Three of the mayor's priorities, three working prototypes
Each tool answers a concrete operational question: where the five city-owned grocery stores should go to close the largest food-access gaps, how a small-business owner responds to a summons, and which approvals stand between an affordable-housing idea and lease-up (40 processes across 18 offices and agencies, per the mayor's COGE charter revision committee).
Making groceries cheaper
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. Built on public data; illustrative, not an acquisition list.
Ownership & small business
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 (cure, fight, pay, default) explained, including how to fix a missed hearing.
Building affordable housing
NYC Affordable Housing Approvals Navigator
Pick one of three real Brooklyn affordable-housing projects (drawn from HPD and DOB NOW open data), 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.
Built by the State Capacity Ecosystem team and collaborators. Each prototype here was built in hours with AI against a stated mayoral priority. Are you a government practitioner, a technologist curious about civic work, or an expert with a reaction to the post? We want to hear from you.
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