Deck 36 Systems and Solutions, LLC

“Deck 36 is a local technology studio in Clinton, IL. We help counties and nonprofits build, secure, and maintain their IT systems—on demand.”

For towns, nonprofits, and creators shaping the future, we build digital infrastructure that unlocks capacity, restores clarity, and evolves with you.

Why Our Systems Work

Principle-Driven Design

Every system starts with cognitive clarity and civic logic. We don’t just build tools—we encode your values into infrastructure.

Principle-Driven Design

Every system starts with cognitive clarity and civic logic. We don’t just build tools—we encode your values into infrastructure.

Principle-Driven Design

Every system starts with cognitive clarity and civic logic. We don’t just build tools—we encode your values into infrastructure.

Built for Iteration

Our systems are made to grow with you. No brittle software. No vendor lock-in. Just frameworks that flex as you evolve.

Built for Iteration

Our systems are made to grow with you. No brittle software. No vendor lock-in. Just frameworks that flex as you evolve.

Built for Iteration

Our systems are made to grow with you. No brittle software. No vendor lock-in. Just frameworks that flex as you evolve.

Hands-on & Human

We work like a craft studio, not a faceless firm. You’ll know who’s building what—and why every decision makes sense.

Hands-on & Human

We work like a craft studio, not a faceless firm. You’ll know who’s building what—and why every decision makes sense.

Hands-on & Human

We work like a craft studio, not a faceless firm. You’ll know who’s building what—and why every decision makes sense.

Our products

From guided journaling to full civic platforms, these tools are built to help people design their own clarity and structure.
Some are philosophical. Some are digital. All are made to evolve—recursively designed to be used, reused, and grown.

What Sets Us Apart

We don’t just build tools—we build systems that grow with you.
At Deck 36, we fuse product design, systems thinking, and civic empathy to turn your mission into living, evolving infrastructure.
This isn’t gig work. It’s groundwork.

Built Across Worlds

From Walmart to Wolfram, from grassroots nonprofits to civic pilots—we’ve worked every layer of the stack.

Built Across Worlds

From Walmart to Wolfram, from grassroots nonprofits to civic pilots—we’ve worked every layer of the stack.

Built Across Worlds

From Walmart to Wolfram, from grassroots nonprofits to civic pilots—we’ve worked every layer of the stack.

Rooted in Mission, Not Hype

We partner with towns, teachers, nonprofits, and organizers—not unicorn chasers. Our systems are stable, reusable, and community-owned.

Rooted in Mission, Not Hype

We partner with towns, teachers, nonprofits, and organizers—not unicorn chasers. Our systems are stable, reusable, and community-owned.

Rooted in Mission, Not Hype

We partner with towns, teachers, nonprofits, and organizers—not unicorn chasers. Our systems are stable, reusable, and community-owned.

Reusable by Design

We don’t ship brittle code. Every tool we build is recursive—meant to evolve, meant to be reused, meant to outlast us.

Reusable by Design

We don’t ship brittle code. Every tool we build is recursive—meant to evolve, meant to be reused, meant to outlast us.

Reusable by Design

We don’t ship brittle code. Every tool we build is recursive—meant to evolve, meant to be reused, meant to outlast us.

Your questions, answered

Whether you're a new client or a long-time partner, we're here to help. Below are answers to the most common questions.

What exactly do you build?

We build sociotechnical systems—custom digital tools and civic infrastructure that grow with people, not in spite of them. That includes: websites, mutual aid platforms, journaling frameworks, feedback portals, and story-driven publishing systems. Every tool is modular, purposeful, and alive.

What exactly do you build?

How do I know if we’re a good fit?

How long does a project take?

What does it cost to work with you?

Can you work with my existing platform/brand/team?

Will I need to know code?

What if I don’t know where to start?

Do you offer consulting or speaking engagements?

Only 1 opening left for Q3

Let’s infrastructure something that lasts.

We don’t just ship websites—we build systems that grow with you.
Book a call to scope your project, chart the course, and start scaling the right way.

Schedule your project call

Only 1 opening left for Q3

Let’s infrastructure something that lasts.

We don’t just ship websites—we build systems that grow with you.
Book a call to scope your project, chart the course, and start scaling the right way.

Schedule your project call

Only 1 opening left for Q3

Let’s infrastructure something that lasts.

We don’t just ship websites—we build systems that grow with you.
Book a call to scope your project, chart the course, and start scaling the right way.

Schedule your project call