Interoperability Assurance Platform

The problem How it works Open standard Roadmap

Public-good software · free to councils

Make multi-agency interoperability traceable — from readiness to assurance.

UK flood response depends on many agencies working together under JESIP — yet the statutory Section 19 record was never built to evidence how they coordinated. This platform turns that record into an edition-correct, defensible assurance annex, on an openly-licensed standard.

See how it works

A 30-second tour of the five-module interoperability assurance platform

Warwickshire flood events studied — JESIP absent from every statutory record

JESIP editions to scope correctly (2016 · 2021 · 2024)

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Cost to councils — an asset-locked public good, openly licensed

The problem

Coordination happens. The record can't prove it.

Underpinning research scoping-reviewed eleven Warwickshire flood events against JESIP and the Civil Contingencies Act, and found interoperability doctrine absent from the statutory record. UK inquiries repeatedly turn on exactly this missing joint-working evidence.

Coordination, unrecorded

Section 19 reports document multi-agency activity in detail but are not written to evidence joint-working effectiveness — and in practice never reference JESIP, the doctrine governing how agencies coordinate.

The wrong yardstick

Any credible record must judge an event against the JESIP edition in force at the time. Edition 2 reached only blue-light services; Edition 3 first extended to Cat 2. No current process captures that distinction.

Lessons lost to climate

As flooding grows more frequent and severe, authorities cannot systematically learn what coordination failed — because the record was never structured to show it.

How it works

One report in. A full interoperability toolkit out.

The calm-time core turns a Section 19 report into an assurance annex — the author stays in control throughout, the tool proposes with rationale, nothing is asserted without human approval. That same structured record then powers four more modules across the incident lifecycle.

The core — Section 19 to assurance annex

Import

Drop the published Section 19 report. Text is extracted locally, on-device.

Resolve edition

The JESIP edition in force on the event date is resolved deterministically.

Propose tags

Interoperability passages are tagged against the schema — each with a rationale.

Human review

Accept, edit, reject or add every tag. Nothing finalises without approval.

Generate annex

Export an edition-correct assurance annex with a doctrine-gap summary.

The platform — five modules across the incident lifecycle

Who it's for

Built for both sides of the assurance gap

LLFA author

The Flood-Risk Officer

Authors Section 19 reports under time pressure. Gets interoperability captured at near-zero effort — plus faster, more consistent report sections they can use immediately.

Accountable body

The Assurance Lead

Accountable when interoperability is questioned after an event. Gets defensible, edition-correct evidence on demand — proof rather than hope when an inquiry asks.

Sector & research

The Researcher

Studies multi-agency coordination. Gets a published, openly-licensed schema and a comparable dataset across events that no single narrative report reveals.

Open standard

An openly-licensed schema, not a walled product

The tagging vocabulary is a public good — versioned, openly licensed, and usable without the tool, so researchers and other authorities apply the same standard and the data becomes comparable across events.

Schema v0.2OGL v3.0 · CC BY 4.0Semantic versioning

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Free & asset-locked

No licence fees. A public good held by a CIC under an asset lock — it cannot be enclosed.

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Local-first processing

Reports processed on-device by default; a DPIA-aligned model keeps personal data on your workstation.

Not an adjudicator

The tool structures evidence with a rationale on every tag. Humans judge compliance — it never does.

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Open & maintainable

Schema and tool openly licensed and versioned, so the community can maintain them as doctrine evolves.

Roadmap

Delivered lowest-liability first — now all live

The build sequenced outward from the evidence-proven calm-time core to the highest-value live coordination layer. Every module is now available; the multi-agency coordination layer is usable while its operational governance (indemnity, IG sign-off, partner) is completed.

Phase 1Live

Section 19 Assurance Tool

Turns a Section 19 report into a JESIP-traceable assurance annex, with an openly-licensed tagging schema underneath.

Phase 2Live

Jurisdiction Resolver

Resolves which authority owns what at a flood incident under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (main river / ordinary watercourse / surface water / groundwater / sewers → EA / LLFA / IDB / water company / riparian owner).

Phase 3Live

Cross-Category Coordination Layer

A lightweight browser/mobile common-operating-picture + M/ETHANE / JDM layer for non-blue-light Cat 1 and Cat 2 responders excluded from Airwave/ESN.

Phase 4Live

JDM Decision-Capture

A guided Joint Decision Model workflow timestamping decisions and rationale into an immutable joint decision log, with anti-inertia prompts.

Phase 5Live

Readiness Micro-Exercise Platform

Low-cost, low-time multi-agency flood-coordination micro-simulations for responders who cannot afford full LRF exercises — closing the data flywheel (reports → structured data → drills).

See the full platform on real Warwickshire flood events.

All five modules are live — from Section 19 assurance to jurisdiction, coordination, joint-decision capture and readiness drills. Explore them with sample events.

Interoperability Assurance Platform

A proposed climate-resilience Community Interest Company. Underpinning research: “JESIP in Practice: Barriers to Interoperability among Warwickshire's Flood Responders (2018–2023)”, University of Leicester. JESIP edition lineage per the JESIP Joint Doctrine (Editions 2 (2016), 3 (2021); Version 3.1 (2024)). Working draft — names and partner-specific items to be confirmed.