No Forward-Deployed Team really starts from zero, every achievement begins with a foundation laid by someone before us. Looking back on my journey, I realise what I inherited matters just as much as what I've accomplished.
What we learnt from building Rhizomatic, a human-in-the-loop proof of concept for reviewing, versioning and rolling back changes to reusable agent skills.
“I came here expecting to build models for people who already knew what they wanted. I discovered that the harder work is figuring out what should be built, who it is for, and whether it solves a real problem.”
How ORCA works under the hood: routing each request to the right agent, running generated code in an isolated sandbox, and turning repeat chat tasks into reusable workflows.
Government communications can misfire in ways their authors never intended. We built an app that lets officers stress-test drafts against AI personas grounded in real Singapore voices, so they can catch what they missed in minutes rather than weeks.
Tell us about yourself- what did you expect from this internship?
I’m Rohan, a penultimate year Business Analytics student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) who spent the first half of 2026 as an applied AI Data Scientist Intern at GovTech’s Responsible AI team.
Going in, I
Previously I wrote about building a harness for yourself. This one is about the environment you're building in, and why at enterprise scale, if the platform underneath doesn't exist, individual wins have nowhere to accumulate.