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Good Local Gov

Good Local Gov, Consulting + Software

Real help for the peoplewho run your town.

Helping good people do good work.

We’re a collective of practitioners and a software shop for small and mid-sized local governments — planning, permitting, data, and climate work, built by people who’ve sat at the permit counter and written the staff report.

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Founded by Jordan Jerkovich — local-government practitioner, builder of One(GoodGov).

WHAT WE OFFER

Three ways we help.

The shape is one you already know from the big software companies — a consulting arm, a platform, and the platform's apps offered on their own. Ours is just sized for city hall.

The Collective

Our consulting arm — practitioners who've worked the counter, written the staff report, and stood up at the hearing. One office for hire: AI & automation, data & analysis, and climate action, done with your staff.

Meet the Collective

One(GoodGov)

Our platform — one calm workspace for the office's work, communications, and records. We build it for the offices we serve; it's the proof we build what we recommend.

See the platform

Toolbox

The apps inside One(GoodGov) — focused tools like Insights, Autofiler, and TurboCAP. Each one is headed for its own subscription, so a city can pick up a single tool without the whole platform.

See the Toolbox

The Collective

The Innovation & Optimization Office.

We're a bench of practitioners who've done the job inside local government — the permit counter, the staff report, the public hearing. Cities hire us the way they'd staff an innovation office they can't afford full-time: a project, ongoing support, help alongside an existing team, or the whole function part-time. The work is fast and priced for a public budget because the method is productized — software runs what software should, and you pay people only for the judgment.

How you hire the office

  • A project

    Full-service

    One scoped question, fixed fee, delivered — engagements run $12,000 – $65,000, half at signature.

  • Ongoing implementation support

    Full-service

    The plan is done; we stay to do the work, month over month — from $5,000 a month, sized to scope.

  • Alongside your team

    Assisted

    Your staff runs it; our practitioners work beside them — guidance where it counts.

  • The software alone

    Do it yourself

    The platform runs the method — the Development Review Assessment self-serve today, TurboCAP inside One(GoodGov) today.

See the three practices

One(GoodGov) — the platform

One(GoodGov). The tool we’d have wanted at the counter.

The connected workspace for local government.

One place for work, communications, information, insights — and AI that stays in the background.

No screenshots here — the demo is the real product on real work. Walk through it yourself.

  • The whole office, one place

    Work, communications, information, and insights in a single calm workspace — not another tab.

  • AI that stays in the background

    Tools, not agents: everything shows its work and waits for a human yes.

  • Toolbox included

    Every Toolbox app ships inside the platform — the next section shows them.

Explore the live TurboCAP demoVisit the full product site

You’ll still see the name One(Place) inside the product while the new name settles — same software, one name in transition.

And yes, there’s AI in it — kept in the background. A tool extends a person. An agent acts alone. Every tool in One(GoodGov) shows its work and waits for you — nothing writes to your systems without your say-so. Tools, not agents.

The Toolbox

Toolbox. The apps inside One(GoodGov) — and, soon, on their own.

Toolbox is a module inside One(GoodGov): a drawer of focused apps your staff opens when the job calls for one. These are the real apps in the product today — no mockups. We’re preparing each one for its own standalone subscription, so a city can subscribe to a single tool without adopting the whole platform. That’s coming, not live yet — when it is, this page will say so plainly.

  • In the product today

    TurboCAP

    GHG inventory and climate action planning — GPC and gov-ops inventories, data intake, published reports, and CAP scenarios.

  • Coming soon

    Data Vault

    Your organization's secure store — upload, ingest, and quality-tag the data your apps run on.

  • Coming soon

    Insights

    Narrated analytics — reports, dashboards, and plain-language interpretation of your data.

  • Coming soon

    SOP & Workflow Builder

    Capture SOPs and build workflows, routines, and actions in your Work Library.

  • Coming soon

    AutoFiler

    A content-aware file organizer — it classifies, names, and files your documents locally. Nothing is uploaded; it runs in your browser.

Try TurboCAP in the live demo

The Collective’s practices

What we do with you — never to you.

AI & Automation

The repetitive work, off your staff's plate — with a person approving every step, so the public gets speed without ever losing a human answer.

  • AI advisory & readiness

    An honest read on where AI helps your office and where it doesn't — starting, if you want, with a free one-page AI use policy and thirty minutes with your leadership.

