In April of this year, I helped start a new company called Civic Elevator. We are focused on enterprise software for the vertical transportation industry. We’re hiring people to join the team– more on that below.
When I left Ad Hoc in October 2018, I wanted to take the proverbial time off to figure out what was up and what I was looking to do.
Instead, I jumped directly into consulting for a large elevator parts manufacturer run by a good friend. We had wanted to work together for years, and we finally got the time to do so, This was a lot of fun and allowed me to crystallize and codify my concept of ethnographic management consulting. I wrote about that last October— I use photography, sketching, ideation, user stories, and ideation as a way to solve our common problems and make everything better.
I learned and refined these approaches over decades of work in a variety of roles, sectors, and industries. I’ve worked in hyperlocal journalism, open data, open government, tech philanthropy, community technology, civic tech, user experience research, and government technology.
I care about software and people. Software and people are everywhere. Including elevators. Here’s more on that:
Civic Elevator is a small, fully-funded enterprise software company focused on the vertical transportation industry. We’re led by pioneers in the disciplines of open data, gov tech, and community technology and we’re building out our team now.
By “small” we mean we’re currently a team of three along with a few consultants. Daniel X. O’Neil runs product, Chris Gansen runs technology, and Kyla Williams runs operations. We’re looking to bring on just a few people in product, research, and development roles to increase capacity.
Our near-term goal is to launch a minimum viable product for our current customer base, which is a cohort of medium-sized elevator service contractors on the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic region.
With our work, we seek to reduce toil, scale effectiveness, and unlock knowledge for others. We work on interesting problems for a small community of users, allowing us to deeply listen and build tools that provide value fast.
By joining our all-remote team, you’ll have an immediate impact on our product.
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