Houston, TX · Schools, cities and agencies
You already bought
the software.
Nothing between it
was ever built.
We build the layer that connects the systems a district, city or agency already runs, and the workflows nobody sells because they are different in every building. Fixed price, in your own environment, and the source code is yours at the end.
Evaluating a bid from us? The capability statement has the registrations, the insurance position and who to call, on one page.
Bottleneck Fire review has held 14 of the last 30 permits past target. Visible here before it is a complaint at a council meeting.
Almost never a missing product. Almost always the space between the ones you have.
-
Systems that do not talk.
A body buys a permitting system, a finance system and a records system across twelve years from three vendors, and the process runs on people moving data between them by hand.
-
Reporting nobody can produce.
The number the board asks for exists, in three places, in three shapes. Producing it takes a week, and by the time it lands the question has moved on.
-
A counter queue that is really a software problem.
Intake on paper, review in email, status by telephone. The queue at the counter is the visible part of a process nobody designed.
-
A migration nobody wants to start.
The system works, the vendor is gone, the database is a version nobody supports, and every quote to move it has been for a replacement nobody can fund.
The part that ends up in the minutes
A public body has usually bought the right software already. What it has never been sold is the work of making any of it fit how the office actually runs, because that work is different in every building and no product company can package it.
Four categories, and the work inside them.
-
School district systems
K-12 districts and education service centers
Student data that lives in six systems, state reporting that eats a week every cycle, and parent-facing tools nobody wants to open.
-
Permitting and licensing
Cities, counties and regulatory agencies
Permit intake on paper, plan review in email, inspections in a spreadsheet, and a counter queue that exists because none of them talk.
-
Data and systems integration
Any agency running more than one system of record
The layer between the systems you already bought. Migrations, interfaces, and the reporting nobody can produce because the data is in three places.
-
Records and document automation
Clerks, records departments and legal teams
Public records requests answered by hand, retention schedules tracked in a binder, and decades of paper nobody can search.
Five things that are true of every engagement.
- Fixed price
- Agreed before work starts and invoiced against milestones. No hourly billing and no change-order arithmetic.
- Your infrastructure
- Built and deployed in the entity’s own cloud accounts, under the entity’s own contracts.
- You own the source
- Delivered to your repository under a license permitting unrestricted use, modification and resale. No seat licenses.
- 90 days warranty
- Defects are ours for ninety days after handover, at no cost.
- Nothing switches off
- If the relationship ends the system keeps running. There is no kill switch and no renewal you are hostage to.
If an off-the-shelf product does what you need, buy the product. We will say so on the first call, and we would rather say it then than after a procurement.