Custom software for local government · since 1995

Public services, moved online. Built to stay there.

Next Generation Solutions designs, builds, and maintains the systems counties, cities, and towns run on — online payments, permits, court records, elections, and the portals that tie them together.

30+years building software for the public sector
50+systems delivered — from single services to county-wide platforms
23 yrsour longest-running system has been in continuous daily service

01 · The problem

Paper doesn't scale. Neither does the line at the counter.

Residents expect to pay a fee, pull a permit, or check a case the way they do everything else — from a phone, in minutes. Most government software wasn't built for that. Ours is, and has been for three decades.

The counter, before

  • Payments taken in person, by check, during office hours
  • Permit applications on paper, walked between departments
  • Court fees and citations resolved only at the clerk's window
  • Public records requests answered by hand, one at a time
  • Off-the-shelf products that almost fit — bent until they break

The counter, online

  • Fees, taxes, and tickets paid online, integrated with the systems of record
  • Paperless permit intake, inspection scheduling, and license renewal
  • Court dockets, case alerts, and e-filed citations — no window required
  • Self-service records: vital documents, payment histories, exemption filings
  • Software built to fit the office, not the other way around

02 · What we build

Every window at city hall, as a service.

Fifty-plus systems across three decades cluster into a handful of things local government needs done well — again and again, department after department.

PAY-01

Payments & e-commerce

Court fees, property taxes, traffic tickets, licenses — collected online and reconciled against the systems of record, integrated with municipal payment processors.

PRM-02

Permitting & inspections

Paperless permit applications, inspection scheduling and tracking, red-tag fee payment, and contractor license renewal — a building department without the file room.

CRT-03

Courts & e-filing

Public dockets with enhanced access for legal professionals, subscription case alerts, and e-citation platforms that file tickets from the roadside into case management.

ELX-04

Elections & public info

Live election-results apps — native mobile and progressive web — with push notifications, plus polling-place lookup tools residents actually use.

PTL-05

Portals & content

County-wide information portals through four major generations, department microsites, employee intranets, and CMS platform migrations.

RSV-06

Reservations & registration

Facility reservation systems for public grounds and online registration platforms for parks and recreation programs, classes, and events.

RPT-07

Reporting & data

Scheduled and ad-hoc reporting, multi-tenant budget data collection across every department, payroll and timekeeping, and bank reconciliation feeds.

API-08

APIs & integration

Common-services REST platforms — payments, property records, identity verification — that bridge modern services to the legacy systems government already owns.

03 · How we work

Three steps. No shelf-ware.

We're a small firm by design. The architect who scopes your system is the one who builds it — and the one who answers the phone ten years later.

i.

Listen

Requirements gathered with the clerks, inspectors, and administrators who will live in the software daily — not from a template. We design around the office's real workflow and its real budget.

› "Walk us through what happens when the form lands on your desk."
ii.

Build

Modern, boring-on-purpose engineering: .NET Core, REST, Docker on Linux, SQL Server — and fluency in whatever your existing systems already speak, from case management to payment processors.

› "It has to talk to the system you bought in 2009. It will."
iii.

Stay

Government systems live for decades, so we do too. We host, monitor, migrate, and modernize what we build — some of our systems have been in continuous service for over twenty years.

› "Deliver-and-disappear isn't a maintenance plan."

Now · AI in the workflow

The newest clerk in the office reads documents.

Our recent work puts AI to work on the tasks that consume the most staff time: reading paperwork and spotting what's wrong. Applied carefully — AI drafts the judgment, staff make the call, and every decision keeps a full audit trail.

Document verification

Compliance documents uploaded by contractors are read by AI against business rules — most verify instantly, only the exceptions reach a person's desk, and nothing is ever hard-rejected by a machine.

Fraud detection

Automated scans flag likely exemption fraud across property records, with AI-generated analysis reports that point investigators straight to the evidence worth their time.

Accessibility

PDF ADA-compliance remediation tools — scanning the document archives every government keeps, flagging accessibility failures, and repairing them at scale so public records are readable by everyone.

› AI assists. Staff decide. Records show both.

04 · Track record

A legacy of innovation, one docket entry at a time.

A selection from thirty years of delivered work. Client names withheld — the systems speak for themselves.

1995

The firm is founded

Software consulting for Fortune 500 companies and local government begins — and never stops.

Consulting
2003

A county goes online

A county-wide government information portal launches, putting departments, services, and a polling-place lookup tool on the public web for the first time.

JavaPortalOpen source
2004

Public court records, published

An online docket opens court records to the public, with enhanced paid access for attorneys and media — followed by a subscription case-alerts service.

