For decades, governments and research institutions built infrastructure the slow way:
Committees. Grants. Procurement. Delays. More delays.

But something has changed.

In NEOM, ENOWA, and other future-forward initiatives, public infrastructure is being built like a startup:
→ Agile teams
→ Iterative development
→ Scalable digital cores
→ Measurable outcomes

They’re not just laying roads and wires.
They’re deploying sovereign operating systems for governance, energy, and research.

This is not just good policy.
It’s the only way to scale intelligently in a real-time world.

Why Legacy Models Break

Public infrastructure has traditionally been:

• Built by contractors

• Managed by civil servants

• Audited by external consultants

• Governed by bureaucracy

The result?

• Projects launch years late

• Most translational research never reaches the public

• Feedback loops are broken

• ROI is impossible to measure

• Innovation becomes academic theater

Governments become landlords of broken systems.

NEOM, ENOWA, and the New Blueprint

Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is pioneering a different approach.

• ENOWA treats utilities like APIs

• Oxagon treats factories like code

• The government is not buying software, it's operating as a platform

This is how infrastructure scales in the 21st century:
🧠 AI-native
🔄 Telemetry-driven
🧩 Composable and interoperable
📈 Incentivized for outcomes, not process

It’s not just a “smart city.”
It’s public infrastructure with a product mindset.

My Role: Turning Systems into Platforms

Over 20 years, I’ve operated at the intersection of:

• AI systems engineering

• National governance

• Corporate and product turnaround

• EHRs, robotics, full-stack platforms

• Translational science → working software

At one point, I even proposed to NSF a national platform that could make translational research deployable like startups launch apps.
It wasn’t funded.
But the insight holds: governments need product infrastructure.

That’s why I created The Sharp Method™.

The Sharp Method™ = Step on the GaaS 🚀

Governance-as-a-Service isn’t a trend—it’s a gear shift.
A framework for turning national public systems into:

• Outcome-driven

• Modular

• AI-optimized

• Governable by telemetry

• Designed for value creation

Instead of another 100-page grant proposal…
You just launch a governance service.
Secure. Measurable. Sovereign.

It’s time for governments to step on the GaaS.

Governments Must Stop Just “Funding Innovation”

And start building like founders.
Just like NEOM. Just like ENOWA.

Governance is the product.
Research is the backlog.
Digital infrastructure is the stack.

Want to see how it works?

📄 Read the white paper
📅 Schedule a strategic briefing
🌐 sharpmethod.org