About
Trusted Futures

The firm that stays when the hard work begins.

Most firms advise governments on digital transformation. They write the strategy, present the roadmap, and move on. Trusted Futures does something rarer: we stay. We build what governments actually need and then we operate it, carrying real accountability for national infrastructure that millions of citizens depend on every single day.

Trusted Futures is an Estonian advisory and implementation firm specialising in national digital infrastructure: the identity systems, interoperability platforms, and governance frameworks that make modern governments function. Founded by Jana Krimpe, who spent over two decades not studying digital government but building and operating it, and led by Daniil Gussev as Partner and CEO, the firm brings together practitioners who have held direct national accountability for the systems they advise on.

We work with governments, multilateral development institutions, and international organisations to build digital infrastructure that is genuinely sovereign: owned by the state, trusted by citizens, and designed to last for decades — not just for the length of a project cycle or a donor mandate.

What Makes Us Different

Three things. Most firms manage one.

01
Operators, Not Just Advisors
There is a fundamental difference between understanding how a national digital system should work and being legally and commercially accountable for one when it fails at 2am and millions of people cannot access government services. We have been on the wrong side of that 2am call. We carried that responsibility not as a contractor, but as the operator, under a public-private partnership established by presidential decree. Not one project. Twenty years of continuous operation. That operational depth changes everything about how we approach advisory work. We design systems we would be willing to operate ourselves. Because we have.
02
Estonian Foundations. International Firepower
We are headquartered in Tallinn, the city that built the world’s most advanced digital state. Estonia’s national infrastructure is the benchmark against which every serious digital government project is measured. Our team reflects that standard and extends it globally. This is not a network of people who have studied these topics. It is a team of people who have held direct national accountability for them: from Estonia’s National Cyber Director to the CEO of its national health insurance system to the expert who facilitated the EU regulation governing digital identity for 450 million citizens.
03
Sovereign by Design — Long Before It Was Fashionable
For us, sovereignty is not a selling point. It is an engineering and governance requirement baked in from the first architecture decision:
→ Source code owned by the state — always, by contract, from day one. No vendor lock-in, ever.
→ PPP structures designed to transfer operational knowledge to government teams — not to preserve dependency on the implementing firm.
→ Governance frameworks that outlast any single project timeline or donor cycle.

Every country we work with ends the engagement more capable than when we arrived. That is what real knowledge transfer means.

How We Work

Most organisations in this space do one of these well. A handful do two. Trusted Futures does all three at national scale, under real accountability, for over a decade.

01
We Think
Strategy, Policy & Architecture
→ National DPI strategy and policy architecture
→ World Bank, UNDP, UN ESCAP, and GovStack framework alignment
→ Cybersecurity governance and national maturity assessment (CMM, NIST, CSF, ISO 27001)
→ EU policy architecture: eIDAS, Digital Wallet, cross-border mutual recognition
02
We Build
Platform Development & Deployment
→ Digital ID systems
→ PKI infrastructure and e-signature ecosystems
→ X-Road interoperability platforms and citizen portals
→ AI-augmented governance and post-quantum cryptography readiness
→ ETSI, ISO 27001, eIDAS, and NIST standards-compliant sovereign infrastructure
03
We Operate
Long-Term Operations & PPP Governance
→ National-scale infrastructure operations under public-private partnership
→ PPP legal framework design, revenue modelling, and risk-sharing governance
→ Institutional reform and change management using OECD methodologies
→ Knowledge transfer designed for permanent government operational independence

Geographic Track Record

Central Asia & Caucasus Azerbaijan: 20-year PPP for Mobile ID, X-Road, Digital Trade Hub, mResidency
Western Balkans Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo: governance reform and institutional capacity (OECD SIGMA)
European Union eIDAS regulation facilitation, EU-Canada MRA on digital identity, EU Digital Wallet Large-Scale Pilots, ENISA expert group
Middle East Israel: national digital identity advisory (PM’s Office) · UAE: smart government assessment · Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar: AI governance and GovTech
Africa Malawi: EU election observation · Cross-continent: market entry advisory and bilateral trade through African Estonian Institute
South Asia Nepal: UNDP rapid assessment of election technology and cybersecurity ahead of 2026 snap elections

Who We Work With

We are selective by design, because the work we do requires deep engagement, genuine accountability, and a long-time horizon. The clients who get the most from Trusted Futures are the ones who are serious about building something that lasts.

→ Governments and ministries designing or modernising national digital identity, interoperability, and e-governance infrastructure
→ World Bank, UNDP, EU, and bilateral development institutions financing digital public infrastructure in emerging and transition economies
→ International organisations seeking technical advisory support backed by direct operational credibility — not theoretical frameworks
→ Technology implementation partners looking for an experienced consortium lead with a proven sovereign DPI track record
→ Banks and financial institutions navigating digital identity integration, compliance, and digital transformation roadmaps