One principal. No agency. No retainer model. No WordPress.

The practice was founded in 2023 and is registered in British Columbia. Before launching Fit For Gov, I built the production front-ends for Waterworth, Muniworth, and The National Strategy Council — governance platforms used by municipal councils across Canada. Fit For Gov is the boutique, founder-led continuation of that work, scoped specifically to the Canadian municipal market.

Architecture: Next.js with a headless CMS, deployed to an edge CDN. No PHP. No database. No plugin ecosystem. A typical Fit For Gov site has a total runtime dependency list of three packages. A typical WordPress municipal site has sixty. The attack surface is not comparable.

Every site ships WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, bilingual where the municipality requires it, hosted in Canadian cloud regions, and priced to fall beneath the provincial direct-award threshold. 

Your CAO can sign tomorrow.

Fit For Forward. 

If Fit For Gov is not the right team for the outcome your municipality requires, I will tell you that on the first call and connect you with the team that is. The answer is always yes or forward. It is never yes-when-no.

Founded by Jesse James, a serial entrepreneur with experience across multiple ventures, we offer:

- Full-stack web development and application building
- AI integration and vector search implementation
- Technical consulting for startups
- Community-focused technology solutions

Secure, custom civic software scoped under direct-award thresholds. No open-end

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