How sectors evolve

We explore twelve sectors and how they change as technology systems get built on Technology DNA.

All life is built on biological DNA. To us it is reasonable that every technology system will be built on Technology DNA: one shared dictionary of meaning, five tables, interoperability solved, cheaper to build and evolve systems, cheaper and faster to run. But what happens when every system understands each other, every person and organisation has true sovereignty over their data, and every change is counted?

IntegrationSystems that share one dictionary need no connectors

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAIntegrationvendorsEachorganisation$every project,every changea connector between two systemsOne shareddictionarySpecialistsdefine and maintainthe termsEach sector$paysEvery pair of systems needs its own connector.Systems share one dictionary and need no connectors.

Most integration work disappears. Instead, each sector pays specialists to define its terms in the dictionary and keep them up to date.

System integration services: $553bn in 2025 (MarketsandMarkets). Organisations run 897 applications on average; only 29% are connected (MuleSoft, 2025).

Building systemsOrganisations own their systems instead of renting them

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAVendor: one product$$prices rise every year;the customer owns nothingBuilder ABuilder BBuilder Ceach organisation changes its system itself,or pays its builder for support and updatesOne vendor rents the same product to everyone.Many builders. Each organisation owns its own system.

Software houses build on Technology DNA, so each sector can choose between many designs, and each organisation owns what it buys.

Prices for rented software rose 16.4% in the year to June 2026 (Vertice). Worldwide software spending: $1.44tn in 2026 (Gartner).

Personal data and advertisingPeople control their own data and are paid for its use

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAYouPlatformsData brokersAdvertisers$$You are not asked and not paidevery fact about you,held by youBrokerpermissionResearchersAdvertisersonly whatyou allowed$paid to youYour data is collected and sold without your consent.You choose what to share. Brokers work for you.

People decide who may see their data, sell access through brokers who act for them, and receive most of the money.

Meta advertising revenue: $196bn in 2025, $57 for each person using its apps (Meta, Form 10-K).

FundingFunders decide on results that the organisations themselves have signed

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNApitch decksquarterly reportsInvestor, lender,philanthropistFundinvestorsestimatedvaluationsorganisations being fundeddecisions on the organisations' own figures,reports weeks after the quartereach organisation's own signed recordsDue diligenceon signed resultsPortfolio dataalways up to dateValuationson current recordsReports to investorswith permissionImpact marketsFive by FiveEvidenceof what workstools built by investors, lendersand other fundersFunders decide on claims and quarterly reports.Funders' tools read results that the organisations have signed.

Funders build their tools on the signed records of the organisations they fund. Investing on Evidence and Five by Five are two early examples.

In 2025, buyers of venture and growth stakes paid 78 cents for each dollar of reported value (Jefferies).

GovernmentEach minister is elected for one department and judged on results

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAParty A:one programmeParty B:one programmeone vote every few years, for a whole programmeGovernmentbetween elections, little say;promises cannot be checkedMinister for Healthcontract tracked in publicMinister for Housingcontract tracked in publicMinister for Schoolscontract tracked in publiceach minister elected for one department, on a stated contractthe public sees results, votes on laws and can remove a ministerOne vote every few years, for a whole party programme.Each minister is judged on measured results.

engage.re's efficacy tools show the public what each department achieves. Sovereignty, Sense Future's framework for democracy, is built on those tools.

Across OECD countries 39% of people trust their national government; in the UK, 27% (OECD Trust Survey, 2024).

HealthPatients hold their own readings and decide who sees them

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAGPHospitalLabInsurerYoua copy in each systemTrialrecruits patientsthrough advertsyour readings, held by youCareGP, hospitalResearchtrials, by consentPreventionhome devicesPaying for resultsFive by Fivewith your permissionYour records are in every system except yours.You hold your readings. Each tool reads them with your permission.

Doctors, researchers and device makers read the same readings with the patient's permission, and the result of every treatment is counted.

Administrative complexity costs US health care about $266bn a year (Shrank and others, JAMA, 2019).

