Software thatadapts toyour work.

On time and under budget should be the minimum you expect. We build custom software for government and enterprise, weaving new features into the existing scope as your needs evolve.

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South Dakota Legislature public portal with committee schedules, bills, laws, and legislative resources — Two years planned. Delivered in one.

Bill drafting in year one. The Legislature's public website in year two.

Financial software Timekeeping, payroll, tax mapping, and ACH tools Accessibility software Web and document audits, review, and reporting GIS engineering Mapping, parcel geometry, and published benchmarks

The work behind the results.

We build payroll and tax applications, accessibility software, legislative systems, and GIS. These are some of the projects we can share publicly.

South Dakota legislative systems.

Government operations · South Dakota · Since 2018

Two years planned. Bill drafting delivered in one. South Dakota LRC planned two years for its bill drafting system. North Dakota recommended allowing three. We delivered the system in the first year and used the second to build the Legislature's public website.

When COVID-19 required remote voting, we built the system in about two weeks. LRC later chose to keep it when a commercial alternative was offered. Read the remote voting story.

Read the LRC case study

Public legislative portal showing committee meetings and access to bills, codified laws, and legislative data — South Dakota Legislature · Public interfaceSeptember 2026

Budget & fiscal analysis

Fiscal staff use connected tools to analyze agency funding, revenue, and spending, compare budget scenarios, and prepare the documents used in funding decisions.

Agency dataFiscal scenariosDecision documents

Budget analysis and reporting

Our budget engineering connects historical data, supplemental plans, budget briefs, and Excel reporting. Analysts can examine funding and vendor history, develop scenarios, and prepare motion sheets for review and approval.

Explore the fiscal workflow

Word & document engineering

Legislative drafting inside Microsoft Word, with structured amendments, review routing, version history, and publication tools for legal staff.

Structured draftReviewPublished record

Drafting and document automation

Our document engineering connects Word-based drafting with structured legislative data and public records. Custom ribbon tools, OpenXML, and PDF processing support amendments, engrossing, and publication.

Explore the drafting workflow

Payroll, tax mapping, and ACH tools.

Our work for ByteWish Foundation connects the details behind everyday financial operations: hours worked, payroll calculations, tax jurisdictions, and bank files.

From timekeeping to payroll.

Time tracking, PTO, payroll calculations, paystubs, and client invoicing belong in the same workflow. We built connected applications that carry those records through to financial documents and payroll NACHA output.

Explore our ByteWish work

Sales Tax Map showing loaded jurisdiction boundaries and its address lookup panel — ByteWish Foundation · Sales Tax Map

Tax rates tied to the right place and date.

The Sales Tax Map combines address and map lookup with date-aware jurisdiction data. Bulk sales-file workflows bring that same geographic detail to larger sets of transactions, using our Sundial mapping engine.

Explore the Sales Tax Map

ACH Toolkit showing three synthetic sample payees, batch totals, and a decoded file preview with reconciled control totals — ByteWish Foundation · ACH Toolkit · Built-in sample data

See what is inside a bank file.

The ACH Toolkit reads, validates, merges, and builds NACHA files in the browser. Staff can inspect individual entries, check totals, and review the decoded file before downloading the output. Files stay in the browser.

Try the ACH Toolkit

Find the issue. Follow it through.

Developing Today Accessibility brings website and document audits, manual review, findings, and reporting into one place.

Reviewers can investigate a finding, keep its evidence with the affected page, and track its status. Manual checklists keep the questions that need human judgment alongside the automated results.

Reports turn that work into an executive summary, criteria scorecard, detailed findings, and a remediation roadmap. Teams can print or save the report as a PDF and export supporting records as CSV.

See the accessibility platform in action

Developing Today Accessibility report cover with WCAG 2.2 assessment summary and print or save PDF controls; demonstration data — Published product report · Demonstration data

See how findings stay connected to the work

Page-level findings show the issue, criterion, and review status together. Teams can move from a scan to the evidence and keep track of what still needs attention.

Accessibility findings list with review statuses, criteria, and affected pages; demonstration data — Published findings screen · Demonstration data

Put our GIS engineering to the test.

Sundial ranks first overall in our published comparison of seven mapping libraries, including ArcGIS, Google Maps, and MapLibre. The workload includes real parcels, addresses, and roads, with performance and geodesic accuracy measured together.

See how the engines handle large maps and precise geometry. Inspect the raw measurements, read the methodology, or run the benchmark on your own hardware.

Compare GIS results Read the methodology

GIS benchmark standings: Sundial 100, ArcGIS 66, Google Maps 43 overall. Sundial is identified as Developing Today's own entry. — Our published baseline · September 2, 2026.
Overall scores combine performance and accuracy across seven libraries.

Planning your county's next system?

Explore our relevant experience and property-tax software work in progress.

For county government

Built for demanding work.

Your organization shouldn't have to work around its software. We build the applications, integrations, and tools that help your staff get more done and deliver better services.

