Good Citizens · Work

Work

If you need software and can’t afford to waste money on it, we build a small, real piece first and show it to you working on a date we agree at the start.

How we work ↓

How we work with you

Paid engagements

Product thinking and software design, in two kinds of work. Everything we bill for is one or the other, and both end on a date.

How it’s priced: by the week. Each week is a fixed price, agreed before it starts, so you know the whole cost up front. No hourly billing and no retainer, and you can stop after any week. The first conversation is free.

ONE WEEK, A DAY AT A TIME · OPEN EVERY DAYREFINEWEDBUILDTHUTESTFRIMEASURESATANALYZESUNINTERPRETMONREFLECTTUEWEDWE EXPECTWRONG IF1 PLAN: PRIORITIES, WHAT DONE LOOKS LIKE2 OPEN ANY DAY: A LOOK AT WHAT WORKS NOWCHANGE COURSETHE SAME DAYNO WAITING FOR A DEMO DAY3 BY THE END OF THE WEEK: IT WORKS, AND YOU DECIDEKEEP GOING: THE NEXT WEEKCHANGE DIRECTIONSTOPCHEAP, AFTER ONE WEEKREFINE, BUILD, TEST, MEASURE, ANALYZE, INTERPRET, REFLECT,AND WEDNESDAY COMES AROUND AGAIN
One week, Wednesday to Wednesday · the work open to look at every day, a change of course whenever it’s wanted, working by the end of the week
ONE WEEK, A DAY AT A TIME · OPEN EVERY DAYREFINEWEDBUILDTHUTESTFRIMEASURESATANALYZESUNINTERPRETMONREFLECTTUEWEDWE EXPECTWRONG IF1 PLAN: PRIORITIES, WHAT DONE LOOKS LIKE2 OPEN ANY DAY: A LOOK AT WHAT WORKS NOWNO WAITING FOR A DEMO DAYCHANGE COURSETHE SAME DAY3 BY THE END OF THE WEEK: IT WORKS, AND YOU DECIDEKEEP GOING: THE NEXT WEEKCHANGE DIRECTIONSTOPCHEAP, AFTER ONE WEEKREFINE, BUILD, TEST, MEASURE, ANALYZE, INTERPRET, REFLECT, AND WEDNESDAY COMES AROUND AGAIN
One week, Wednesday to Wednesday · the work open to look at every day, a change of course whenever it’s wanted, working by the end of the week

The trial

Built to teach us something

A small piece of work that answers one question about your business. Before we start, we write down what we expect to find and what result would tell us we were wrong, then build the smallest thing that could give either answer.

The demo

Built so you can decide

The thing itself, working, that you open and use yourself: any day you want a look, and by the end of every week, with what we learned stated plainly beside it, including what went against us. Then you choose: keep going, change direction, or stop.

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What changed for the people we’ve worked with

Projects

  1. Case study ·

    We turn how an art business already works into software that sells for it.

    The artist Sara Paula Hoffman kept her prices, galleries and archive in separate places. We brought them into one catalog. Now every priced work shows how its price was reached, and offers go straight to her studio. A work hanging in a show sends buyers to that gallery. Each morning, a check tells her if a gallery has sold a work or changed its price.

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  2. For artists ·

    A back office for one artist

    We built a back office for the artist Sara Paula Hoffman, and now any artist can have its thirteen services. Each of your works is recorded once. Your site, prices, offers, shows, collectors and posts all read from that record.

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