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The vision of Good Local Gov

Good government.
Better places.
Intentional communities.

One loop will connect your local government, Good Local Gov, the Better Places Foundation, and your local places. Each time around, the vision of Good Local Gov grows.

Tap the heart to see our vision come to life.

Fill it to find your first heart, then explore the interactive vision.

Consulting

The Intentional Innovation Office.

We know what a Tuesday at city hall looks like. One person, five jobs, and a council meeting tonight.

Professionals plus software. Think TurboTax or H&R Block, but for local government.

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The Collective

The Collective

Jordan Jerkovich, MPA, MSc

Founder and CEO

Jordan is driven by his commitment to the wellbeing of people, communities, and democracy. This fuels his passion for the grand challenges that define our time. He served as Community Development Director for the City of Lindsborg, Kansas, before spending three years as a consultant with Raftelis, where he worked on more than 30 strategic planning, organizational assessment, and implementation engagements for cities, counties, and utilities across 17 states and Canada.

Before Lindsborg, he worked with and for local government in Europe, analyzing municipal sustainability outcomes in Sweden and leading cross-sector circular economy initiatives in Scotland. He holds a Master of Public Administration in local government management from the University of Kansas and a Master of Science in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Leadership from the University of Kansas.

The Collective

Ward Lyles, PhD, AICP

Strategic Advisor for Climate Action

Ward is a Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Kansas, where he directs the Center for Compassionate and Sustainable Communities. He joined the faculty in 2013. His research asks how communities reduce long-term risk from climate change and natural hazards while centering equity, compassion, and public participation.

He has led over $1M in externally funded research and published widely on climate adaptation, just transition, and plan implementation. His work won the 2020 Best Paper in the Journal of the American Planning Association. Before his doctoral work, he worked in transportation policy at 1000 Friends of Wisconsin. He holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Collective

Joseph Cummings, PhD

Strategic Advisor for Data and Research

Joseph is a mathematician and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh. He held the same post at the University of Notre Dame from 2022 to 2025, after earning his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky. His first degree in mathematics is from the University of Kansas.

He has 11 papers published or accepted in algebraic statistics, computational algebra, and mathematical biology, in journals including the Journal of Symbolic Computation and the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. He co-wrote the MultigradedImplicitization package that ships with Macaulay2, referees for three journals, and taught statistical methods and data analysis at Notre Dame.

The Collective

Alex Coley, MSc

Consultant

Alex brings more than a decade of community engagement experience across the education, health, recreation, municipal, and nonprofit sectors in Nova Scotia, including leading consultation and trust-building work for Nova Scotia Health’s Climate Change Framework.

At pHathom, he builds lasting relationships with local communities, First Nations, and partners so that carbon removal projects are shaped by, and benefit, the places where they operate.

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Caroline de Filippis, MSc, MA

Consultant

Caroline is a sustainability and communications strategist whose work spans countries and sectors. She builds equity-centered strategies for environmental and social problems that do not sit inside one department.

As a FUSE Executive Fellow, she led Wyandotte County’s first Resiliency Assessment, covering strategic planning, data analysis, and implementation. Her background runs through stakeholder engagement, public health, and sustainability. She holds master’s degrees from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden and Grenoble IAE in France.

The Collective

Nick Tvrdy

Consultant

Nick is based in Gainesville, Florida, and brings over a decade of experience in sales, business development, and team leadership across the solar, roofing, and insurance industries. He is Sales Manager at EnLight.Energy, and earlier worked as a design and on-site project manager for Solar Heat & Electric.

His focus is the operational barriers that stop organizations from acting: the systems, the processes, and getting people to decide from the same data. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Energy, with a minor in Communication Studies, from Creighton University, and he is a certified yoga teacher.

Meet the Collective

Software

Our software, all connected in One(GLG).

TurboAI, TurboCAP, and TurboDev each take on one of local government’s hardest jobs. Every one of them connects to One(GLG), the workspace for local government, so all your work can live in one place. Goodbye silos.

Software · The workspace

One(GLG)

Limited early access

Join the first cohort

One place that pulls it all together: the connected workspace for local government, built by local government people who have actually done the job. Every app below runs inside it.

