20 minutes · one project, one gate · three tests

Is this project building Connected Government — or a faster silo?

Public money buys public value — services that work for the people they exist for, and keep working long after the project that built them has ended. There is no neutral spend: every dollar released at a funding gate — by an investment fund, a portfolio board, a treasury — either builds capability that compounds, or fragmentation that compounds faster. Gate processes are good at asking whether a project can be delivered. Almost none ask what it will leave behind. The Gate Check asks the question that should precede every release of funds.

Eighteen questions across the three FGX pillars — Leadership, Human Experience and Trust — read whether a project is G3 Ready, and what conditions attach to funding if it isn't.

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Score one project, one gate — a service build, a platform build, or a rebuild.Not your whole organisation; that's the full FGX assessment.

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Run it at the funder's decision points, not on the project's schedule.

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Get the right people in the room: the accountable owner, the delivery lead, someone who can speak for the affected users, and whoever holds the funding decision.

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Leave with a verdict and a conditions sheet you can attach to the gate paper.

The three gates

Gate	When	What runs	What it decides
Gate A	Before first funding	Full Check, forward-looking	Fund build, fund discovery only, or decline
Gate B	Each tranche release	Conditions sheet re-check, plus any test previously amber or red	Release the tranche or hold
Gate C	Before scale funding	Full Check re-run on evidence, plus benefits realised	Scale, remediate, or stop

Rating each question

Green — confident yes, and we could show the evidence tomorrow

Amber — partly, in progress, or true on paper but untested

Red — no, or we don't know

A simple rule carried over from the SPRITE Check: if no one in the room can answer a question, that is the answer — score it red. The Check is not a compliance stamp. FGX is a capability standard, not a regulation. Where a result is borderline, contested or high-value, escalate to the moderated FGX Project Assessment. No G3 substrate, no G4 — and no agentic spend before the substrate exists.

I understand that the FGX G3 Project Gate Check and its questions are confidential to the Future Government Institute. I will not reproduce, redistribute, or use them to develop derivative instruments.

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Step 2 of 4

Project details

These carry onto the gate certificate. Score one project at a time.

Project name

Agency or department

Gate

Date of check

Assessor

This project deploys AI (feature or agent) Turns on the AI annex in Test 3 — Trust. The annex is not rated here: the Check hands off to the SPRITE Check and reads its result. Anything short of a clean SPRITE result counts as a Trust red.

Step 3 of 4

The eighteen questions

Rate each honestly. If no one in the room can answer a question, that is the answer — score it red.

Step 4 of 4

Gate certificate

Write the conditions into the sheet below, then print to PDF. Every amber and red leaves the gate with an owner, a fix and a date.

FGX™ G3 Project Gate Check — Gate Certificate

Verdict

A project is only as fundable as its weakest test.

Conditions sheet

Every amber or red leaves the gate with an owner, a fix and a date — and conditions are re-checked before the next release of funds.

Question	Rating	Condition attached to funding	Owner	Due	Re-check

Instrument: Draft v0.1 — August 2026 — owner: Future Government Institute — review: before any external use.

FGX™, SPRITE™ and Government 3.0™ are trade marks of the Future Government Institute. Derived from the FGX 45-indicator assessment (v2.1) and the FGX Project Assessment (Prior/Retro). Not to be reproduced or distributed without written permission from the Institute.