Company

TUC listens before it builds a public-service application.

TUC works with public-service organizations on related needs in health, wealth, knowledge, and access.

A plant-covered rock formation rises above a green landscape. — Editorial illustration · not event documentationPartner-led public-service work

Why TUC expanded

TUC expanded from banking to related public-service needs.

An editorial Detroit kitchen scene with medicine, a clock, a transit map, and household bills. — TUC / Related public-service needsDetroit / Time · Health · Transit · Cost

TUC began as Obsidian, which focused on banking. TUC now works with people and public-service organizations to explain how health, time, money, information, and access are related.

HealthWealthKnowledgeAccess

The work in context

Black measurement forms emerge from deep shadow.

A field instrument measures local conditions.

Our commitments

TUC’s commitments.

Our founding practice

The founders combine lived experience and approved information to guide TUC’s public-service work.

Our partners

TUC listens before it builds a public-service application.

TUC expanded from banking to related public-service needs.

The work in context

TUC’s commitments.

The founders combine lived experience and approved information to guide TUC’s public-service work.

TUC works with organizations that explain public decisions and show the approved information behind them.

Work with TUC on one clearly defined public-service need.

TUC listens before it builds a public-service application.

TUC expanded from banking to related public-service needs.

The work in context

01Protect privacy to support trust.+

02Review shared context before giving advice.+

03People need information they can use.+

04Build with people that conventional systems often exclude.+

05Plan for time, feedback, and partnership.+

TUC works with organizations that explain public decisions and show the approved information behind them.

Work with TUC on one clearly defined public-service need.