GovFetchr.AI brings together decades of experience in civic technology, public administration, user-centered design, marketing, and government outreach to create a better online experience for local governments and their residents.
These strengths work together from early planning through launch and ongoing use. Each addresses a challenge city and county leaders face when they modernize their website.
Why it helps your governmentYour website plan starts with an understanding of how your offices work and what residents need to accomplish.
Experience leading Indy.Gov and serving city and county clients through eGov Strategies helps us identify priorities, organize information, and plan a practical path from today’s site to a better resident experience.
Why it helps your governmentResidents get a familiar website plus direct answers linked to official sources, across desktop and mobile.
Experience in user interface design, public websites, and visual communication shapes clear paths to services and information. Accessibility review is part of the publishing and design workflow.
Why it helps your governmentStaff get a simpler way to keep information current, without mastering a complicated content management system.
Work on civic website platforms, agendas, forms, and online services informs GovFetchr’s knowledge-based approach: staff add information, review suggested placement, and publish it where residents can use it.
Why it helps your governmentLeaders and departments have a clearer path to launch, with decisions grounded in the realities of local government.
Automated accessibility checking, content currency watchdogs, government outreach, client support, and former city council experience help connect leadership priorities with staff workflows. We focus on an approach your team can sustain after launch.
GovFetchr founder Ken Barlow has spent more than 30 years helping local governments use technology to serve residents online. With GovFetchr, he's assembled an experienced team in the strategic areas listed above to work together to guide the evolution of a new civic technology platforms that builds upon our successes with eGov's eGov Manager and Enterprise Payment Platform solutions.
As a special assistant to the Mayor, Ken led an Indianapolis and Marion County website initiative that earned national recognition in the 1990s.
Ken later co-founded eGov Strategies, serving city and county clients from Key West, Florida, to Nome, Alaska. The work spanned websites, services, payments, forms, and agendas.
That experience includes micro-website and payment solutions for more than 30 Maine towns and enterprise payment portal work supporting clients including Harris County, Texas.
See how GovFetchr can apply this experience to your community’s website initiative.