We're a bench of practitioners who've done the job inside local government — the permit counter, the staff report, the public hearing. Cities hire us the way they'd staff an innovation office they can't afford full-time: a project, ongoing support, help alongside an existing team, or the whole function part-time. The work is fast and priced for a public budget because the method is productized — software runs what software should, and you pay people only for the judgment.
How you hire the office
A project
Full-service
One scoped question, fixed fee, delivered — engagements run $12,000 – $65,000, half at signature.
Ongoing implementation support
Full-service
The plan is done; we stay to do the work, month over month — from $5,000 a month, sized to scope.
Alongside your team
Assisted
Your staff runs it; our practitioners work beside them — guidance where it counts.
The software alone
Do it yourself
The platform runs the method — the Development Review Assessment self-serve today, TurboCAP inside One(GoodGov) today.
The repetitive work, off your staff's plate — with a person approving every step, so the public gets speed without ever losing a human answer.
AI advisory & readiness
An honest read on where AI helps your office and where it doesn't — starting, if you want, with a free one-page AI use policy and thirty minutes with your leadership.
Process & workflow automation
The forms, the filing, the follow-ups — mapped honestly, then automated where a machine should do it and kept human where it shouldn't.
Implementation & adoption support
We don't hand you a memo and leave — we stay while your staff makes the new way the normal way.
Flagship: Development Review Assessment
Data & Analysis
Your own records, finally telling you what's actually happening — findings with the evidence attached, in plain language you can put in front of council.
Development Review Assessment
How your development review and permitting process actually performs — volume, timelines, phase dwell, and standards compliance, from your own permit records.
Data science & analytics
Descriptive to statistical: the analysis your questions actually need, documented so your staff can re-run it.
GIS & spatial analytics
Your community, on a map that answers questions — where the need is, where the risk is, and where the next dollar does the most good.
Digital twins & 3D modeling
A working model of your community you can test decisions against — see the project, the flood, or the corridor change before anyone breaks ground.
Full-journey partnership
Climate Action with TurboCAP
A partner for the whole climb — from the first measurement to the finished project — sized to a local budget and built to outlast a single grant cycle.
CAP strategy & planning
A climate action plan your community helped write and your staff can actually run — not a document for the shelf.
GHG analysis
Your emissions, honestly counted — a baseline you can defend in public and measure every year against.
Sustainability audit
A straight look at how your operations run today — what's working, what's wasting, and what to change first.
Resilience audit
Where the next storm, fire, or heat wave will hit your community hardest — and what it takes to be ready before it does.
Sustainability asset management
Every green asset your community owns — solar, fleet, trees, buildings — tracked, maintained, and earning its keep.
Implementation support
The part most plans never get: we stay to do the work — automation, public outreach, volunteer coalitions, grants, GIS, and social marketing — until the plan is what your community actually did.
The measurement runs on TurboCAP, our climate software inside One(GoodGov) — GPC and gov-ops inventories, data intake, published reports, and CAP scenarios. Live in the platform today; its own standalone subscription is coming.
Two threads run through everything above: we're planners by trade, and we'll help you fund the work.
Planning — current, long-range, and development review
From tomorrow's permit to the twenty-year plan: planning help from people who've worked the counter, written the staff report, and stood up at the public hearing.
Grant Writing Strategy & Support
The right grants, chased the right way — an honest read on what you can win, and the writing support to go get it without burning out your staff.
Not sure which of these you need? — if the honest answer is that you don’t need us, that’s the answer you’ll get.
The Collective
Good people, on purpose.
JJ
Jordan Jerkovich
Founder
Local-government practitioner and builder of One(GoodGov) — he has sat at the permit counter and written the staff report.
CJ
Caroline Jerkovich
Partner
Partner seat — open
We're building a bench of practitioners — planners, analysts, engineers — who've done the work inside local government.
Partner seat — open
We're building a bench of practitioners — planners, analysts, engineers — who've done the work inside local government.
HTLG — How To Local Gov
How To Local Gov. Figuring it out together, in public.
HTLG is a community of people learning, building, and thinking about local government out loud — permitting, data, climate, and the work of running an office. It's an occasional note on what we're figuring out and what we're still working out, published on Substack.