
Why we'll never build a Salesforce
Halfway through rewriting our homepage I asked a daft question: could we ever build a Salesforce? Working out the honest answer turned into the best explanation of our business model I've found, so I wrote it down.
The PolicySight blog
We build business software inside Microsoft 365. This is where we write down how it actually goes: the build stories, the SharePoint patterns that held up, the automation worth having, and the long job of turning Governance Hub into a product.
We build with AI every day and a person signs off everything that ships, so a fair amount of what follows is about that. Nothing here is theory. If it is written up, we have run it.

Halfway through rewriting our homepage I asked a daft question: could we ever build a Salesforce? Working out the honest answer turned into the best explanation of our business model I've found, so I wrote it down.

On 10 August the FCA published what it found in the governance records of 15 fast-growing firms. Its list of failures reads like the committee grind I spent years living with: attendance, quorum, conflicts, decisions and actions.

Every governance committee I served ran on Word, Outlook and one diligent person's memory. The origin story of Governance Hub starts with a head-count.