For CDCs, land trusts, and the people who live there.

They ask.

After it’s decided.

Pláticas flips it. First the story of the place. Then a pin on the map. Then a concept the neighborhood can take to a hearing.

Barrio Logan · live map ESEN

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The thread

María · 2 minAquí no hay sombra para los niños.There’s no shade for the kids here.

James · 1 minThis corner floods every winter.

SMS · LupeEsa calle no tiene banqueta. Pongan el pin.

No account. No app. A pin and a sentence — in the language they already use.

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Most platforms stop at asking.

A survey after the drawings is theater.

Informing and consulting is often just tokenism.

Agency software treats the block like a focus group.

Arnstein named the ladder in 1969. We still live on the bottom rungs.

The neighborhood keeps the pen.

Today the drawing comes first.

A PDF. A workshop. A form nobody finishes. Then a report that says you were consulted.

First they learn the place.

History, flooding, the corner store, the shade. Value on the way in — not a homework assignment on the way out.

Then they mark it.

English, español, or a text. The pin is evidence. The thread is the record.

We flip the order. Three steps.

01The Storybefore a single pin

We listen. History, lived experience, what the block already knows about itself.

Empower before you ask. People get the place, then they give you the mark.

Oral history · neighborhood facts · nothing to download

02The Visionon the map

Together they mark what should stay, what should move, what should never have been drawn that way.

Drop a pin anywhere. Comments translate as they land.

03The Conceptsthey can defend

Feedback becomes design and policy language a CDC can walk into a hearing with.

Not a dashboard of vanity. Evidence with a street attached.

1948 · the freeway cut the block in two
Mi abuelo tenía la carnicería en esa esquina
The park floods from November to March
No hay sombra a las 3 de la tarde
The Story
Lived history first
English and Spanish in the same thread
No login to leave a mark
Then the map opens
The Vision12 pins today
PinShade for the playgroundMaría
PinThis corner floodsJames
SMSNo hay banqueta en 27thLupe
PinKeep the carnicería lot localElena
The map
47 pins · 2 languages
Shade, flood, sidewalk, land
Moderated by the CDC
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The hearing
A concept with names, streets, and a record they own.

One flat price. Per engagement.

$0/yearNo annual contract. No auto-renew. You are not locked into a city-platform license.

3 monthsHosting included. Setup done. Two rounds of revisions. Then you decide if it continues.

YoursThe data stays with the community. We don’t harvest it, sell it, or lock you out of the relationships you built.

No SaaS year$0 lock-in One project3 months live The recordstays yours

Bilingual firstEnglish and Spanish on every screen. Comments translate as they land.

SMS for the restIf they don’t have data, they text. The pin still hits the map.

Priced for nonprofitsGrassroots budgets. No hidden seats. No enterprise theater.

You moderateLeaders guide the thread. Not a comment dump with no one at the wheel.

Built for the people who already do the work.

Community Development Corporations, environmental justice groups, land trusts. A park, a street, a trail, a housing project, a corridor.

Empower before you ask

Residents get the story of the place before anyone extracts a quote from them.

English and Spanish, same screen

Not a plugin. Not Google slapped on top. The thread is bilingual from the first pin.

No account to speak

Nothing to download. A comment without a login. SMS if the phone is all they have.

The data is yours

We don’t sell the neighborhood. You walk out with the record, not a CSV hostage.

This is not an agency platform.

Those tools were built so a city can say it asked. This one was built so a block can say it decided.

What an engagement includes.

SetupThe platform, liveYour map, your languages, your story of the place. We stand it up. You don’t learn a CMS.Complete setup

LiveThree months onHosting, the thread, SMS, translation, moderation tools. The neighborhood uses it. You watch the pins land.Included

CraftTwo roundsCopy, structure, the story layer. We revise twice so the page sounds like the block, not like a consultant.In the price

Longer work and facilitation, if you need it.

Some projects want a person in the room, not just a map. That’s a separate engagement. The platform still stands on its own.

Cancel any time. No auto-renew.

When the three months end, you keep the record. You are not paying for a seat you forgot you had.

One priceper engagement · no annual · bilingual · SMS · the data stays with you

This is the site. We can put it on platicas.app.

Same product. A page that moves like the work: listen, mark, decide. Live this week if you want it.

Yes — put it live I have a question

The message is already written. One tap. We point platicas.app at this page.

A pin → a voice that counts