In 2005, my first book Human Interactions was published. Astonishingly, at the time it was the first (and possibly may still be the only) formal theory of collaborative human work – a mathematical account of how people actually work together to get things done, and how to do it more effectively. Over many following years on the keynote circuit, I was repeatedly asked the same question: “Can you turn this into a product?”

Eventually, I made HumanEdj. Gartner recognised it with a Cool Vendor award in 2012, and its high point came when the NHS adopted it as the engine for NHS GATHER. This national Web platform for the UK gave healthcare innovators something new: a way to share validated success stories and give others a precise, executable plan for replicating them, automatically adapted to the stakeholder networks in which they worked.

In 2014, NHS GATHER won an NHS Innovation Award. Innovators loved it. Replicators loved it. And then in 2015 it disappeared in one of the many NHS restructurings of those years. Ten years on, nothing has replaced it – and the need for a system that can spread proven innovation across the NHS is, if anything, far more urgent.

So with the forthcoming release of Dedoctive AgenticFlow, I keep thinking the same thing: building NHS GATHER today would be so much easier.

Back then, managing the varied documents and data that explained an innovation was an organisational challenge, and workflow coding was a technical challenge. With Dedoctive AgenticFlow, both challenges are gone. You could build the equivalent knowledge model in minutes, into which innovators could simply drop in source materials – any format, any level of structure – and Dedoctive would handle the analysis. The workflow that helps potential adopters browse innovations then generate a customised replication plan? It would now be a matter of dragging a few boxes in a visual designer and describing, not programming, a couple of simple Web forms.

If anyone at NHS England Digital is reading this, I’d be delighted to talk.

More broadly: how about you? Do you have an idea for a transformative digital platform, and suspect AI could help, but don’t know where to begin? Dedoctive AgenticFlow is designed for exactly that situation. You don’t need to be an AI expert, or have any AI knowledge at all. You just need to know what you want. The system does the rest.

Watch this space. Soon we will make available a Developer Edition of Dedoctive AgenticFlow, and in 2026 Peter Lawrence (creator of Dedoctive) and I will start a series of blogs and videos explaining how it works. To stay up to date, just follow Dedoctive on LinkedIn:

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Keith Harrison-Broninski is an author, researcher, and keynote speaker specialising in cross-boundary collaboration, community antifragility, and technology for good. Keith’s awards include from Gartner for social enterprise and from the NHS for technology to replicate healthcare innovations.

Keith’s first book “Human Interactions” (2005) was described by Information Age as “the overarching framework for 21st century business technology”. Keith’s other books include two for Springer and three for the Workflow Management coalition. Keith’s most recent book “Supercommunities” (2021) was described by the Chief Executive of the RSA in his foreword as “Ranging from ancient history to economics to psychology to public policy ‘Supercommunities’ is both authoritative and highly readable. It puts our current challenges in context, shows why change is necessary and provides a trove of practical ideas for change makers.”

Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet, in a second foreword, wrote “Supercommunities offers a path away from social and economic meltdown … We will need to replace short-term thinking with long term planning and execution if we are to regain upward motion towards common benefit for everyone on Spaceship Earth. To begin, read this book!”

Keith currently focuses on creating the Internet of Communities via his company’s revolutionary technology “Dedoctive” – a fundamental AI innovation, academically-validated for the MoD as fully trustworthy, that empowers reliable access to complex information for all.

Keith is also a jazz pianist, traditional folk musician, and classical composer. He has released 9 albums and performs regularly with a wide range of other musicians.

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Email Keith Harrison-Broninski: khb@dedoctive.ai

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