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* Add Mayday case study with business-focused content Created comprehensive case study showcasing the Mayday lead generation system with emphasis on practical results and engineering decisions. - Add /case-studies landing page listing all case studies - Add /case-studies/mayday detailed case study page - Include dashboard screenshot showing system in action - Add "Case Studies" to main navigation - Update smoke tests to cover new routes - Focus content on business value and design decisions rather than technical implementation details Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add Recent Work section to homepage showcasing case studies Added prominent "Recent Work" section on homepage to immediately showcase the Mayday case study without requiring navigation discovery. - Add Recent Work section between services and CTA - Feature Mayday case study with key stats (15 hours saved, 10-15k businesses) - Clean card layout with gradient background and hover effects - Link to full case study and "View all case studies" for future additions - Increases discoverability of portfolio work for homepage visitors Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add SWAPP case study showcasing government/civic tech experience Added second case study highlighting rapid prototyping and emergency response work from Code for America fellowship in Adams County, CO. - Add /case-studies/swapp with full case study page - Update case studies index to show both SWAPP and Mayday - Update homepage Recent Work section to display both case studies - Add /case-studies/swapp route to smoke test config - Emphasize leadership role, rapid development (weekend MVP), and measurable impact (80% faster intake, 15x capacity increase) Shows range of capabilities: civic tech + business automation, Rails + Next.js, government stakeholder management. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add partner logos to SWAPP case study - Save Code for America logo as SVG file for consistency - Add Adams County Office of Community Safety & Wellbeing logo - Update partner section to use both logos with 2-column layout - Change from resume-style "About" section to client/project framing - Mention both partner organizations in description Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add photos to SWAPP case study for visual storytelling - Add city hall line photo showing centralized intake bottleneck - Add intake session photo showing field-ready solution in action - Create side-by-side layout with caseworker testimonial and photo - Darken Adams County logo background for better contrast - Rename uploaded images for clarity Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add Let's Learn Together case study showcasing advisory work - Create LLT case study highlighting operations and vendor evaluation - Show different capability: technical advisor vs. custom development - Document 2-phase approach: spreadsheet optimization + platform adoption - Include client testimonials showing immediate time savings - Add to case studies index and smoke test routes Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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‎app/case-studies/llt/page.tsx‎

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import type { Metadata } from "next";
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import Link from "next/link";
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import HeroSimple from "@/components/HeroSimple";
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import CTA from "@/components/CTA";
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export const metadata: Metadata = {
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title: "Case Study: Let's Learn Together | Good Robot Co.",
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description: "How we helped a growing tutoring agency streamline operations, evaluate business software, and implement the right platform for long-term growth.",
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};
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export default function LLTCaseStudy() {
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return (
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<>
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<HeroSimple
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title="Let's Learn Together: Operations & Technology Advisory"
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subtitle="From manual spreadsheets to scalable systems—saving hours weekly and setting up a tutoring agency for growth"
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/>
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<main className="max-w-4xl mx-auto px-6 py-16 space-y-16">
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{/* The Challenge */}
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<section>
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<h2 className="text-3xl font-bold text-charcoal mb-6">The Challenge</h2>
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<p className="text-lg text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed mb-4">
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<Link
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href="https://letslearntogetherhtx.com"
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className="text-coral hover:underline"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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Let&apos;s Learn Together
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</Link>{" "}
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is a Houston-based tutoring agency providing personalized in-home academic support for
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children ages 3-18. As the business grew, their operations became increasingly complex:
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tracking tutors, managing schedules, invoicing families, and reconciling payments.
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</p>
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<p className="text-lg text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed mb-4">
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Everything ran through manual spreadsheets. Billing calculations were done by hand.
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Invoice generation was copy-paste. Every week, <strong>hours disappeared</strong> into
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tedious administrative work that could be automated—but the team didn&apos;t have the
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technical background to know where to start.
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</p>
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<p className="text-lg text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed">
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They needed two things: immediate relief from the spreadsheet chaos, and a long-term
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plan to adopt software that could scale with the business.
