Who builds these

Neighbors in Flagstaff, Arizona, giving away what they know how to make.

Nobody here is paid. The websites are built by volunteers who already have a trade, and who decided that some of what they make should belong to the town instead of being sold to it. One person has done most of the building so far.

David Zatara

Engineer · Data scientist · Product builder

David began on drill sites as a geotechnical engineer, ran a marketing agency for eleven years, lined up clean-water data for UNICEF across fifteen countries, and fixed how work moved between teams at a telecom company. Since 2024 he has built the websites in this library with the volunteers here, each one started by a question a neighbor asked.

His story, and the case studies

How the work gets done

Four habits, each learned on a job before this one. Each one now shows in a website you can open.

1 · Learned on drill sites
Read what's underneath
One thin tube of soil has to speak for a whole hillside. So before trusting a number, ask who got counted and who got missed.
- Numbers WorldEvery step of the math is on screen, so you can check it yourself.
2 · Learned running an agency
Do the job before you teach it
Never hand off a job you haven't done yourself. Do it, write the steps down, then let go.
- Sherwood DigitalThe same publishing steps, now offered free to congregations.
3 · Learned fixing operations
Watch the handoff, not the people
Every team did its job and work still went missing. The problem lives in the space between people.
- Free ConstitutionA build that fails loudly on a single broken link, so nothing ships half-connected.
4 · Learned here
Start from the person, not the product
Every site opens with a sentence a real person would say, like "We just got a diagnosis," and gives one next step.
- MOExFour starting sentences, four paths.
- Mama Shepherd"I'm expecting." "My baby is here, and I have a question." "I'm having a hard time."

What runs through every site

Numbers you can check

Every number names who counted it and when. Where there is math, every step is shown.

Built so it can't quietly break

Content lives in plain files checked against one set of rules on every build. No database to lose, no form that can take a site down.

Usable at 3 a.m.

Big text, calm pages, nothing to sign up for, and nothing that leaves your device. Most of the sites also speak Spanish.

Everything so far

Every one is free to open. Tap a picture for the page about it.

Want one for your town?

Everything here can be copied and reused. If you have a trade and a neighbor with a question, that is enough to start. Read how we work, then write to us.