Work and recruitmentEmployer and employee both sign each job record

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAYour CVAgency AAgency Ba copyin eachCheckingfirm$Old employerasks againeach new job means new checksYouyour halftheir halfeach job, signed by bothEmployeryour permission,which you can withdrawAgencyClientagencyclienteach timesheet, signed by bothno copies and no repeat checksEvery agency keeps its own copy of your details.Your job history, signed by both sides. Agencies read it with your permission.

Agencies compete on finding and matching people, not on holding their data, and each hire relies on records that neither side can falsify.

A quarter of 55,000 CVs checked had details that did not match the records (Credence, 2019).

Trade, supply chains and taxSupplier and buyer sign one shared record of each order

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNASupplierBuyerits own versionits own versioninvoice re-entered by handTax authorityLenderreturns, months latercannot see if the invoiceis already financedSupplierBuyersupplierbuyerevery order and invoice, signed by bothTaxread directly, no returnsFinanceon signed invoicesOrigintraced to sourceeach reads the same record, with permissionEach side keeps its own version of every invoice.One record of each order, signed by both sides.

Tax authorities, lenders and buyers read the same signed records, so VAT returns are not needed and no invoice can be financed twice.

EU VAT gap: €89.3bn in 2022, 7% of the VAT due (European Commission, 2024).

Audit and regulationAuditors and regulators read signed records as they change

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNACompany recordsa sample is checkedAuditorBankCustomerconfirmationletterscompanyother sidecompanyother sidecompanyother sidecompanyother sidecompanyother sideevery transaction signed by both sides;no entry can be changed or deleted without traceAuditorRegulatorread the records directly;each grant has an end dateSamples and letters, weeks after the year end.Signed by both sides, and read directly by auditors and regulators.

Auditors and regulators spend less time collecting evidence and more on judgement: valuations, estimates and whether the business can continue trading.

EY alone earned $17.9bn from assurance in its 2025 financial year (EY, 2025).

AI and childrenEach AI and each child has its own account, and a person is responsible for it

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAA personloginacts asthe personwho is responsible for the AI?A childdifferent controls in every appResponsiblepersonsees everything,sets limitscannot act as the AIits own account,its own signed recordParentthe same controlsin every appChildAI agents act through people's logins.Each AI acts from its own account, and a person is responsible for it.

Each AI and each child has its own account. The person responsible for that account sees everything done in it and sets limits, but cannot act in it.

Gartner expects AI agents in 40% of business applications by the end of 2026.

Statistics and market researchFigures are counted from records, not estimated from samples

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNASurvey agencya sample of homes; most do not answerestimate ± error, months laterengage.recountsexact, current,anonymised,publictotals for every areaSurvey a sample and estimate the rest.Totals come from the records themselves.

Figures are counted, not estimated. Statistics agencies and research firms concentrate on deciding what to measure and on asking people why.

A census from registers cost $0.07 a person in Denmark; a census by survey cost $40.17 a person in the US (UNECE, 2014).

Data centresSystems move between hosts without being rewritten

TodayHow this sector might work on Technology DNAYour applicationA's databaseA's identityA's servicesbuilt into Provider AProvider BYour application6 endpoints · 5 tablesHost AHost BYour ownserversAnycountrymoving rewrites nothingLater, the same structure on a chip:the 5T Chip(R&D)Built into one provider. Moving means rewriting.The same structure on every host, and later on a chip.

Hosts become interchangeable and compete on price, location and service. Because every system has the same structure, that structure can be built into a chip.

AWS and Microsoft each hold 30 to 40% of UK cloud services (Competition and Markets Authority, 2025).

References & NotesFacts and where they come from

About Technology DNA. Statements about Technology DNA, engage.re, the 5T Chip and IC Intelligence come from Technology DNA capabilities (September 2026), the Investor Deck and the Sovereign Graph specification (relationships as two signed halves, invariant 9). Grants passed on only in narrower form: graph/shared/sovereign/capability.ts. Identity checked once, apps receive yes or no: graph/src/identity-claim.ts. The dictionary’s constitution: free to read (Article 14), not for sale (Article 8), creation not gatekept (Article 1). Items marked R&D are in research and development.

1 Integration. MarketsandMarkets, System Integration Services Market, 27 Oct 2025: $553.33bn in 2025. MuleSoft Connectivity Benchmark 2025 (1,050 IT leaders): 897 applications on average, 29% integrated, 39% of IT time on custom integrations.

2 Building systems. Vertice SaaS Inflation Index: 16.4% in the year to June 2026. Gartner, 22 April 2026: software $1.44tn, IT services $1.87tn in 2026. Maintenance up to 70% of lifetime cost: Sood and Delaurier, ICSM 2004.

3 Personal data and advertising. Meta Platforms Form 10-K, FY2025: advertising $196.2bn; average revenue per person $57.03. FTC, Data Brokers report, May 2014: data collected without consumer knowledge. ICO, adtech update report, June 2019.

4 Funding. Jefferies, Global Secondary Market Review, 2025: buyers paid 78 cents per dollar of reported value for venture and growth stakes. The tools shown: Sense Future, Investing on Evidence (October 2026), and Five by Five Healthspan on Technology DNA (September 2026). India's Account Aggregator: lenders read data at source with the customer's consent (Sahamati; BIS, 2021).

5 Government. OECD Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions, 2024 results: 39% average trust in national government; United Kingdom 27%. Sovereignty framework: Machines of Human Grace, Sense Future, June 2026. Ireland's Citizens' Assembly (2016 to 2017) and the 2018 referendum.

6 Health. Shrank, Rogstad and Parekh, Waste in the US Health Care System, JAMA, October 2019: administrative complexity $265.6bn a year. Patient-held readings and payment for results: Five by Five Healthspan on Technology DNA (September 2026). European Health Data Space, Regulation (EU) 2025/327.

7 Work and recruitment. Credence Background Screening, CVs Uncovered, 2019: 55,000 CVs checked. Candidate-held profiles and shared timesheets: Sense Future, Atlas proposal (2026). In Flanders, job seekers share diplomas with Randstad from their own data pods (Athumi, 2024).

8 Trade, supply chains and tax. European Commission, VAT Gap in the EU, 18 December 2024: €89.3bn in 2022. EU VAT in the Digital Age, adopted 11 March 2025: supplier and customer both report each invoice from July 2030. First Brands, 2025: receivables possibly financed more than once, under investigation.

9 Audit and regulation. EY global results, October 2025: assurance $17.9bn. ISA 500 (entity-produced information). Parmalat 2003 and Wirecard 2020 confirmation failures. Regulator read grants with an end date: Sense Future, letter to the Bank of England, September 2026.

10 AI and children. Gartner forecast (August 2025): AI agents in 40% of enterprise applications by the end of 2026. eSafety Commissioner, Australia, 2026: most under-16s still use social media under the minimum-age law. Supervised accounts for children and AI: Technology DNA capabilities, sections 5 and 9.

11 Statistics and market research. UNECE, 2014, in the Journal of Official Statistics: census cost per person $0.07 in Denmark (2011, from registers) and $40.17 in the US (2010). ONS: Labour Force Survey response 17.4% in 2023. ESOMAR: about $130bn in 2022.

12 Data centres. Competition and Markets Authority, cloud services market investigation, July 2025: AWS and Microsoft each 30 to 40%. EU Data Act (Regulation 2023/2854): switching charges end 12 January 2027. Gartner, 9 February 2026: sovereign cloud spending about $80bn in 2026. The 5T Chip is in R&D.

Sense Future Ltd, company number 16548138, England and Wales. This document describes how markets might change when systems are built on Technology DNA, and is not an offer of shares. The Technology DNA capabilities shown are in production, except those marked R&D. Technology DNA and Sense Future in full: the Investor Deck, sensefuture.org/deck.