GOV.EXE is an open-source platform that helps governments execute public projects with transparency and accountability — piloted with the Province of Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Officials executing public projects operate across disconnected systems for planning, procurement, and payment. No single authority sees a project's full lifecycle, producing delays, coordination failures, and accountability gaps.
GOV.EXE sits above the government's existing systems and helps officials move public projects through the five stages where decisions are actually made — Mandate, Planning, Procurement, Payment, and Closure — with each authorized step recorded and enforced on Cardano.
Every public project moves through the same five stages, handled by different institutional authorities. GOV.EXE models the sequence as a verifiable decision chain — and Cardano enforces the rules of progression so no single institution can rewrite history.
As per the preliminary design, an AI agent does the work between steps: reading supporting documents from the government's existing systems, checking that the conditions for the next step are met, and preparing the action for the responsible official to authorize.
Officials interact with the agent through tools they already use day-to-day — Slack or Microsoft Teams. A thin Signing Portal brokers the institution's signing flow so the agent never holds authority keys. Cardano records and enforces each authorized step, producing an audit trail no single institution can rewrite.
Cardano is the verifier, not the executor. Authority always remains with the official; the chain enforces that authorization happened and that the sequence is preserved.
Layered design (preliminary). The government's existing systems remain the source of operational data. GOV.EXE adds the AI agent, the chat-based surface officials already use, and the thin web companions for signing and document viewing. Cardano sits beneath as the verification and enforcement layer.
Digital government — and public-project execution within it — is a recognized priority at the World Bank, OECD, IDB, UNDP, and OGP. Programs, benchmarks, and active loans are public and current.
Argentina is an active participant: the World Bank's Argentina project directly funds Compr.AR, Contrat.AR, digital signatures, and digital civil registries — the same execution layer GOV.EXE operates in.
The pilot is one deployment in one province. What the Cardano ecosystem gets from it is structured to outlast it: a Secretariat-endorsed case study, an open-source framework with builder working groups, and a documented LATAM market signal from gf Consulting Group's institutional network.
The pilot tests whether this public-sector vertical can scale on Cardano through builder uptake, jurisdiction interest, and measurable ROI.
A real institutional deployment, endorsed by the Secretariat of Modernization of Entre Ríos. Cardano builders pursuing similar verticals use it as a credibility lever with their own institutional counterparts.
Apache 2.0 codebase at the TxPipe org. Two working-group sessions walk Cardano builders through the architecture, integration pattern, and deployment considerations — turning a GitHub artifact into an actively-supported toolkit.
Four briefings to jurisdictions and multilateral institutions in gf's LATAM network. An aggregated lessons-learned document captures what LATAM jurisdictions are buying, what they consider blocking, and what they're hearing from peers.
WP1 — Design & Specification. Map Entre Ríos's real workflows onto the five-stage execution model and refine the preliminary architecture into a buildable specification.
WP2 — Platform Development. Build the platform per spec, integrate with the province's systems, onboard officials, and complete an independent smart-contract audit.
WP3 — Pilot Operations & Replication. Run the platform in production on active workflows. Publish the case study, replication framework, working-group sessions, and lessons-learned from prospecting.
Six milestones across 9 months. Each milestone has a published, verifiable definition-of-done; the pilot run (M5) is the longest single milestone — 12 weeks of production operation generating the case-study and learnings delivered in M6.
Cardano infrastructure and developer-tooling company. Shipped production-grade open-source projects in use across the ecosystem — Oura, Pallas, Dolos, Demeter, Tx3, Supernode. 30 Catalyst proposals (Funds 9–14) delivered or in flight on schedule. Maintainers of Pallas, Dolos, and UTxO RPC under Intersect's 2025 funding. 20+ years building software platforms for institutions, including MiBA (City of Buenos Aires).
Latin American advisory firm with 20+ years of experience and 200+ delivered projects across the region. Practice spans economic regulation, institutional reform, public-sector modernization, and investment structuring. Client list: IDB, World Bank, CAF, Fonplata, UNDP, OEI, UNOPS, and national/subnational governments across LATAM.
Funding is sized in USD at a fixed ADA/USD rate of $0.25. The team commits to retaining no more than the USD-equivalent cost of the project; any ADA in excess at project closure is returned to the Cardano Treasury.