Visualizing Public Policy Priorities across a Growing Ecosystem

The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) is responsible for stewarding one of Saudi Arabia's most ambitious cultural and territorial developments, coordinating policy initiatives across heritage, tourism, environment, infrastructure, and community development. As the portfolio of initiatives grew, RCU's public policy team needed a structured way to surface, compare, and communicate policy work across internal stakeholders, beyond static documents and siloed trackers.

Envisioning collaborated with RCU to create an internal Public Policy Radar: a secure, on-premise platform that maps policy initiatives according to phase, ownership, and strategic focus. Built to operate fully within RCU's infrastructure and security constraints, the radar enables different policy and strategy groups to contribute content while maintaining a consistent structure for tracking how initiatives evolve over time.

Today, the Public Policy Radar is actively maintained by the public policy team and referenced by multiple stakeholder groups across the organization, including policy owners, strategy functions, and business stakeholders. Teams use the radar to confirm how initiatives are represented publicly, to distinguish clearly between live and in-development policies, and to align around a shared visualization when discussing priorities and progress.

The radar has become a recurring point of reference in RCU's internal conversations, supporting day-to-day monitoring as well as higher-level planning. Ongoing collaboration focuses on improving analytics, visibility of live policies, and export options so that insights from the radar can flow more easily into presentations, internal reporting, and future front-end upgrades while preserving RCU's stringent data-security requirements.