders. Each of these layers has a concrete, tractable set of research questions: better evals, geopolitical forecasting as a test case, governance experiments at small scale, agentic simulations, and institutional designs modeled on centuries of constitutional thought. The window for building these structures is narrow, and the right response is not to slow AI down but to speed up how fast we build the institutions that keep us free as AI grows more powerful. As Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” I hope you’ll read the full piece (linked below), which serves as a sort of manifesto for the Free Systems Lab, and that you’ll join me in the defining political economy research question of our time.

Team Horizon wrapped up @Sitecore Hackathon 2026-built an LLMS.txt generator widget to make Sitecore sites AI‑ready.Not smooth, but worth it. tinyurl.com/SCLLM #SitecoreHackathon2026 #SCHackathon #Sitecore #Hackathon #SitecoreAI #SitevoreMVP #AvanadeDoWhatMatters @Avanade

Team Horizon is live for @Sitecore Hackathon 2026 - Team are deep in the build, figuring things out as we go. It’s messy, fun, and very real. Good luck to everyone joining! #SitecoreHackathon2026 #SCHackathon #Sitecore #Hackathon #SitecoreAI #SitevoreMVP #AvanadeDoWhatMatters

💡#Foundry IQ creates a separation of concerns between domain knowledge and agent logic, RAG and grounding at scale. You can learn more on my blog👉 Foundry IQ – Agentic retrieval solution – 360Agileweb.dev #AI #ArtificialInteligence #Agentic #MicrosoftFoundry

That’s a wrap. #Sitecore City Tour. Looking forward to networking

Next is #Sitecore Panel: Straight from Symposium: Jacqueline Baxter and Ruadhán Barry, a panel of Sitecore leaders about all the exciting features of #SitcoreAI and more #Sitecorecommunity #AI #SitecoreSYM

Good summary on Real-world insights with #SitecoreAI by Robert McGovern #Sitecore Optimization Consultant @RemarkableXCP #Sitecorecommunity

London #Sitecore User Group happening now

#Sitecore Symposium 2025 is here! The overarching theme, “Next is Now,” acknowledges that AI has profoundly altered consumer behavior. For an executive summary and curated list of sessions on everything AI, visit my post 360agileweb.dev/2025/10/31/the… #SitecoreSYM #NEXTisNOW

We are kicking ⚽️off the @premierleague weekend 🎇 @afcbournemouth! Please @bottomike kindly give a shout out to Shayne Pitman who’s celebrating his 7th #birthday tomorrow and he is here watching the #BOUFUL match tonight. Come on 💪you #cherries 🍒🍒#AFCB #EPL

Next up is Optimizing your Content Hub development - Free Workshop #SUGCON #sitecore #sitecoremvp #sitecorecommunity #antwerp #belgium

Early start with #SUGCON EUROPE #sitecore XM/XP to XM Cloud Best Practices - Free Workshop - Sponsored by #Brimit #sitecorecommunity #SitecoreMVP #xmcloud

@DouglasLayah @Official_BRWFC @FAWNL @AFCBournemouthW Nice game today and thank you for the photo! All the best for rest of the season ⚽️⚽️

@360AgileWeb @Official_BRWFC @FAWNL @AFCBournemouthW Was great to meet you!

7️⃣0️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ Is the attendance for this afternoon’s @FAWNL fixture. 👏 Thank you to everyone who has come down! #UTG | #BristolRovers

Done! It was nice to participate during this #SCHackathon #Sitecorecommunity thanks @nrashmy and all the best to all #Sitecore #hackers! #InternationalWomensDay

How is everyone doing? Got you #SitecoreCLI working? #SCHackathon #Sitecorecommunity #Sitecore #InternationalWomensDay #TeamHorizon

Excited, let us do this! #TeamHorizon #SCHackathon #Sitecore #Sitecorecommunity