Government teams brought broken processes. They left with solutions.

On August 27, 2026, Zite and MetroIQ hosted the San Francisco Build Summit at Convene, a block from Union Square. It was the second build day of the year, after the Capital Region AI Summit in upstate New York.

The ask for attendees was simple: bring a laptop and a process that isn't working. Seats were capped at 25 so every builder had help within arm's reach. Teams came from the City & County of San Francisco, the County of Santa Clara, Solano County, and the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair, and people flew in from as far as Boston and Arizona.

The schedule left most of the day for building: a walkthrough at 10, two build sessions around lunch, and show and tell at 2:30.

The morning keynote came from Anna Sherr, Assistant Deputy Director for Grants Management in the City of Boston's Office of Workforce Development. Her office oversees more than $20 million in grants a year across about 150 community-based organizations.

Anna walked the room through the grants management system she led on Zite, which replaced a 25-year-old system and cut the administrative work for the city and its grantees. The city estimates it saves about $2 million a year. She built it without writing code, which made it the most relevant demo of the day for a room of people without engineering teams.

Ravi Udeshi, Assistant Registrar of Voters for the County of Santa Clara, already knew Zite from his time running elections in Fairfax County. At show and tell he put up a Vote Center Tracker: a grid of the county's vote centers, each tile colored by status, from polls open to couriers arrived to polls closed.

His colleague Paulo Chang, Election Division Coordinator, came with a list of his own: scheduling election officers into training classes, scheduling part-time staff, managing outreach events, and tracking training equipment.

Stacy Olson, Director of the Arizona Law Enforcement Accreditation Program, flew in from Arizona. Agencies across the state go through her program to earn and keep accreditation.

Her goal was an accreditation platform where agencies manage enrollment and compliance in one place, without breaking the bank, tied directly to the program's own management app. At show and tell she demoed it: assessor and director portals, a report builder, and commission meetings that generate their agenda, full packet, and minutes as PDFs.

Solano County sent people from IT and administration. Contracts, purchase orders, onboarding, and IT procurement were spread across separate tools, and most of the department could only touch that data through forms. They came to see whether Zite could be the one place for all of it, with permissions that let more of the department work in the data directly.

Christiana Dominguez runs the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair, which already runs its forms on Fillout. She came to see how much of the fair's operations could move to Zite, and to start on dashboards for students, judges, and review committees.

The largest group came from the City & County of San Francisco's Digital Services team, who already build with Zite and Fillout across city departments. They spent the day on learning systems and on connecting Zite to the city's existing data, and on how their team can support other departments that want to build their own tools.

The next build summit is in Prescott, Arizona, on November 12 and 13, hosted with the Arizona Law Enforcement Accreditation Program for law enforcement and public-sector agencies across the state.

The format stays the same everywhere: a room of peers, a platform that turns a description into working software, and people who have already shipped showing what they built. If you want a build day for your city, county, or agency, talk to our team.