Scope: client-engagement. Emil Barr’s GovGrid business decision, made with Michael in the room. Not a Rye Valley decision; do not roll into Rye Valley decision logs or scoreboards.
- Date: 2026-10-15
- Decider(s): Emil Barr and Michael Houck (GovGrid side), on Will’s proposal
- Status: decided
Decision
GovGrid runs both collection strategies at once: continue deep per-agency requests, and quickly pull a wider, shallower batch across 30+ state agencies (tax workflows and processes). Packaging and sales of a composite multi-state product wait until the wide batch is assessed for whether each state has enough depth to reconstruct its workflows.
Context
Meeting. Agencies push back hard as request volume grows (thousands of emails get a conversation, millions get refused), so exhaustive single-agency pulls are getting combative. Will proposed going wide. Broker calls indicate the value is in reconstructing workflows and processes, which sets the depth bar per state.
Options considered
- Deep only (example: all of the Ohio tax agency): highest context value per buyer, but increasingly blocked by agencies.
- Wide only: much easier to acquire, but unproven whether per-state depth is enough to be valuable.
- Both in parallel (chosen): cheap to test wide, keeps the deep path alive.
Consequences
- Will to be told the composite approach has support (Michael).
- After the wide batch lands, assess how many of the 30+ states have usable depth; that drives whether a composite product gets packaged and sold. Builds on scoped pilot before any exclusivity.