Tools that make the invisible visible
Open data tools and research built from public datasets. Each project started from a question no one in the room could answer.
childcare.support
Plain-language notes from CDSS licensing webinars, searchable by topic or by the agency that ran the session — with the official slides, including the Chinese and Spanish decks, linked alongside.
24 webinars turned into notes that stay findable, with every fact carrying the quote and the source it came from.
SF 2027 Needs Assessment Data Crosswalk
Every item the state needs-assessment template requires and every county RFP component, mapped to a specific source — with its URL, the year the data represents, the geography it reaches, and the breakdowns it supports.
Names 9 gaps and 12 source conflicts before the 2027 assessment starts, so nobody discovers them mid-project.
SF ECE Meeting Record
A decade of San Francisco early childhood governance read across the three bodies that keep separate records of it — the department, the Board of Supervisors, and the school district — merged into one dated chronology.
Turns “when was this last raised, and by whom” into a lookup with a citation attached.
SF ECE Landscape Dashboard
1,000+ facilities across 11 districts, 27 ZIP codes, and 6 data sources — stitched together from public licensing, subsidy, and census data into one interactive view.
Used to identify that 567 of 1,144 licensed facilities are NOT in the subsidy system.
SF ECE Policy Simulator
Model how policy changes — funding levels, eligibility criteria, subsidy rates — affect San Francisco's child care landscape. Adjust parameters and see projected outcomes in real time.
Built so community stakeholders can make decisions looking at the same numbers.
CA Childcare Private Equity Analysis
Maps 1,225 PE-backed programs (8.78%) across 15 parent companies in California's 13,956 licensed childcare centers, with county breakdowns and compliance comparisons.
First public analysis of private equity ownership in California child care.
CA Childcare Ownership: NP vs FP
Full ownership landscape of California licensed childcare — nonprofit, government, faith-based, and for-profit. Reveals a structural shift: for-profit independents have exploded since 2010.
Shows where ownership is shifting and what that means for care quality and access.