GovTech Singapore’s platform helps agencies find the right tools for their use cases

Singapore public officers can now go to products.tech.gov.sg, a one-stop platform, to find the right tools for their needs. 

The portal contains a searchable catalogue which organises the government's central products by categories across citizen relationship management, data management, informational websites, and more.  

Launched at Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech Singapore)’s Industry Engagement (IE) 2026 event on May 19, the portal sought to address a common challenge faced by public officers of “not knowing where to start.” 

Speaking at the event, GovTech’s Chief Executive Goh Wei Boon, said platforms exist across many areas of engineering, “but if people do not know about them, they cannot use them”. 

Aside from the search catalogue, the portal also has a chatbot to allow public officers to talk to it.

When asked what one can use to build a website to allow people to apply for license, the chatbot suggested the use of ApplySG, a no-code form builder that enables agencies to create customised, digital application processes for government schemes. 

Build on central platforms, or buy? 

Instead of building end-user products for every agency, Goh highlighted that GovTech has largely focused on providing underlying platforms and shared tools for public agencies to build securely and quickly. 

These central products were designed to address the recurring and common needs across public service, such as information search, processing transactions, and user engagement. 

He used the example of publishing an informational website, a common task across agencies, to show how central products can accelerate delivery. 

A site like this typically requires a set of common functionalities like search, website performance measurement, and a chatbot for service queries.  

Rather than sourcing components separately, bundling related products into a single programme lets agencies assemble what they need quickly and get to launch faster. 

“We strategise on what is required and build what we think is important and that will bring value to our agencies and citizens,” he noted. 

Goh acknowledged the importance of collaboration between the government and industry to “build better together.” 

Beyond co-creating solutions, Goh noted that industry partners have also influenced how the government approached innovation itself. 

Through incubator and hackathon programmes, private sector companies have contributed mentorship, tools, and environments for agency teams to prototype and experiment. 

“Together with you, we have made progress in becoming cheaper, better, faster, and more resilient,” he said. 

Enabling the government’s AI strategy through central products 

To drive the artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for government, GovTech has focused on building central platforms and tools around AI. 

Within the government, Goh categorised the users into three personas: 

1. The general public officers using an AI assistant to help them in mundane tasks 

2. Public officers vibe-coding products and putting them into production to solve problems on the ground 

3. Engineers who use AI to improve their productivity in building products 

For the first persona, GovTech is currently evaluating enterprise solutions as the market is moving very fast. 

For the second persona, GovTech’s role was to ensure that the vibe-coded prototype lands somewhere safe. 

Goh highlighted Rabbit Deploy, which has been recommended for vibe coding and non-technical teams to use, as the official sandbox environment to securely deploy and test prototypes. 

The platform took a vibe code and deployed it on the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) in a few clicks. 

“Our officers don’t have to think about infrastructure or security. It works with whichever vibe-coding tool the officer prefers,” he said. 

The secure way should be the convenient way, he noted. 

While the platform currently handles simpler apps well, more complex builds still require professional engineers to design and develop properly. 

For the third persona, Goh underlined that GovTech’s engineers were currently using agents to ship features faster and AI-assisted code review to catch bugs. 

“We think the composition of product teams is likely to change. What used to take a squad of eight might possibly be done with fewer people,” he noted, highlighting that what this means in practice is the ability to deploy teams to solve other problems. 

The shared foundation underpinning the work across the three personas is Platform.AI. 

While Rabbit Deploy provides a secure infrastructure to deploy prototypes, Platform.AI provides the internal services, models, and tools to build AI solutions. 

“Security and compliance are built in. Data access and controls are configurable. Observability and governance over our AI activity come as standard. The team's time goes into the work that is theirs to build,” he noted. 

“That is how we enable AI usage across the public service,” he said.