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Costa Rica Digital · Civic & Data

Making Costa Rica's
institutions legible.

Costa Rica is building its digital layer now. We work with public institutions, municipalities, and organizations on systems that make the state legible — and turn scattered public data into something citizens and decision-makers can actually read. Civic infrastructure and data intelligence, in one practice.

For public institutions, municipalities, NGOs, multilaterals, and investigative press building — or holding accountable — Costa Rica's digital layer.

Observatorio Municipal CR · ActiveAtlas Criminalidad CR · LivePublic sector · 2025Bilingual ES + EN
Why now

Costa Rica's digital layer is being built now.

MIDEPRES, municipalities, and international organizations are investing in digital public infrastructure right now. The systems built in 2025 and 2026 will define how Costa Rican institutions operate for the next decade.

We exist to be part of that construction — not to wait for it. Local, bilingual, operated by someone who understands SINPE, La Gaceta, and SUGEF as operating realities, not as exotic references.

Capabilities

Civic infrastructure and readable intelligence.

Engagements conducted under NDA when required. Procurement-ready documentation available — we understand public-sector cycles and work within them.

Public civic dashboards

Government data converted into surfaces legible to citizens, press, and decision-makers. Not a data warehouse — a readable instrument.

Transparency systems

Searchable, dated, maintained public registers. Transparency as infrastructure, not a gesture toward compliance.

Regulatory intelligence

Automated surveillance of La Gaceta and SUGEF/SUGEVAL rulings — directed alerts by sector, in plain language.

Investigative atlases

Thematic collections maintained over time — one URL, indefinite lifespan, structured for navigation. Atlas Criminalidad CR is the live example.

Briefings & whitepapers

Executive briefings and technical whitepapers that turn dispersed data into a 15-minute read decision-makers can act on.

Data visualization & territorial analysis

Spatial data, statistics, and interactive charts applied to urban planning, risk, and public accountability — embeddable and citable.

Live work

Shipped. Public. Running.

Observatorio Municipal CR

Active · 2025

82 municipalities. A unified performance-indicator dashboard for local governments — government data made legible to citizens, press, and decision-makers.

Atlas Criminalidad CR

Live · Open · 2025

OIJ crime incidence data — geographic and temporal — published but buried in PDFs, converted into a public atlas readable by any citizen in under 5 minutes.

Pricing

Project-based and retainer pricing, procurement-ready.

Engagements from $2,500. Retainers from $1,200/mo. Documentation available for public-sector procurement.

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Working on something that belongs in the public record?

Describe the institution and the problem. We respond within 24 hours.