Notes from building in the open.
Occasional writing on stewardship, nonprofit operations, and what we are learning as we build and ship the ventures in the Talanton portfolio.
Ship, don't bury: why we build before we are ready.
The servant who buried his talent was not lazy. He was careful. We think there is a quiet cost to caution that no one puts on a balance sheet, and a discipline that comes from treating resources as entrusted.
Read the note →Who actually keeps a nonprofit running?
Development gets the spotlight and the budget. The people managing finance, HR, and systems get a spreadsheet and a prayer. A case for building tools for them.
What the 990 already tells you about pay.
Every exempt organization files compensation data into the public record each year. Most benchmarking ignores it in favor of thin surveys. We did the opposite.
Why a holding company instead of one product.
Entrusted expertise does not map to a single market. A portfolio lets each venture start from genuine insight, and lets the next one begin before the last is finished.
Faith-informed, built for everyone.
Where our values come from is specific. Who our products serve is not. On building openly from conviction without putting a fish on the logo.
Welcome to Talanton Digital
Every company has an origin story. Ours starts with an ancient parable and a conviction that would not go away.