Help Fund the Community Owned Emergency Response System (Crowdfunding and Grantwriting)

In December 2025, The New York Times and others published reports private equity group Vista Equity Partners has nearly cornered the market on emergency response software in the United States. The report described a rural volunteer fire department with a small tax base being charged seven times more once the new company, ESO Solutions took over. At NTARI we identify this as a form of technofeudalism, just the sort of thing our Municipal Counter Automation Strategy is designed to combat. We're developing an open-source version of the software for fire departments everywhere.

Our research and development teams have all the resources they need to develop the software, but fire departments may not have resident servers to self-host the software when finished. Without local ardware, fire departments and taxpayers will still be subject to renting from data farms. We'd like to give away small form factor servers to each fire department that adopts this free software. We're looking for care teams to promote and interact with server crowdfunders on the following platforms:

• GoFundMe
• Kickstarter
• Patreon
• Givebutter
• Indiegogo

Additionally, grant funding may be available for this effort:

• Cade Moore Foundation
• Knight Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• MacArthur Foundation
• Yield Giving