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Philadelphia · Strategy · Partnerships · Systems

Same side
of the table.

We don’t have clients. We have partners.

We bring the operator, the agency, the funder and the community group to one plan. Then we build the systems that let it run.

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I · Who you work with

One team, start to finish.

The people you meet in the first conversation stay on the work until it is done.

  1. IIntroductions to the people and institutions your project needs.
  2. IIA plan that says what happens, when, and who does it.
  3. IIIWorking systems, built and handed over.

The first call is a conversation, not a pitch.

II · Built and running

Built and running.

Systems we have built, what each one does, and what it has not done yet.

The question step of the repeated-work check on a laptop screen, with two answers chosen.
The same question step on a phone.

Plate 01 Small Business · Operations

A first look at repeated work

A short questionnaire an owner fills in alone, before any call. Fixed rules score five areas and rank what to fix first. The owner keeps the report as a PDF.

Working, internal build. No outside business has used it yet.

A list of writing tools on one shared platform.
The input form of one tool, for replying to a customer review.

Plate 02 Small Business · Tools

One platform, many small tools

Twenty-two tools on one shared platform. Totals and percentages are computed in code, and a person reviews each draft before it is used.

Internal build. 202 automated tests passing on 24 September. Nothing is sold yet.

300,000Messages in one mailbox

Plate 03 Operations · Data

A mailbox made findable

Real people picked out and protected. Cleanup in batches that never deletes directly. Packaged as a small desktop app.

No run record yet, so no outcome numbers.

7Civic workstreams

Plate 04 Initiatives

Food, procurement, waste, work

Civic work with many partners. None of it is finished, and each one says what has not happened yet.

Where each one stands →

Most of our work is not finished. The work page says so.

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III · Three ways in

Engagements. Ventures. Initiatives.

Three ways to work together. Each one is agreed on its own terms, in writing.

  1. Engagements

    You bring a problem with an end to it. We scope it, agree it in writing, do the work and hand it over.

  2. Ventures

    Sometimes we help start or build something and take a stake in it instead of sending an invoice.

  3. Initiatives

    Civic work with many partners, where the point is that the thing exists, not who gets the credit.

IV · How we partner

A partner is someone we expect to work with again.

So we work the way that requires. These hold on every piece of work.

  1. 01Terms are written first.Every piece of work is scoped on its own and agreed in writing before it starts.
  2. 02You keep what we build.When the work ends, it is yours, with the notes on how it works.
  3. 03You know who is on it.Everyone on the work is named to you, with what they are responsible for.
  4. 04Status is stated as it is.Nothing is called funded, adopted or delivered until it is.
  5. 05If we are not the fit, we say so.And we point you to who is.

How we partner →

V · Where we work

Philadelphia is where the work is.

Six areas. The subject changes. The way we work does not.

Plate 05 · PhiladelphiaThe city we work in.
  1. 01

    Civic & Government

  2. 02

    Anchors & Foundations

  3. 03

    Food Systems

  4. 04

    Arts, Culture & Hospitality

  5. 05

    Corporate Social Impact

  6. 06

    Small Business

Sectors →

Engraving-style illustration of a Philadelphia street of brick rowhouses leading to a clock tower.

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