Right-Sized Public Tech
How Right-Sized Public Tech selects sources, separates guidance from sales, handles corrections, protects consent, and approaches accessibility.
Source standard
Factual guidance must trace to a current official source that has authority for the statement, such as a regulation, government standard, official audit, official program guide, or agency publication. A news story, vendor page, search result, or summary may help locate a source, but it does not support a published factual assertion here.
Every factual resource names the source and a last-verified date. If a source cannot be reached or its current status is unclear, we remove or qualify the assertion. An absence of evidence is not treated as proof.
Jurisdiction-specific thresholds, purchasing routes, legal duties, and program requirements are not generalized. Readers are told to verify them with the responsible local officials and current official materials.
Review and versioning
JS Technology Solutions, Inc. owns editorial responsibility. A substantive guide receives a source review and a cross-functional review covering the operational, procurement or finance, and technology or security perspectives that apply. A page names an external practitioner reviewer only with that person’s permission. The absence of a named external reviewer means no external review is claimed.
The public practitioner review record shows the current status, review method, editable packet, reviewer perspectives, completed-review count, and attribution boundary. It currently states that external review is prepared but not started.
Each substantive guide carries a publication or verification date. Material changes to recommendations, sources, decision steps, disclosures, or risk boundaries require a new modified date and a plain-language revision note. Formatting fixes do not create a new substantive version.
We do not describe publication, review, or contribution as government approval, certification, affiliation, or endorsement.
Editorial policy
We begin with the public team’s problem, current process, existing systems, constraints, users, data, approvals, and decision. Software is one possible response, not the default recommendation.
Tools must remain usable without an email address. Guidance does not promise savings, compliance, legal authority, customer outcomes, certifications, affiliations, or endorsements that have not been verified. We do not help shape a solicitation on which JS Technology Solutions may bid. General resources stay public and available on equal terms.
Each substantive review checks the operational-owner, finance or procurement, and IT or security perspectives. K-12 guidance also considers student privacy, accessibility, continuity, and limited staff capacity.
Corrections policy
Send a correction to jserle@jstech-inc.com with the page, statement, and official source. Do not include confidential procurement, student, personnel, resident, vendor, security, or incident information.
We review the cited official source, correct material errors promptly, update the verification date, and note a material correction on the affected page or in the source record. Minor spelling and formatting fixes may be made without a public note.
No material corrections have been recorded as of August 26, 2026.
Contributions
Public employees, auditors, researchers, advocates, and other practitioners may suggest a source, identify an operational gap, or volunteer to review a draft. A contribution does not guarantee publication, attribution, or an ongoing role.
Contributors must disclose relevant employment, vendor, client, funding, and procurement interests. We ask permission before publishing a person’s name, organization, or comments. We do not publish confidential or procurement-sensitive material.
Practitioners may use the editable review packet to test the AI procurement guide and worked example. The packet is ungated and does not submit data.
To propose a contribution, email jserle@jstech-inc.com with the resource, intended audience, and the operational decision it would help. Do not attach protected records or nonpublic procurement material.
Commercial disclosure
JS Technology Solutions, Inc. is the publisher of Right-Sized Public Tech and is also a software vendor. It offers RouteLedger and is exploring bounded pilots for GrantDesk, PortfolioDesk, and PermitDesk.
RouteLedger has a working demonstration. GrantDesk, PortfolioDesk, and PermitDesk are proposed pilot offerings, not finished working products. A related JSTK option appears only after the neutral field kit, inside a visually separate disclosure that states when it fits and when it does not.
The AI procurement scoping guide does not present a related JSTK product.
No payment, sponsorship, affiliate arrangement, customer status, government affiliation, or endorsement influences the source selection.
Accessibility statement
We target WCAG 2.2 Level AA in design, implementation, and testing. This statement is not a claim of certified or complete conformance.
The field guide supports keyboard use, visible focus, semantic headings and form labels, reduced motion, responsive layouts, live status messages, and printable worksheets. We test common browser flows, zoom, contrast, and mobile behavior, then correct issues we can reproduce.
Report an accessibility barrier to jserle@jstech-inc.com. Include the page, task, browser or assistive technology if known, and the format you need. Do not include protected or confidential information.
Consent and data use
Problem feedback, resource-update consent, and a scoping request are separate. Submitting one never checks, enrolls, or submits another. We do not add advertising identifiers, booking identifiers, lead enrichment, scraped identities, retargeting, or automatic marketing enrollment.
Source register
All sources below were directly checked on August 26, 2026.
Office of Management and Budget. April 3, 2025.
Cross-functional acquisition teams, competition, testing, performance monitoring, pricing transparency, data rights, portability, privacy, and protection against vendor lock-in.
U.S. Government Accountability Office. April 13, 2026.
Current acquisition challenges, contract considerations, performance oversight, and systematic collection of lessons learned.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. AI RMF 1.0 with current NIST resource updates.
Voluntary risk management across Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage, including trustworthiness considerations throughout the AI life cycle.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. July 26, 2024.
Generative AI risks and suggested actions involving content provenance, information integrity, privacy, security, evaluation, and human oversight.
U.S. General Services Administration. Living public guide.
Problem selection, organizational readiness, integrated teams, buy-versus-build decisions, testing, data rights, sustainable capability, and lessons learned.
National Association of State Procurement Officials. 2024 edition.
A state and local procurement life-cycle frame. Access to the complete publication may require purchase.
U.S. DOGE Service. Current public edition.
User needs, iterative delivery, accountable ownership, security and privacy, and decision-linked measurement.
U.S. Government Accountability Office. Effective fiscal year 2026.
Risk-based control activities, quality information, documentation, review, and separation of key duties.
New York State Office of the State Comptroller. Official local-government management guide.
Reviewing claims for authority, mathematical accuracy, supporting documentation, and evidence that goods or services were received.
Office of the New York City Comptroller. December 17, 2025.
Using available route, GPS, complaint, and performance evidence to oversee contracted transportation service.
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. Current eCFR text.
Subaward information, risk evaluation, monitoring, follow-up, and access to records for federal awards.
Office of Management and Budget. November 2025.
Current federal program compliance requirements and audit objectives that may apply in addition to the general Uniform Guidance.
Office of Management and Budget. Supplement to OMB Circular A-11, 2025.
Disciplined portfolio planning, prioritization, life-cycle cost, risk, acquisition, and performance management.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. January 2023.
K-12 priorities including leadership ownership, multifactor authentication, patching, tested backups, incident response exercises, and training.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. August 2023.
Security questions and secure-by-design considerations for K-12 technology purchasing.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. February 26, 2024.
A non-prescriptive set of outcomes across Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.
U.S. Department of Education Student Privacy Policy Office. Current resource hub.
Safeguarding student records, data security, data flows, retention, destruction, and online-service considerations.