FueledBy participates in public policy debate where technology, work and economic opportunity intersect. We engage in a way that is transparent, declared, and tied to issues where we have real expertise to contribute.
Our position
Our first priority is policy that encourages job growth and helps more people find those jobs. We support frameworks that expand access to digital skills, modernise public services, and create competitive conditions for small and mid-sized employers — including the ones we serve as clients.
Since opening our doors we have offered competitive wages, benefits and learning budgets to our own team, and we advocate for policy that makes that the norm rather than the exception. A strong local economy and a strong technology sector are not in tension — they reinforce each other when policy is built for the long term.
Where we engage
AI and data policy
Responsible AI frameworks, data-protection baselines, model-risk governance and the documentation regulators are starting to ask for. We engage from the position of practitioners who put models into production for regulated clients, not as advocates for a particular vendor's approach.
Digital skills and apprenticeship
Apprenticeship programmes, reskilling pathways and the public-funding mechanisms that make them work. Our position: pay for skills that move people into employment, not for credentials that decorate a CV.
Public-sector technology
Procurement reform, modular contracting, open standards and the in-house capability that lets governments be informed customers rather than captured ones. We have worked with public bodies in three jurisdictions and we share what we learn.
Competition and small-vendor protection
Competition policy that protects small and mid-sized vendors against concentration in the hyperscaler and platform layer. The argument for a healthy ecosystem is the same argument we make internally for keeping our own delivery model independent.
Disclosure
Any policy position taken on behalf of FueledBy is reviewed by our leadership and disclosed in our published policy register. We do not make political donations as a company. Individual practitioners may make their own political contributions; those are not made or coordinated through FueledBy.