Good morning.

City of Maplewood · Tuesday · council meets at 6 PM

Needs you

3 decisions

A packet summary, a grant fit, a reply

Drafted for you

4 replies

Waiting for your yes in OneBox

Tonight

Council, 6 PM

Packet assembled · 2 items yours

First things first

Your morning, in order

  • Approve the council packet summaryPebble drafted it from the staff reports9:00
  • Reply to the Parks Board chairDraft ready in your voice9:15
  • Check the grant Scout foundFits the adopted Parks plan · due Nov 310:00
  • Work session: budget memoPlan approved · 4 steps1:00

Good morning.

City of Maplewood · Tuesday · council meets at 6 PM

Needs you

3 decisions

A packet summary, a grant fit, a reply

Drafted for you

4 replies

Waiting for your yes in OneBox

Tonight

Council, 6 PM

Packet assembled · 2 items yours

First things first

Your morning, in order

  • Approve the council packet summaryPebble drafted it from the staff reports9:00
  • Reply to the Parks Board chairDraft ready in your voice9:15
  • Check the grant Scout foundFits the adopted Parks plan · due Nov 310:00
  • Work session: budget memoPlan approved · 4 steps1:00
One(GLG) for the sample City of Maplewood, drawn from its design: a concept with sample data, not a recording of the live product. Pick a page or switch to the phone.
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  • The whole office, one place.Work, communications, information, and insights in one calm workspace, not another tab.
  • AI that stays in the background.Every tool shows its work and waits for a human yes.
  • Work that follows your procedures.A work session opens with a plan you approve, then runs the steps of your own workflows.
  • Your apps live inside it.TurboCAP runs in it today. TurboAI and TurboDev come next, shaped by the first cohort.

Software · AI

TurboAI

Limited early accessConnects with One(GLG)

Join the first cohort

Where your AI work lives: the policy your council adopts, the automations your staff approve, and a plain record of how you use AI that you can show the public. We are building it with the first cohort.

TurboAI

Concept · sample data

City of Maplewood

How the city uses AI · five uses in service · every one with a person who decides

AI use policy

The rules council adopted

  • A person decides. AI drafts, flags and suggests; a named staff member approves.
  • Your data stays yours. Nothing the city enters trains an outside model.
  • Say when AI was used. Residents can see where AI helped and who decided.
  • Review every year. Council revisits the policy and the uses each budget cycle.

Human in the lead

Every use has a named person who decides, and every AI action leaves an audit trail you can show council.

TurboAI

Concept · sample data

City of Maplewood

How the city uses AI · five uses in service · every one with a person who decides

AI use policy

The rules council adopted

  • A person decides. AI drafts, flags and suggests; a named staff member approves.
  • Your data stays yours. Nothing the city enters trains an outside model.
  • Say when AI was used. Residents can see where AI helped and who decided.
  • Review every year. Council revisits the policy and the uses each budget cycle.

Human in the lead

Every use has a named person who decides, and every AI action leaves an audit trail you can show council.

Product in development, accepting the first cohort for feedback.
  • Policy first.Start from an AI use policy your council can adopt.
  • A person approves every step.Automations take the repetitive work off your staff’s plate, and nothing goes out without a human yes.
  • Ready when the public asks.A plain record of where and how you use AI, to share with council and residents.
  • AI at cost.Usage passes through at cost, with no surcharge, and your workflows and agents stay yours.

Software · Climate Action

TurboCAP

NewLiveLimited early accessConnects with One(GLG)

Explore TurboCAP Join the first cohort

Now live. Climate action, from the first inventory to the work getting done. Upload your data in a chat with Leif, an Intentional AI Climate Analyst, see your report preview, and our team verifies every inventory before your full report is released. Then build your plan and put it to work in One(GLG).

Dashboard
Dashboard, on a phone
TurboCAP for the sample City of Pando Springs, from its final design. Pick a page or switch to the phone.
  • GPC-compliant GHG inventories with EPA factors, verified by our team
  • Climate Action Plan and Implementation Plan, built with Leif or from the plan you have
  • Every action becomes a task in Planner, beside your everyday work
  • A coalition view for regions working together

Software · Development

TurboDev

Limited early accessConnects with One(GLG)

Join the first cohort

Advanced analytics and data science on your own permit records: where development review gets stuck, why it gets stuck there, and what is likely to slow it next. We are building it with the first cohort.

