Public Interest Technology Consulting

The Internet sucks. Let's make it better.

We are a boutique shop that develops custom Web and SAAS applications for social good using sustainable technology.

We like open source software and build minimalist systems on Unix derived platforms.
Recommend Operating Systems:

We do not like bloated heavy software frameworks and instead custom build and design all of our webapps in house using HTML and CSS directly. We are currently using free tiers on neocities for our static hosting and pythonanywhere for some light backend and database support.

For office and graphics on the desktop we use and recommend the following open source projects:

Online services are necessary for some things. Protonmail offers a full range of quality email and online productivity products that are privacy focused and offer advanced encryption protections and freedom from ad tech surveillance and marketing. Highly recommended as a drop in replacement for other major providers. Free and paid plans are available. You may also like Jitsi Meet as a video conferencing alternative. Ask us for other alternative software recommendations specific to your needs.

Our services have been developed out of decades of professional experience at the intersection of arts, culture, and technology and are intended to be responsive to social needs in the local community at the grass roots level. If you would like to know more about the big picture of what is happening at the global level in public interest technology and tech for social good, feel free to refer to these resources:

If you would like to help us get set up for business we could use assistance with the following items: