Web applications, Business systems 2026
Civic engagement platform
A product experiment I built end to end: one platform that gives each organization a public website and a private dashboard for working with the community it serves. It was designed around local public officials and is shown here with demo data.
Read the Civic engagement platform case study
- The problem
- Local officials mostly talk to residents through social media. Plans get buried in the feed, questions scatter across comments and messages, and there’s no simple way to show what has actually been done. The data involved is sensitive too, so the platform had to protect residents by design, not by policy alone.
- What I built
- One platform that serves many organizations from a single codebase. Each gets a public site for its plans, projects, commitments, events and volunteers, and a private dashboard for its team. The privacy rules are part of how the data is stored, not just a policy page.
- Outcome
- Built and running end to end with demo data: public sites, the team dashboard and the privacy safeguards. It started as a product experiment and isn’t offered to clients. Its foundations (logins and roles, dashboards, inboxes, themes and custom domains) are ready to reuse in client portals and business systems.