Playbooks
Our events generate methods. We document them so any organizer, sponsor, or agency can reuse them.
Playbook · Live
Hackathon Sponsor Responsibility Checklist
Who owns what when you sponsor or cosponsor a state capacity hackathon: responsibilities for the lead sponsor, cosponsors, and our team, plus what sponsors get out of it. Printable and ready to hand to a funder.
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Playbook · In progress
Event Playbook
A run-anywhere guide to hosting a civic tech build night, built from what we learned running our own: run of show, space and judging logistics, partners, and problem statement design. We are collating build night feedback into the first draft now.
Prototypes & tools
Working software from our posts and build nights. Every tool runs in the browser on public data.
Prototype · From the Substack
Grocery Store Siting Tool
Identifies disadvantaged census tracts with high food insecurity and strong transit connectivity, then scores vacant city-owned lots as candidate store sites. Adjust the scoring weights and the top sites re-rank live.
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Prototype · From the Substack
NYC Summons Navigator
A plain-language guide for business owners who received a City summons: pick the issuing agency, enter the dates on the ticket, and see your deadlines and all four response options explained.
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Prototype · From the Substack
NYC Affordable Housing Approvals Navigator
Pick one of three real Brooklyn affordable-housing projects, set the financing and site facts, and get a phased roadmap of every approval between you and lease-up, including the ones the subsidy itself triggers.
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Prototype · From the build night
TIDELINE Flood Tracker
A flood-risk tracker built in one night at our Civic Tech Build Night, republished here with the builders' permission.
By David A. Lee, Dean Berkowitz & Lyndsey Kaplan
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