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</p>
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</section>
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{/* What We Did */}
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<section>
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<h2 className="text-3xl font-bold text-charcoal mb-6">What We Did</h2>
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<p className="text-lg text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed mb-6">
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This was a <strong>2-month advisory engagement</strong> focused on optimizing operations
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and guiding technology decisions.
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</p>
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<div className="space-y-8">
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<div>
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<h3 className="text-xl font-bold text-charcoal mb-3">Phase 1: Immediate Relief</h3>
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<p className="text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed mb-3">
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First, we fixed the spreadsheets. Rebuilt the billing and invoicing workbooks with
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proper formulas, automated calculations, and clearer organization. Not a complete
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solution, but enough to buy back hours every week while we planned the long-term fix.
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</p>
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<div className="bg-white border-l-4 border-sage p-6 rounded-r-lg shadow-sm">
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<p className="text-lg text-charcoal/90 mb-2">
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&quot;I still have a lot of work to do, but your simple formulas and set up are
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saving me hours and so much stress.&quot;
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</p>
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<p className="text-charcoal/60 text-sm">— Sara Ho, Founder</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h3 className="text-xl font-bold text-charcoal mb-3">Phase 2: Vendor Evaluation</h3>
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<p className="text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed mb-4">
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Evaluated three business management platforms designed for tutoring agencies:{" "}
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<strong>Teachworks</strong>, <strong>Sawyer</strong>, and{" "}
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<strong>TutorCruncher</strong>. Sat in vendor demos, asked technical questions, and
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helped the team understand trade-offs between features, pricing, and complexity.
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</p>
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<div className="bg-cream/50 border-l-4 border-coral p-6 rounded-r-lg">
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<h4 className="font-bold text-charcoal mb-2">Key Decision Factors</h4>
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<ul className="space-y-2 text-charcoal/80">
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<li className="flex items-start">
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<span className="text-coral mr-2">•</span>
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<span>
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<strong>Fit with internal processes:</strong> Which platform matched their
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existing workflow vs. forcing them to change
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</span>
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</li>
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<li className="flex items-start">
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<span className="text-coral mr-2">•</span>
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<span>
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<strong>Team size and simplicity:</strong> Avoiding over-engineered solutions
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with features they didn&apos;t need
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</span>
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</li>
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<span className="text-coral mr-2">•</span>
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<span>
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<strong>Pricing and scalability:</strong> Cost-effective now, but able to grow
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with the business
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</span>
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</li>
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<span>
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<strong>Client and customer experience:</strong> Easy for families to book,
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pay, and communicate
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</li>
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<li className="flex items-start">
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<span className="text-coral mr-2">•</span>
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<span>
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<strong>Ease of adoption:</strong> How quickly the team could learn the new
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system and start using it
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</span>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h3 className="text-xl font-bold text-charcoal mb-3">Phase 3: Implementation Support</h3>
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<p className="text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed mb-3">
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After evaluating all three platforms, <strong>Teachworks</strong> emerged as the
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clear choice. It matched their processes, scaled appropriately for their team size,
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and provided the best balance of features and simplicity.
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</p>
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<p className="text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed">
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Provided technical guidance during onboarding: data migration planning, workflow
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setup, and troubleshooting integration questions. The platform is now ready to
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launch and replace the manual spreadsheet process entirely.
