A parking app taught Alex Stephany how to bring strangers together. At Beam, he has applied that experience to jobs, homes and the paperwork that stands between people and support.
The company that crowdfunded routes out of homelessness now sells AI tools to frontline services. Its wager: less paperwork can buy more time for people.
Nunavut runs a province-sized service stack across an Arctic map with no roads linking its communities. Its answer is a public institution designed around distance, partnership and Inuit values - and the difficult parts are the useful ones.