The Intentional Innovation Office for for Local Government’s Grand Challenges
We work with local governments on AI, climate action, and development. We leave your organization more capable, and the community you serve better off.
A free thirty-minute call. Nothing to sign.
Consulting
The Intentional Innovation Office.
We know what a Tuesday at city hall looks like. One person, five jobs, and a council meeting tonight.
Professionals plus software. Think TurboTax or H&R Block.
Software · The workspace
One(GoodGov)
First cohort open
One place that pulls it all together: the connected workspace for local government, built by local government people who have actually done the job. Every app below runs inside it.
- The whole office, one place. Work, communications, information, and insights in one calm workspace, not another tab.
- AI that stays in the background. Every tool shows its work and waits for a human yes.
- Work that follows your procedures. A work session opens with a plan you approve, then runs the steps of your own workflows.
- Your apps live inside it. TurboCAP runs in it today. One(GoodAI) and TurboDev come next, shaped by the first cohort.
Software · AI
One(GoodAI)
First cohort open
Where your AI work lives: the policy your council adopts, the automations your staff approve, and a plain record of how you use AI that you can show the public. We are building it with the first cohort.
- Policy first. Start from an AI use policy your council can adopt.
- A person approves every step. Automations take the repetitive work off your staff’s plate, and nothing goes out without a human yes.
- Ready when the public asks. A plain record of where and how you use AI, to share with council and residents.
- AI at cost. Usage passes through at cost, with no surcharge, and your workflows and agents stay yours.
Software · Climate
TurboCAP
LiveFirst cohort open
Greenhouse gas inventories built to the GPC, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s standard for cities: fast, affordable, and easy, powered by AI with humans in the lead. It runs inside One(GoodGov) today, and the demo is open to anyone.
- GPC-compliant. Scopes 1, 2, and 3, at BASIC or BASIC+.
- Guided from the first screen. Sector by sector, with a live total that updates as you answer.
- Defensible in public. Every source carries a data-quality flag, and every exclusion a GPC notation key.
- Made to be read. A report for council, the story behind the number, and a climate action plan measured against your target.
Software · Development
TurboDev
First cohort open
Advanced analytics and data science on your own permit records: where development review gets stuck, why it gets stuck there, and what is likely to slow it next. We are building it with the first cohort.
- Every bottleneck, located. Time in each phase of review, by permit type, from intake to issuance.
- The root cause of each delay. Traced back to the step where it starts.
- What comes next. Predictive models forecast volume and timelines, so you can plan staff ahead of the trouble.
- One month instead of six. A development services review with deeper analysis, clearer reports, and people behind it who have done the work.
The first cohort
The first cohort is open for all four, with three to five places each.
Pick one, or all of them that you’re interested in.
Pricing
Public Service Pricing.
We price to your budget and your spending authority, not to a rate card.
Three ways we’ll work with you.
- A single projectOne scoped question, fixed fee, delivered.
- A project, plus a retainer for supportThe plan is done; we stay to do the work, month over month.
- A full partnershipThe whole function, part-time and ongoing: we’re your intentional innovation office.
We’ll talk through pricing terms that work within your budget.
A lot of companies say they mean well.
We wrote it into the contract.
- No AI surcharge. Ever.We pass AI usage through at cost and never profit from it, so we have no reason to put AI into everything. The only way we earn is by delivering real value and keeping you as a partner. Our goal is not a good fourth quarter this year. It is a good fourth quarter thirty-five years from now.
- You own your data, your workflows, and your agents, even if we go out of business.This is about resilience. Your data and workflows are your documented institutional knowledge, so they stay yours, not ours. You need to run on them whether or not the AI is working that day, whether or not a vendor stays in business, and whether or not AI is in the picture at all.
- Humans stay in the lead.This is how we protect trust, democracy, and the integrity of public service. Every action leaves an audit trail, with a person you can reach, human oversight, and clear accountability. It is about the future of local government: protecting it, and making it better.
If we break one of those, the contract ends.
The conversation
None of this works if we build it alone.
It has to be built with the people doing the work. We want to sit down with as many local government professionals as we can and hear what you think of what we’ve built.
Here’s what we’ll ask you:
- What’s useful?
- What’s missing?
- Where did we get your job right, and where did we get it wrong?
From those conversations, we’ll build a first cohort of three to five communities that want to do this work better. More on that soon.
Tell us what you are wrestling with. · We read before we talk. · A thirty-minute call. · A scoped proposal.
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