Plan your civic tech project.
Start with a shared whiteboard and end with a real plan: the idea mapped out, the work in stages, and roles decided by community vote. Free for any New Yorker with a civic idea.
How it works
A plan with people attached.
Roles are decided by community vote from the start, so the plan you finish is one a real team builds — not a document that sits in a drawer.
- 01
Whiteboard the idea
Sketch the civic problem you want to solve. Get it out of your head and onto a shared board where collaborators can see it take shape.
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Stage the work
Break the idea into milestones and deliverables — what needs to happen, in what order, before a developer can pick it up.
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Assign roles by vote
Roles get decided on record, not by whoever shouts loudest — a council-inspired governance vote among stakeholders assigns who owns what.
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Produce a spec
The plan comes out the other side as a real spec — scope, milestones, and owners a developer can act on immediately.
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Hand off to engineers
Your staffed, specced plan is ready to build. It's a real handoff, not a doc that dies in a drawer.
Plan the idea. Stage the work. Hand it to builders.
Start planning for free — no approval needed, no credit card, no city affiliation required.
When your plan and team are ready, the project moves to CodeNOW Platform, where developers build and run it.
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