CourtsE-commerce
2006

Traffic tickets, paid from home

Online ticket payment integrated directly with the county's court case-management system — no clerk's window required.

PaymentsIntegration
2009

Citations, e-filed from the roadside

A regional e-citation platform lets state and local police file tickets electronically into court case management. A parks-program online registration service launches the same year.

E-filingMulti-agency
2010

One bill-pay service, many towns

A regional online bill presentment and payment service goes live for municipal departments across multiple towns and cities.

RegionalPayments
2012

Property-tax exemptions, filed online

Homeowners request exemption filings through a self-service web application — one of the earliest of its kind in the region.

Self-service
2014

The courthouse expands online

Criminal case fee payment and an infraction-deferral program join the family of court services, alongside electronic filing of ordinance citations.

CourtsPayments
2016

Every department, one budget system

A multi-tenant web application collects budget data from every county department; a 911 complaint-intake system launches the same year.

Multi-tenant.NET
2018

Election night, in your pocket

A native iOS and Android app delivers live election results with push notifications. A sheriff-sale management system goes live the same year.

iOSAndroidPush
2019

The building department goes paperless

A full online permit application system — intake, payment, document scanning, co-browse support — plus a reservation system for county fairground facilities. The county portal enters its fourth generation.

PaperlessPermits
2020

Vital records, requested from home

Birth and death certificate requests and electronic receipts move online — built on .NET Core, Docker, and Linux as the platform modernizes underneath.

.NET CoreDockerLinux
2022

Clerk and auditor services, rebuilt

Child-support payment history, property-exemption filing, and auditor forms migrate to a modern containerized stack — with identity verification built in.

MigrationIdentity
2023

A common services platform

A shared REST API layer — payments, property records, identity verification, election results — becomes the foundation new services build on. The elections app is reborn as a React progressive web app.

REST APIPWAReact
2024

Permits and receipts, refined

A certificate-of-occupancy workflow joins the online permit system, and health-department cash receipts gain automated daily card-transaction imports over secure file transfer.

PermitsPaymentsIntegration
2025

Running an election, end to end

Elections administration expands with candidate, office, and assignment tracking, then poll-worker management — course tracking tied to assignments, current-election controls, and bulk status updates.

ElectionsWorkflow.NET
2025

Compliance paperwork, read by AI

Contractors upload insurance, bond, and workers-comp documents to a self-service portal at any hour; AI reads each one against compliance rules, clearing most instantly and routing only the exceptions to staff — no hard rejections, full audit trail.

AIPermitsSelf-service
2026

A help desk, ticketed

A digital ticketing system for the data-processing department — status workflows and API integrations that replace email chains and hallway requests with a tracked queue.

TicketingAPI.NET
2026

Fraud detection, now with AI

Automated scans flag homestead-exemption fraud, with review queues, case detail views, and AI-generated analysis reports that point investigators straight to what matters.

AIDetection.NET Core
2026

Upgraded, and kept that way

A major platform upgrade for health-department services, paired with a premium support retainer — because staying current, not just going live, is the maintenance plan.

UpgradeSupport
2026

Payments, re-plumbed

The payment layer behind multiple public-facing applications migrates to a modern payment-processing API suite — enterprise services, reservations, and permits moved onto one current rail.

PaymentsAPI migration.NET Core
Today

The ledger stays open

Fresh department services shipping in 2026, systems from 2003 still in production — and the same architect on both ends of that span.

Ongoing

05 · Why it lasts

Built for the constraints government actually has.

Strategic approach

Solutions designed with scalability in mind, so a system serving one department today can serve twelve tomorrow — meeting long-term goals, not just the RFP.

Cost effectiveness

We leverage proven open-source products where they fit, so taxpayer dollars go into your system — not licensing overhead.

Open-source roots

Our principal architect has been an Apache Software Foundation committer since 2002, contributing to the open-source portal technology our earliest platforms ran on.

Integration fluency

Court case management, payment processors, identity verification, document scanning, push notifications — we've bridged them all, and we keep the bridges standing.

Full lifecycle

Process consulting, requirements, design, development, hosting, and implementation support — one accountable partner from first meeting to year twenty.

Modern where it matters

.NET Core services in Docker on Linux, REST APIs, and progressive web apps — modernized deliberately, without breaking what already works.

06 · Contact

Bring us the process that still runs on paper.

The best engagements start with a conversation, not a contract. Tell us about the counter line, the file room, or the aging system that keeps you up at night — we'll tell you honestly what it would take to fix it.

We respect your privacy: the details you share stay between us and are used only to respond to your inquiry.

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