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A website built for the way your government works

A township clerk, a county IT director and a state program office do not face the same rules. We start with the laws and deadlines your agency answers to, then design around the residents you serve.

Cities and towns

Municipal government

What your site has to do

  • Post meeting agendas on time, and on the home page where your state requires it
  • Meet WCAG 2.1 AA under ADA Title II by April 26, 2027 (population 50,000 or more) or April 26, 2028 (under 50,000)
  • Publish budgets, audits, ordinances and minutes residents can find

What we build

  • A meeting center with a “current agenda” slot on the home page
  • Clerk-friendly publishing with scheduled posting and a posting log
  • Online payments through the provider you already use, service requests and permit pages
Counties

County government

What your site has to do

  • Serve many departments, from courts and the sheriff to elections, health and roads, under one brand
  • Keep public records of web content under your retention schedule
  • Publish legal notices where your state now allows or requires online notice

What we build

  • Department sub-sites with shared navigation and search
  • A searchable legal-notices center with first-published dates
  • Page version history and archive exports for your records officer
Special and school districts

Districts and authorities

What your site has to do

  • Special districts follow the ADA Title II small-entity date: April 26, 2028
  • Post board meetings, rates and elections with a small staff
  • Stay affordable to run and simple to update

What we build

  • A focused site that one staff member can maintain
  • Board meeting, rate and service-area pages
  • Accessible web-page replacements for your most-used PDFs
State agencies

State government

What your site has to do

  • Meet your state’s accessibility standard, and certify it where required (California: every two years)
  • Post a privacy policy that follows state law
  • Pass state security review; some states require GovRAMP or TX-RAMP for cloud services

What we build

  • Accessible page templates your whole agency can reuse
  • Hosting that fits your state’s cloud-security program
  • Plain-language content for programs, licenses and benefits
Federal

Federal agencies and programs

What your site has to do

  • Meet Section 508 and the federal website standards in OMB M-23-22
  • Carry the required links, site search, DAP analytics and an HTTPS-only .gov
  • Move sign-in services to Login.gov under OMB M-26-18

What we build

  • U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) front ends
  • Search.gov and Digital Analytics Program integration
  • Self-hosted assets, with no third-party script or font hosts
Libraries and public authorities

Everyone else in the public sector

What your site has to do

  • Meet the same ADA Title II standard as the government that created you
  • Publish hours, catalogs, board meetings and notices that anyone can use
  • Work on a phone in a parking lot with one bar of signal

What we build

  • Fast pages that load without JavaScript and print cleanly
  • An alert banner your staff can post in seconds
  • Training so the people who post news keep the site accessible

Built in, not bolted on

Features public agencies actually need

  • Meeting and agenda center

    Agendas, packets, minutes and video in one place, with a home-page link that updates itself.

  • Legal notices

    Searchable notices with the first-published date shown, plus email subscriptions for residents.

  • Records-ready publishing

    Every page revision kept, point-in-time views, and exports your archives can accept.

  • Multilingual content

    Human-reviewed translations for vital pages, not just a machine-translate widget.

  • Alerts and emergencies

    A site-wide banner for storms, boil-water notices and closures, posted in seconds.

  • Transparency pages

    Structured pages for budgets, audits, tax rates and elected officials.

  • .gov migration

    We help you register with CISA’s get.gov and move your site and redirects without broken links.

  • Visitor statistics without cookies

    See how many people visit, which pages they read and how they found you. No cookies are set, so there is no cookie banner and no consent pop-up. Included with every site.

  • Privacy by default

    No advertising pixels or trackers, and a privacy policy that matches what the site collects.

Tell us what kind of agency you are. We will tell you which rules apply and what we would build.

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