  • Process & workflow automation

    The forms, the filing, the follow-ups — mapped honestly, then automated where a machine should do it and kept human where it shouldn't.

  • Implementation & adoption support

    We don't hand you a memo and leave — we stay while your staff makes the new way the normal way.

Flagship: Development Review Assessment

Data & Analysis

Your own records, finally telling you what's actually happening — findings with the evidence attached, in plain language you can put in front of council.

  • Development Review Assessment

    How your development review and permitting process actually performs — volume, timelines, phase dwell, and standards compliance, from your own permit records.

  • Data science & analytics

    Descriptive to statistical: the analysis your questions actually need, documented so your staff can re-run it.

  • GIS & spatial analytics

    Your community, on a map that answers questions — where the need is, where the risk is, and where the next dollar does the most good.

  • Digital twins & 3D modeling

    A working model of your community you can test decisions against — see the project, the flood, or the corridor change before anyone breaks ground.

Full-journey partnership

Climate Action with TurboCAP

A partner for the whole climb — from the first measurement to the finished project — sized to a local budget and built to outlast a single grant cycle.

  • CAP strategy & planning

    A climate action plan your community helped write and your staff can actually run — not a document for the shelf.

  • GHG analysis

    Your emissions, honestly counted — a baseline you can defend in public and measure every year against.

  • Sustainability audit

    A straight look at how your operations run today — what's working, what's wasting, and what to change first.

  • Resilience audit

    Where the next storm, fire, or heat wave will hit your community hardest — and what it takes to be ready before it does.

  • Sustainability asset management

    Every green asset your community owns — solar, fleet, trees, buildings — tracked, maintained, and earning its keep.

  • Implementation support

    The part most plans never get: we stay to do the work — automation, public outreach, volunteer coalitions, grants, GIS, and social marketing — until the plan is what your community actually did.

The measurement runs on TurboCAP, our climate software inside One(GoodGov) — GPC and gov-ops inventories, data intake, published reports, and CAP scenarios. Live in the platform today; its own standalone subscription is coming.

Two threads run through everything above: we're planners by trade, and we'll help you fund the work.

  • Planning — current, long-range, and development review

    From tomorrow's permit to the twenty-year plan: planning help from people who've worked the counter, written the staff report, and stood up at the public hearing.

  • Grant Writing Strategy & Support

    The right grants, chased the right way — an honest read on what you can win, and the writing support to go get it without burning out your staff.

Not sure which of these you need? — if the honest answer is that you don’t need us, that’s the answer you’ll get.

The Collective

Good people, on purpose.

Jordan Jerkovich

Founder

Local-government practitioner and builder of One(GoodGov) — he has sat at the permit counter and written the staff report.

Caroline Jerkovich

Partner

Partner seat — open

We're building a bench of practitioners — planners, analysts, engineers — who've done the work inside local government.

Partner seat — open

We're building a bench of practitioners — planners, analysts, engineers — who've done the work inside local government.

Proof

Work our people have led.

Engagements our founder has led

  • Turlock, CaliforniaDevelopment services & permitting assessment — delivered under a prior consulting firm.
  • Prescott, ArizonaCommunity development assessment — delivered under a prior consulting engagement.
  • Lindsborg, KansasDevelopment services engagement — proposal stage.

Where work was delivered under another firm, we say so — we won't imply a Good Local Gov contract that didn't exist.

Proposal stageLindsborg, Kansas

Development services engagement proposal

A proposed engagement for a small city's community development office: sitting with staff to map how permits, planning cases, and public requests actually move through the office, reading the office's own records, and laying out a phased scope of work sized to a small-city budget.

Proposal stage — shown as proposed scope, not delivered work. We label the difference because it matters.

AssessmentPrescott, Arizona

Community development assessment

A full look at the development services system — staffing and structure, permit timelines from the city's own records, statistical analysis with the evidence attached, and plain-language findings written for council.

Work led by our founder, delivered under a prior consulting engagement — not a Good Local Gov contract.

References available on request. We'd rather you hear it from a city than read it in a banner.

Want to see exactly what you’d get? Ask for a sample assessment excerpt when we talk.

HTLG — How To Local Gov

How To Local Gov. Figuring it out together, in public.

HTLG is a community of people learning, building, and thinking about local government out loud — permitting, data, climate, and the work of running an office. It's an occasional note on what we're figuring out and what we're still working out, published on Substack.

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Occasional means occasional. Free, and easy to leave.