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A real relationship. A visible Colorado opportunity.

Help stac turn repeated client work into products.

Keith and Davis know each other from college. Davis now leads Product & Client Solutions at stac after six years across program and product roles. He sits where state-party needs become product, service, and delivery decisions, which makes this a warm conversation about helping his team ship.

Why Colorado makes the opportunity tangible

stac already supports a live state-specific product and a separate service workflow here. Black Flag can help improve the products, connect the handoffs, strengthen the operating layer, and turn the repeated work underneath them into reusable systems.

What stac is already running in Colorado

Two live surfaces show both the product and the service operation around it. These are direct links, not concept mockups.

Screenshot of the live DemLaunch product for the Colorado Democratic Party Live Colorado product

DemLaunch

Candidate and organization onboarding for VoteBuilder and party-approved tools, presented as a Colorado Democratic Party experience.

Open DemLaunch Colorado ↗ Screenshot of the live Colorado Democratic Party support portal managed by stac labs Live Colorado operation

Colorado support workflow

VAN support, access, and data requests. New committee requests are explicitly routed from this portal into DemLaunch.

Open Colorado support ↗
× Black Flag Design

A warm path into a live Colorado service journey.

Keith's college relationship with Davis opens a grounded conversation about helping stac improve products, connect service handoffs, and ship the systems underneath repeated client work.

Davis Manoushagian
College connection

Davis Manoushagian

Director of Product & Client Solutions at stac labs

LinkedIn profile ↗
DemLaunch Colorado screenshotLive Colorado productDemLaunch ↗ Colorado support portal screenshotLive service operationColorado support ↗
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Recommended relationship

A product and delivery partner for the full service model.

stac already has the domain expertise, trusted state relationships, products, data programs, training, and vendor network. Black Flag can sit beside that team and turn recurring needs into reliable systems, without asking stac to hand over the relationships or choose a giant platform first.

Start with one real backlog and one shipped slice

Map the work across one state or service line, choose the highest-leverage repeatable problem, and take it from discovery through production. The first engagement proves how we work together and reveals the right longer-term roadmap.

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Embedded product and delivery pod

Pair product strategy, service design, engineering, and delivery with stac's Product and Client Solutions team. Own complete slices of the backlog while stac keeps client judgment and relationships.

Black Flag role: discovery to production
02

Existing-product acceleration

Improve DemLaunch, Progress Wiki, and internal tools through focused UX, feature, integration, and release work. Strengthen what stac already owns instead of forcing a replacement.

Black Flag role: product, UX, full-stack build
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Reusable data systems

Turn repeated integration, warehouse, reporting, data-quality, and visualization work into reusable components and state-ready templates that Data Technologists can adapt.

Black Flag role: data products and integrations
04

AI-enabled service delivery

Use human-reviewed AI for intake, issue triage, documentation, knowledge retrieval, training support, and routine analysis. Automate the preparation around expert judgment, not the judgment itself.

Black Flag role: applied AI with human control
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Service operations and workflow

Connect the campaign, state party, vendor, DemLaunch, Jira, wiki, and data handoffs that already exist. Give each service request an owner, next action, and measurable outcome.

Black Flag role: workflow design and automation
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Production confidence

Add the testing, observability, accessibility, security, release, and documentation practices that let a small team ship faster through campaign-cycle pressure and hand work back cleanly.

Black Flag role: reliability and durable handoff

Why this map is grounded

Public evidence shows a small, growing team delivering data programs, tools built in-house, training, pooled purchasing, campaign support, and relationship-heavy client work. It also shows active surfaces in DemLaunch, Progress Wiki, and Jira. The specific backlog, bottlenecks, architecture, and priorities still need discovery.

stac services Progress Wiki 2026 Data Technologist role Software Engineer role Public service workflows DemLaunch in use

Stakeholders

Who are the people or groups affected by this situation?

Jobs to accomplish

What are the stakeholders trying to accomplish?

Desired outcomes

What would success look like?

Current reality

Gaps

What are the pains, frictions, failures, or gaps?

Bright spots

What is currently working well?

Success metrics

How will we know we've succeeded?

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