Redbox
An open-source AI assistant built at the Incubator for AI for use with government documents.
ProjectSources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 3 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Government document assistant, MIT licence, announcement of service ending in 2025 and repository archived on 9 January 2026.
- i.AI — Redbox repository
Government document assistant, MIT licence, announcement of service ending in 2025 and repository archived on 9 January 2026.
- Liam Wilkinson — Hello, World
The author’s February 2026 account of his career, project contributions and site.
- James Lowe — Redbox Reflections, archived official article
Byline, date, model access, product lessons and planned retirement.
- Your Country Needs Builders — repository essay
Argument and firsthand recollections checked against local MDX; the live public URL was not used as independent evidence.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The service shutdown is reported by maintainers, not tested against a deployment.
- Individual contribution is supported by the author’s own account.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
- Kind
- software (own work)
- Licence
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/i-dot-ai/redbox
The maintainer’s repository states that the service would stop at the end of 2025. GitHub marks the repository archived on 9 January 2026. The source is published under the MIT licence.
The author’s February 2026 introductory post names Redbox among projects he contributed to; this records a contribution rather than sole authorship.
Lowe’s published retrospective explains the product’s retirement. Your Country Needs Builders adds Liam’s account of the internal testing community and what colleagues learned from access to frontier models.
In the essays
- Hello, World
Read the essay
- Your Country Needs Builders
Read the essay
Sources
People
- Liam Wilkinson
Built by
Projects
Ideas
- Institutional learning
Subject
Organisations
- Cabinet Office
- Incubator for Artificial Intelligence
Maintained by · Operated by
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/projects/redbox.md
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