We provide financial tools & advisory services that help districts and municipalities of all sizes use data to improve their organization's financial health. Our team has a combined 50+ years of experience helping districts & municipalities of all sizes & situations gain clarity into their financial data.
Dashboards for every role
Our dashboards range in scope from district-wide overviews to individual student pages, ensuring that all staff have a view that is helpful.
Chief Financial Officers, Business Managers and Budget Directors get access to essential data to stay one step ahead of important trends and financial activities. Review progress, address challenges, and share key information with stakeholders, including superintendents, school board, department heads, and principals.
Most relevant dashboards for CFOs:
General Fund Monitor
View how the general fund budget is trending compared to the prior year, identify departments or accounts that are likely to be overspent, and see where you may have opportunities to move money.
Payroll Explorer
View how your payroll has changed from week to week and monitor variable costs like overtime.
Purchasing & Invoices
Displays detailed tables on requisitions, open purchase orders for the current and prior year, status of requisitions, and invoices to be paid.
Our tools & services
Whether you’re a new leader trying to understand what’s going on in your organization or a seasoned veteran wanting to improve your processes, we can help. We provide the tools & services that we found most useful while managing & improving the financial conditions of multiple award-winning school districts & municipalities.
Financial planning & budget development
Process improvement
Strategic planning
Organizational effectiveness
Daily Finance Briefing
General Fund Monitoring
Payroll Explorer
Purchasing & Invoices
Vendor Lookup
Grants management
Multi-year financial planning
Revenue, expense & payroll projections
Health insurance savings finder
Payroll projections
Open Architects (OA) provides custom-built visualization tools to give public service leaders the information they need to make data-informed decisions. Our tools seamlessly collect, combine, analyze, and present data from disparate sources. Staffed by former practitioners, OA creates the tools we wish we had when we worked in public service roles.
Next steps
Fill out our contact form and we will reach out to you to schedule a needs assessment call where we can learn more about your organization and how we can help.
Fill out our contact form
We schedule a call with your team to discuss your data needs
We decide how best we can help and start our partnership
Integrated data
We do all the heavy lifting to collect, clean, and organize your data, so there is virtually no set up work on your end. Some of the many systems we support are shown below.
Bring your work together
Our dashboards refresh nightly and can be customized to fit your unique needs.
Daily Finance Briefing
Displays an overview of the general fund budget, recently paid bills, and how payroll has changed over the last month.
Purchasing & Invoices
Displays detailed tables on requisitions, open purchase orders for the current and prior year, status of requisitions, and invoices to be paid.
Vendor Lookup
Displays key information about vendors.
General Fund Monitor
View how the general fund budget is trending compared to the prior year, identify departments or accounts that are likely to be overspent, and see where you may have opportunities to move money.
Grants Management
District-wide grants monitoring tool for seeing how much you have left to spend in your grants and how you can reallocate funds to improve your program.
Payroll Explorer
View how your payroll has changed from week to week and monitor variable costs like overtime.