TurboDev

Concept · sample data

City of Maplewood

FY 2024 development review · 1,284 permits · six phases, from your own permit records

The pipeline

Where a permit spends its 47 days

  • 3 dIntake
  • 6 dCompleteness
  • 14 dPlan review
  • 21 dCorrections
  • 5 dRe-review
  • 2 dIssuance

Six phases from application to issued permit. Corrections take the longest, and most of that wait is the applicant’s turn.

The 1,284 permits, by type

  • Residential addition538
  • Residential, new412
  • Tenant improvement238
  • Commercial, new96

From your own records

Every number traces to a permit you can open, so staff and council are looking at the same review.

TurboDev

Concept · sample data

City of Maplewood

FY 2024 development review · 1,284 permits · six phases, from your own permit records

The pipeline

Where a permit spends its 47 days

  • 3 dIntake
  • 6 dCompleteness
  • 14 dPlan review
  • 21 dCorrections
  • 5 dRe-review
  • 2 dIssuance

Six phases from application to issued permit. Corrections take the longest, and most of that wait is the applicant’s turn.

The 1,284 permits, by type

  • Residential addition538
  • Residential, new412
  • Tenant improvement238
  • Commercial, new96

From your own records

Every number traces to a permit you can open, so staff and council are looking at the same review.

Product in development, accepting the first cohort for feedback.
  • Every bottleneck, located.Time in each phase of review, by permit type, from intake to issuance.
  • The root cause of each delay.Traced back to the step where it starts.
  • What comes next.Predictive models forecast volume and timelines, so you can plan staff ahead of the trouble.
  • One month instead of six.A development services review with deeper analysis, clearer reports, and people behind it who have done the work.

The first cohort

The first cohort is open for all four, with limited spots for three to five communities each.

Pick one, or all of them that you’re interested in.

Pricing

Public Service Pricing.

We price to your budget and your spending authority, not to a rate card.

Three ways we partner with you.

  1. A single projectOne scoped question, fixed fee, delivered.
  2. A project, plus a retainer for supportThe plan is done; we stay to do the work, month over month.
  3. A full partnershipThe whole function, part-time and ongoing: we’re your intentional innovation office.

We’ll talk through pricing terms that work within your budget. If we are not a good fit, we will happily connect you with another provider who is.

A lot of companies say they mean well.

We wrote it into the contract.

  1. No AI surcharge. Ever.We pass AI usage through at cost and never profit from it, so we have no reason to put AI into everything. The only way we earn is by delivering real value and keeping you as a partner. Our goal is not a good fourth quarter this year. It is a good fourth quarter thirty-five years from now.
  2. You own your data, your workflows, and your agents, even if we go out of business.This is about resilience. Your data and workflows are your documented institutional knowledge, so they stay yours, not ours. You need to run on them whether or not the AI is working that day, whether or not a vendor stays in business, and whether or not AI is in the picture at all.
  3. Humans stay in the lead.This is how we protect trust, democracy, and the integrity of public service. Every action leaves an audit trail, with a person you can reach, human oversight, and clear accountability. It is about the future of local government: protecting it, and making it better.

If we break one of those, the contract ends.

The conversation

None of this works if we build it alone.

It has to be built with the people doing the work. We want to sit down with as many local government professionals as we can and hear what you think of what we’ve built.

Here’s what we’ll ask you:

  • What’s useful?
  • What’s missing?
  • Where did we get your job right, and where did we get it wrong?

From those conversations, we’ll build a first cohort of three to five communities that want to do this work better. More on that soon.

Tell us what you are wrestling with. · We read before we talk. · A thirty-minute call. · A scoped proposal.

Start the conversation

Register interest in the first cohort Limited places. Pick one or all.

The first call is no pressure, and it never will be. Our commitment is to your community and to you, and sometimes that means you won’t need us. If we can’t help you or aren’t a good fit, we’ll let you know and happily make referrals.