Government & enterprise systems

Give staff, decision-makers, and the public the tools they need to do their part. We build applications with permissions, approvals, self-service, and public information built in.

Legislative experience

Document automation

Turn the work your staff do in Word into structured documents, review workflows, and finished PDFs. Keep drafts, revisions, and published versions connected.

Word engineering

Data & financial workflows

Bring financial history, calculations, and reporting into the same system. Our work includes fiscal scenarios, budget briefs, Excel exports, payroll, and invoicing.

Budget & analysis

Geospatial engineering

Sundial ranks first overall in our September 2026 benchmark of seven mapping libraries. Inspect performance and accuracy results on real GIS workloads.

Compare GIS results

Accessibility tooling

Find issues in websites and documents, review them with your team, and track the work of fixing them. Our tools combine automated scans, manual checklists, and practical reports.

Accessibility platform

Modernization & maintenance

Improve the systems you rely on and preserve the information they hold. We handle data conversion, integrations, and ongoing development as your needs change.

Our delivery approach

On time. Under budget. Built to adapt.

You should see useful software early and continued progress as your needs change. We work with your team to weave new features into the existing scope while delivering on time and under budget.

Our process fits your team. We keep the conversations practical and the plan flexible, so useful ideas can become part of the system as we go.

Work with your team.

We stay close to the people using the software. Regular conversations help us understand what works, what needs to change, and what would make the biggest difference.
Share working software.

We put working software in front of you early. Your feedback guides what we improve and what we build next.
Make room for new features.

Useful ideas emerge once people start using a system. We adapt the plan and add features as we learn what will help your team.
Deliver on time and under budget.

We keep delivery on schedule as priorities evolve, weaving useful new features into the existing scope.

For South Dakota LRC, delivering bill drafting a year early gave us year two to build the public website.

From existing systems to everyday use.

A system should get more valuable as you use it. We bring your data over, connect your applications, and keep improving the software with your team. We stay with the work after it goes live.

For South Dakota LRC, we brought in records dating to Dakota Territory that were missing from the system we replaced. Preserving that history was part of the work.

Ownership, support, and procurement

Data conversion is included.: We believe in preserving your data. We never charge extra for conversion, including older records, regardless of how many years of history you bring forward.
Your software and data stay yours.: You own the source code and data. We earn your continued business through the quality of our work. Full end-user data exports and full-featured OpenAPI specifications are standard in our systems.
Support around the clock.: 24/7 support, full point-in-time backups in Azure, and full access controls support your day-to-day operations. Your assigned emergency support contact is available on holidays too.

Want uptime like this?

Your staff and the public depend on your systems. Let's bring the same focus on reliability to the services they use every day.

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100%

monitored availability
since April 2022

Verified period: April 22, 2022 to September 28, 2026

Public endpoint availability reported by Better Stack during the verified period
www.developingtoday.net	100%
sdlegislature.gov	100%

Better Stack recorded zero downtime and zero incidents during this period. Current checks run every 10 minutes. SDLegislature.gov is client-hosted following our engineering recommendations. View service status.

What does your vendor validate?

Your software has to get the work right, protect your data, and keep working when people depend on it. That takes checks of business rules, integrations, permissions, and failure handling alongside performance and accessibility. The published tests of this website are one example of that work.

See what we validate

The work your staff actually does.: Calculations, records, documents, and connected systems all need to agree. Our ByteWish work includes IRS schema validation, submission, and acknowledgement handling. See the filing workflow.
The boundaries that protect your data.: This site's automated tests exercise authentication, conversation isolation, retries, and signed staff actions. Inspect the release checks.
The experience people depend on.: Every page scores 100 in all four Lighthouse categories. axe, IBM Equal Access, and browser tests check accessibility, keyboard use, mobile layouts, and operation without JavaScript.

The standards behind your RFP.

Framework	Web accessibility benchmark
Developing Today Our development target	WCAG 2.2 AA + AAA wherever possible AA as the baseline. AAA as the highest level we pursue.
Section 508 U.S. federal agencies	WCAG 2.0 AA
ADA Title II U.S. state and local governments	WCAG 2.1 AA
EU Web Accessibility Directive European public-sector bodies	WCAG 2.1 AA + additional requirements EN 301 549 v3.2.1 also covers areas such as documents and support.

WCAG 2.2 goes further on keyboard focus, controls that are easier to tap, and accessible sign-in. Those improvements help people use your services every day.

Expect more from your software company.

Developing Today builds and supports government and enterprise software. We take responsibility for the whole system, from data conversion and integrations to secure operation and ongoing improvement.

Working software early. Useful features as your needs change. Your history preserved and your team supported, including on holidays. That's how we work.

We're a veteran-owned South Dakota company working across legislative operations, financial software, document automation, accessibility, and GIS. Bring us the difficult work.

Nationally recognized tax software.

Our founder, Jordan Block, developed South Dakota's Special Events Sales Tax application, winner of the 2017 FTA Award for Outstanding Technology Applications and a 2017 NASCIO nominee for Improving State Operations.

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