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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{/* The Result */}
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<section>
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<h2 className="text-3xl font-bold text-charcoal mb-6">The Result</h2>
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<div className="grid md:grid-cols-2 gap-6 mb-8">
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<div className="bg-white p-6 rounded-lg border border-charcoal/10">
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<div className="text-3xl font-bold text-coral mb-2">Hours</div>
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<strong>Weekly time savings</strong> from optimized spreadsheets—immediate relief
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before platform adoption
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</div>
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<div className="text-3xl font-bold text-coral mb-2">3</div>
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<strong>Vendors evaluated</strong> with technical guidance to make an informed
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decision
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</div>
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<div className="bg-white p-6 rounded-lg border border-charcoal/10">
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<div className="text-3xl font-bold text-sage mb-2">2 months</div>
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<strong>From chaos to clarity</strong>—spreadsheet optimization to vendor selection
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to implementation
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</p>
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</div>
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<div className="bg-white p-6 rounded-lg border border-charcoal/10">
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<div className="text-3xl font-bold text-sage mb-2">Ready</div>
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<strong>Platform launching soon</strong> to replace manual processes with scalable
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automation
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="bg-white border-l-4 border-sage p-6 rounded-r-lg shadow-sm">
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<p className="text-xl text-charcoal font-semibold mb-3">
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&quot;...and am LOVING this new system! Saves me so many hours of tedious work!&quot;
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</p>
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<p className="text-charcoal/60">— Sara Ho, Founder</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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{/* What This Demonstrates */}
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<section>
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<h2 className="text-3xl font-bold text-charcoal mb-6">What This Demonstrates</h2>
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<div className="space-y-4 text-lg text-charcoal/80 leading-relaxed">
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<p>
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<strong>Technical advisory for non-technical clients.</strong> Not every business
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needs custom software—sometimes they need someone who can evaluate off-the-shelf
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solutions, ask the right questions, and guide them to the best choice for their
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situation.
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</p>
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<p>
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<strong>Understanding operations, not just code.</strong> Optimizing spreadsheets
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isn&apos;t glamorous work, but it solved an immediate problem while buying time for
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the real solution. Good consulting means solving the problem in front of you first.
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</p>
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<p>
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<strong>Vendor evaluation with business context.</strong> Led technical conversations
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in vendor demos, translated features into business value, and helped a non-technical
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team make a confident decision between competing platforms.
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</p>
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<p>
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<strong>Two-phase approach: quick wins + long-term fix.</strong> Immediate relief
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(spreadsheet optimization) while planning the sustainable solution (platform adoption).
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This keeps the business moving while building the right foundation.
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</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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</main>
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{/* CTA - Full width section outside constrained container */}
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<CTA
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headline="Need help choosing the right technology?"
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subheadline="From vendor evaluation to custom solutions, we help businesses make smart technology decisions. Let's talk about your operations."
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/>
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</>
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);
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}

‎app/case-studies/page.tsx‎

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const caseStudies = [
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{
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slug: "swapp",
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title: "SWAPP: Severe Weather Emergency Response",
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tagline: "From 11 minutes to 2.5 minutes—80% faster intake during emergencies",
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description:
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"Led development of a rapid-response system for Adams County, Colorado that streamlined hotel voucher distribution for people experiencing homelessness during severe weather. Weekend prototype to production deployment, preventing 8,300+ nights of unsheltered homelessness.",
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highlights: [
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"80% reduction in intake time (11 min → 2.5 min)",
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"15x increase in capacity (8,300+ nights vs. 500)",
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"Weekend prototype to production in weeks",
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"560+ people served in one cold weather season",
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],
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tech: ["Ruby on Rails", "PostgreSQL", "Twilio", "SendGrid"],
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},
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title: "Mayday: Intelligent Lead Generation",
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tech: ["Next.js 14", "PostgreSQL", "Google Places API", "TypeScript"],
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},
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{
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slug: "llt",
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title: "Let's Learn Together: Operations & Technology Advisory",
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tagline: "From manual spreadsheets to scalable systems",
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description:
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"Helped a Houston tutoring agency optimize billing operations and adopt the right business management platform. Evaluated three vendors, provided technical guidance, and implemented a solution that saves hours weekly while enabling growth.",
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highlights: [
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"Hours of weekly time savings from spreadsheet optimization",
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"3 vendors evaluated with technical guidance",
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"2-month engagement from chaos to clarity",
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"Platform ready to launch and scale with business",
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],
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tech: ["Spreadsheet Optimization", "Vendor Evaluation", "Teachworks", "Operations Advisory"],
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},
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];
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export default function CaseStudiesPage() {

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