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Standard Bureau is a small operations, software, and AI firm. We work in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and Washington, DC, and with clients anywhere.

The partners
Clay Johnson

Clay Johnson

Product and delivery

Clay has built software for nearly thirty years. He was lead programmer on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, co-founded Blue State Digital, and ran Sunlight Labs, where about 2,000 volunteers built tools on public data.

He wrote The Information Diet and served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. At Standard Bureau he designs and builds the systems clients run on. He also leads Core Values Recovery, a recovery coaching company.

Dave Liloia

Dave Liloia

Clients

Dave is a product person who loves talking to people. He spent five years leading product at ConsumerAffairs, where he grew the review library from 4 million to 8 million reviews and built the tools brands use to answer reviews and settle complaints.

At Standard Bureau, Dave leads client relationships. If you book a call, you'll probably talk to him first. He grew up in Belleville, New Jersey.

How we work

How a project runs.

01 · Talk

A free call

Forty-five minutes. Tell us where the work gets stuck. We'll tell you if we can help.

02 · Look

An assessment

We interview your people and map how the work moves. You get a ranked list of fixes.

03 · Fix

Build

Agents draft, people review, and nothing goes live without your team's yes.

04 · Stay

Run

We train your team, watch for errors, and keep it running.

Our terms

What we put in writing.

Every agent needs a human. These rules hold on every project.

  • 01
    Nothing touches your live system until someone on your team says yes.
  • 02
    We build next to your old software and leave it running.
  • 03
    Fixed scope and a written price. Half up front, half on delivery.
  • 04
    If you don't need us, or don't need AI, we'll say so.

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