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Concept Plus changes the engine while it runs
Government software rarely gets a clean slate. Concept Plus has built its business around a harder assignment: modernize the systems people already depend on, while keeping them working.
DataHouse and the art of staying useful
Schools, banks, and hospitals cannot pause for a software upgrade. Hawaii’s DataHouse has built a business around that inconvenient fact.
Sentinel Offender Services: The bracelet is only the beginning
An ankle monitor can tell you where someone went. Sentinel built a business around what happens next - and who pays for it.
Resultant makes the hard part work
A career tool inside an unemployment claim. A factory migration that finishes before Monday. Resultant builds its consulting business around the awkward distance between a good idea and a working system.
cBEYONData + SMX: Follow the money. Fix the machinery.
Government money moves through enormous systems. cBEYONData + SMX works in the awkward space between recording a transaction and understanding what it means.
MERP makes the paperwork move.
A pesticide application, a laboratory audit, a gambling license. MERP Systems connects the records and decisions behind public services - with Microsoft software and a taste for the administrative weeds.
Vassar Labs connects the dots before the water rises
A reservoir, a farm and a city pipe share the same water. Vassar Labs builds software to help the people managing them see the same picture.
AstreaX: The DMV without the detour
The Arizona software company helps governments put motor vehicle services in citizens’ hands. Its most interesting idea is giving states control of the code - and its hardest lesson is that free code still needs a budget.
SGS Technologie makes the paperwork move
A $396,840 county website contract reveals the business behind SGS Technologie: turning the slow, awkward machinery of organizations into software people can actually use.
CGI built a business on staying
The technology industry loves a launch. CGI makes its living in the years that follow, when banks, utilities and governments need the machinery to keep working.
Synapse ITS and the trip you never take
A traffic signal breaks. Before a technician turns the ignition, Synapse ITS wants them to know why. Its bet on connected roadside hardware puts the humble maintenance call at the center of smarter streets.
NEOGOV and the art of getting government hired
A public health agency reported cutting its hiring time from 130 days to 61. NEOGOV’s story lives in the paperwork, handoffs, and human habits behind those missing 69 days.
Career Team works on the space between jobs.
A job opening is only the beginning. Career Team runs workforce programs and builds the software that helps people move from an application to a working life.
SCRAM Systems and the hours between tests
A bracelet that checks for alcohol every 30 minutes changed what courts could see. The harder question is what they do with the information.
REI Systems makes the paperwork move
A grant is a promise. Getting it to the right people takes software, patience, and a surprising amount of plumbing. REI Systems has built a business around that gap.
ViON Corporation: The cloud had a street address
ViON helped government agencies buy computing like a utility, inside their own data centers. Its story runs from a 48-hour server deployment to a cloud-business sale and a sharper focus on AI.
Orijin puts a classroom in prison. The next lesson is getting hired.
The agency pays. The learner studies free. Orijin’s secure tablets bring education into correctional facilities - and its acquisition of Honest Jobs follows the student through the prison gate.
Clearview AI made the internet a police lineup
A face, a photograph, a possible name. Clearview AI sells investigators a shortcut through 70 billion images - and has made the meaning of “public” a very expensive argument.
SoundThinking hears the shot. What happens next?
The company behind ShotSpotter built a business around gunfire that nobody reports. Its larger wager is that connecting an alert to an investigation can make the listening worth the bill.
Sanborn made maps for fires. Now it maps what comes next.
The fire-insurance mapmaker became a geospatial company with aircraft, lidar and municipal software. Its enduring trick is turning a place into information someone can act on.
Informatix and the art of getting the money through
After California’s child-support computer system failed, Informatix helped counties go back to what worked. Its business today is a lesson in modernizing the machinery families depend on, one piece at a time.
Quarterhill’s quiet business: keeping you moving
A truck can be weighed without stopping. A toll can be settled without a booth. Quarterhill sells the systems behind those small miracles - and has learned how expensive invisible work can become.
Aperia finds the money lost between systems
A two-hour claims process became an eight-minute job. Inside the Dallas technology company that connects the systems banks, healthcare administrators, and port investigators depend on.
GTS Technology Solutions and the Trouble With 7,000 Boxes
A school can buy thousands of computers and still be nowhere near ready for Monday. GTS Technology Solutions has built its business around the work that happens between the purchase order and the first useful click.
Dominion Voting and the price of being believed
Dominion built machines to count paper ballots. After false claims turned its name into a political weapon, its new owner, Liberty Vote, inherited a harder assignment: making the count believable.
RedMane and the case of the missing desk
Human services happen in homes, hospitals, and hurried conversations. RedMane builds the software to follow them there - and its projects reveal why moving the screen is easier than moving the system.
The Satellite Network That Would Rather Not Be the Internet
Most satellite networks want to bring you the internet. Logos Space is betting that governments and large companies will pay for something more peculiar and more valuable: a private road around it.
Galaxy Backbone wants Nigeria’s government to stop buying the same IT twice
Built to connect a fragmented public sector, Nigeria’s state-owned technology company now sells cloud, connectivity and a place to keep the country’s data. Its hardest job is turning shared infrastructure into services people actually use.
Aker Systems takes five months out of the data queue
The British data specialist says it cut Home Office integration times from seven months to two. Its business is built around a stubborn problem: getting sensitive information to the people who can use it.
Solirius Reply and the hard work behind a simple public service
A court notification can hide a surprisingly large job. Inside the consultancy that helps government teams untangle the work, test the service and make it usable.