Conflict IQ — Assured Integrity | Conflict of Interest & Corruption-Risk Assurance for NZ Government
Governance assurance · New Zealand public sector

When the inquiry asks what you did to know, you will have an answer.

Conflict IQ is the independent assurance layer that protects your board — testing every conflict-of-interest disclosure against the records that prove it, and surfacing the corruption risk no one declared. So your audit committee hears the word assured and has the evidence behind it.

01 · The stakes

New Zealand’s integrity is a hard-won asset. It is also slipping.

The Serious Fraud Office, Police and Public Service Commission now say so in writing. The figures below are theirs, not ours.

$823m$10.24b
lost to fraud, corruption and error across the public sector, every year.
SFO Anti-Corruption Taskforce, 2026
~40%
of the Serious Fraud Office’s current caseload involves allegations of corruption.
Serious Fraud Office, 2026
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New Zealand’s slide on the Corruption Perceptions Index — first-equal (2019) to fourth (2024), the first time outside the top three.
Transparency International, via SFO 2026 & NAP5 2025
It only takes the actions of a small number of corrupt individuals to taint the reputation of the rest of the sector. — Anti-Corruption Taskforce (Serious Fraud Office · NZ Police · Public Service Commission), 2026
02 · What Conflict IQ does

Three things a board actually needs.

Not a disclosure form — an assurance system, built around the finding that conflicts of interest are the “gateway to corruption.”

Catches what people omit

Disclosures are tested live against the public record — company registries, procurement data, employment history — rather than taken on trust. Every entity is actively confirmed or declined. Silence is no longer an answer.

Surfaces what no one declared

The sector lacks a system-wide, data-analytics approach to finding corruption risk. Conflict IQ is that approach — mapping concentration, revolving-door and procurement patterns across the organisation, proactively.

Gives you something to say

A verified, append-only assurance record for the board and audit committee. Evidence that your integrity systems work — ready before anyone asks you to prove it.

03 · Built for where the standard is going

The government has already named this capability.

New Zealand’s Fifth Open Government National Action Plan commits the public sector to building exactly what Conflict IQ delivers. We are not ahead of policy — we are aligned to it, and available now.

NAP5 · Commitment 2 — led by the SFO

A corruption risk assessment tool

“…for public sector agencies to identify corruption and insider-threat risks within their organisation.” That is the Conflict IQ proactive engine, in production today.

NAP5 2026–2027, Public Service Commission
NAP5 · Commitment 4 — Public Service Commission

Transparency of senior leaders’ conflicts

“Despite obligations for chief executives and board chairs to disclose interests, there is no publication of declared interests or management plans.” Conflict IQ closes exactly that gap.

NAP5 2026–2027, Public Service Commission
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