The project your IT vendor can't take on
We build the things that don't fit a help-desk contract: a custom internal tool, a member-facing app, an automation that replaces a Google Sheet held together with hope. Fixed-price, shipped in weeks, on stacks your team can keep running.
1717 Collective: a resource navigator for Richmond entrepreneurs
The 1717 Collective supports underrepresented founders in Richmond. Their team needed a way to match entrepreneurs with the right local resources (programs, capital, mentors) without rebuilding a directory from scratch.
The problem
Staff were fielding the same "what resources exist for X?" questions over and over, with answers scattered across PDFs, partner sites, and institutional memory.
What we built
An AI-powered navigator that takes a founder's situation in plain English and surfaces the specific Richmond resources that fit, with the staff in the loop on every match.
Why it shipped
Daily screen-records kept their team in the loop without weekly meetings. We built it on stacks (Nuxt, Supabase) their next vendor can pick up. Live and serving founders.
How project work fits alongside your existing IT vendor
We're a project shop, not a managed-services replacement. We build the things your IT vendor doesn't take on.
Most orgs already have someone keeping the email running and the laptops imaged. That's a different job from building a custom internal tool, an AI-powered intake flow, or a member-facing app. Trying to stretch a managed-services contract to cover it usually ends in a quote that's three times what it should be and a timeline that runs past your funding cycle.
Monument Labs is the other vendor. We come in for a defined project, usually 4–6 weeks at a fixed price, build the thing end-to-end, hand it over, and step back. Your IT vendor keeps doing what they do well; we ship the custom build they can't take on. When it's done, the code lives in your org's repo on stacks (Nuxt, Supabase, Vercel) any modern dev team can pick up.
We won't compete with your existing vendor and we won't try to wedge ourselves into ongoing maintenance. The whole engagement is bounded: you know what you're paying, what you're getting, and when it's done.
Other org work
Custom builds for Richmond organizations. Live tools, in production.
AI Ready RVA
aireadyrva.com
Internal operations platform for Richmond's AI literacy nonprofit. Team chat, AI chat, meeting transcript viewer, and an insights dashboard, all in one app the executive director actually uses day-to-day.
1717 Navigator
Pro bono / Richmond
The marquee case above. AI-powered resource matcher for Richmond entrepreneurs, built in partnership with the 1717 Collective. Live and routing founders to the right local programs.
$15K–$25K project work
Most org projects land in the MVP shape: 4–6 weeks, fixed price, deployed at the end. If you're scoping a smaller pilot first, the Sprint tier is $7,500 / 2 weeks. Either way, you know the number before we start.