Your CIP Program
Elevate Your CIP Program
CIP Builder provides many benefits for cities and agencies over messy spreadsheets & documents
for developing, tracking and reporting on their CIP Programs
“Agencies that sign-up to use CIP Builder get a stress-free, user-friendly system to support their CIP application process, allowing their management team to focus on more productive and fun tasks such as strategic planning & analysis. The result is usually a better CIP and Budget.”
Custom Web-Based Forms
CIP Builder’s web-based forms simplify data input, provide context to applications and support decision making.
Informative Dashboards
Role-specific dashboards provide overviews & insights into the CIP application process and promote organizational awareness.
Powerful Reporting
Built-in & custom reports enable management to monitor the proposed CIP budget during the application period and recommend adjustments early-on, thus avoiding wasted time and resources.
Engaging Charts & Graphs
Visually engaging charts & graphs provide actionable insights into developing budget trends and help communicate performance regarding community & organization goals.
Powerful Charts & Graphs
Gain actionable insights into developing budget trends with visually engaging charts & graphs that are designed to communicate detailed financial data in an easy-to-understand format.
Ensure Alignment with Community Goals
Monitor your developing CIP program to ensure alignment with community & organization goals, and gain the appreciation of your Council or Board members by providing timely updates on matters of vital importance to them.
Identify & Communicate Long-Term Trends
Once sufficient data is archived in the system, year-over-year and longer-term trends can be surfaced to guide future policy, budgeting, and operational decisions.
GIS & Web Mapping
Engage your audience, both internal and external, with delightful GIS-based Story Maps of your proposed CIP program.
Content & Data Syndication
Boost public engagement for important but traditionally low visibility initiatives such as CIP planning & budgeting by syndicating your content and data to multiple websites and platforms
Data syndication, the act of publishing the same database on many websites, is generally used for one or more of the following reasons:
- Monetizing data assets.
- Generating traffic to your website.
- Creating brand awareness.
- Maximizing accessibility of your data.
Cities and public entities are typically interested in the latter: with maximizing accessibility to data, while their content syndication partners would be interested in the former: monetizing data assets and generating “sticky” traffic to their website. This creates an opportunity for a win-win situation for both the public entity and their content syndication partners, who also benefit socially by supporting a public cause.
With CIP Builder, your syndicated data can appear on any website such as the local Chamber of Commerce or portal such as the local newspaper, in an attractive, easy-to-use web interface. All syndications use the same database, making data updates across multiple websites easy and efficient. All your partners’ need to do to embed your data on their website is to copy-and-paste a small segment of code that CIP Builder provides.
Using CIP Builder’s powerful platform, your syndicated database can contain not only text and numbers, but also images and files. You can include ad-hoc searches, data drill-downs, and even syndicated submission forms.
Industry-leading Technologies
Enjoy peace of mind knowing that our software is built using industry-leading technologies
The new web-based software program [CIP Builder] radically changed the way we budget CIPs, review applications, and generate reports, for which many in the organization are very grateful!
City of Santa Monica, CA
As the former Public Works Director for the cities of Hermosa Beach and San Juan Capistrano, I certainly believe there is a need for a product like CIP Builder to simplify & enhance the CIP development process in many cities.
A brief visual tour of CIP Builder
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Sign-in Page
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My CIP Applications Dashboard
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Custom CIP Application Form - City of Santa Monica
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Built-in Summary Report with Drill-down Capabilities
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Informative Charts & Graphs Summarizing CIP Applications under Development
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Delightful GIS-based Story Map of the Proposed CIP Program
CIP Builder Pricing Plans
We have a plan that is appropriate and affordable for cities and agencies of any size!
- This is our basic plan that includes the following:
- Standard CIP Application Form
- Standard Dashboards
- Basic Online Reporting
- Unlimited User Accounts
- Administration Section
- This is our most affordable plan, making it possible for any City or public agency to implement CIP Builder and begin reaping the benefits of this modern, powerful, user-friendly system to develop their CIP plan and budget. It can be easily upgraded to the Intermediate or Advanced plan at any time.
- Includes all the features of the Basic and Intermediate Plans plus the following powerful capabilities:
- Enhanced Graphing & Reporting (Tableau-based)
- GIS-based Story Map of proposed CIP
- "State of the CIP" mobile app for public access
- Data Syndication to boost public engagement
- Link to enterprise data (based on API availability from data-provider)
- This is our most popular plan because it includes powerful, user-friendly features that most constituents would like to see from their government officials, thereby greatly enhancing a city's or agency's public reputation.
- Our Intermediate Plan includes all the features under the Basic Plan plus the following:
- Custom CIP Application Form
- Custom Developed Dashboards
- Custom Online Reports (5 max).
- MS Excel Compatible Downloadable Data
- Initial Consultation Meeting
- Full Onboarding Assistance
- Cities and agencies typically choose the Intermediate Plan if they know they need additional or custom dashboards and reports but are not sure if they require the features under the Advanced Plan. It can be upgraded to the Advanced Plan at any time.