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Civic technology studio

Design & development for public services.

We design and build digital services for local governments and public teams—from resident forms to staff tools and field workflows.

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Permit applications, utility requests, public works reporting, and field inspections.

Selected work

All five projects

01 / Pilot · March–August 2026

PermitLite

A six-step mobile workflow for selected small construction permits, with document checklists, status tracking, and a staff review queue alongside the municipality’s existing records system.

Municipality in the western United States · ~12,000 residents · names withheld

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  • Follow-up for missing documents: 14 of 34 applications (41%) before, 8 of 39 (21%) after.
  • Median time to a complete file: 3.6 to 2.4 business days.

02 / Pilot · April–July 2026

FieldLog

An offline inspection workflow for a four-person field team, with preloaded assets, saved reports, attached photos, a visible sync queue, and office exports.

Rural municipal infrastructure team · four inspectors · names withheld

Read the FieldLog case
  • Four inspectors created 63 reports during a five-week review; 19 began with no or unstable mobile service.
  • All 63 reports eventually reached the central register; 3 needed a retry.

03 / Launched service · June–October 2025

StreetSignal

A structured mobile route for reporting road and public infrastructure issues, with location and photo details passed into the existing dispatch process.

Municipal public works department · ~24,000 residents · names withheld

Read the StreetSignal case

Measured during rollout

  • Location clarification: 34% of 148 reports before launch and 14% of 161 after.
  • Median time to route a report: 2 business days before, 1 after.

Compared service logs for 12 weeks before and 12 weeks after launch: 148 reports in the earlier window and 161 in the later window. Repair time was not measured.

What we do

Research, design, and development for a defined service workflow. The scope can cover a prototype, a pilot, or an implementation.

Our approach

Service & product design

Process research, interface design, and prototypes. We map the information residents submit, the decisions staff make, and the handoffs between teams.

Web & field tools

Resident forms, staff review queues, and field applications. Technical scope is agreed around the devices, connectivity, and systems the team already uses.

Delivery & handover

Deployment planning, data exports, source code, and operating documentation. We agree what the team needs to run and maintain the delivered tool.

Field notes

All notes

Have a project in mind?

Send a short description of the service you’re working on, your existing systems, and any project constraints.

Discuss a project

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