Years inside one of the largest municipal governments in the country revealed something unexpected. Residents, businesses, elected officials, inspectors, planners — everyone had questions, all day, every day. The surprising part was never that the answers didn't exist. They almost always did.
The problem was everything in between — information scattered across departments, buried in PDFs, trapped in legacy systems, published without the context needed to make sense of it. Finding one real answer often meant opening ten systems, downloading a dozen files, and reconciling records that didn't agree with each other.
The world doesn't have a data problem. It has an understanding problem.
That single realization became Alkartis. Compensation Atlas and TaxAssessmentLab are the first two proofs of it — not because payroll and property tax data were hard to find, but because turning them into an actual answer took hours most people don't have. We're early: two applications live, a handful more on the way, and a foundation built to keep compounding for a long time.
