Recidiviz GTM brain

Recidiviz is a nonprofit that equips corrections agencies with integrated data and workflow tools for staff and better reentry outcomes.

category

Corrections data and operations platform

market profile

  • text: Corrections leaders need timely data from fragmented systems to measure policy effects and help staff act on individual needs.
  • text: State partnerships combine software and government funding with philanthropic support; implementation must work within agency data governance.

personas

  • title: State corrections director
    pains:
    • Must improve reentry and safety while managing overburdened staff
    • Cannot easily see whether policy changes improve outcomes across facilities and supervision
  • title: Corrections research and planning administrator
    pains:
    • Disconnected databases and stale reports limit visibility
    • Building timely measures requires reconciling inconsistent records
  • title: Community supervision officer
    pains:
    • Finding relevant information across a large caseload takes time
    • Housing, employment and mental health needs can be hard to surface early

icp

  • text: US state departments of corrections responsible for facilities and community supervision, with several legacy data systems.
  • text: Agencies pursuing reentry reform or policy implementation and able to sponsor a secure, cross-system data partnership.

message pillars

  • text: Give leadership practical ways to save staff time and measure progress.
  • text: Create a useful data layer from fragmented systems.
  • text: Build with practitioners and people with lived experience.

objections

  • objection: Replacing our entire offender management system is too disruptive.
    response: Scope a modular deployment alongside existing systems and confirm integration responsibilities.
  • objection: Sensitive records and high-stakes decisions require strong governance.
    response: Review access, data-sharing agreements, security and human decision authority with agency and community stakeholders.
  • objection: Our state's rules and workflows are different.
    response: Co-design a scoped workflow with agency staff and validate outcomes before expanding.

competitors

  • name: Reconnect
    why: Overlapping community supervision and client case-management software.
  • name: Corrections Partners
    why: Software and services for corrections case management and reentry.
  • name: Mi-Case
    why: Corrections case management vendor that can compete for agency software budgets.

influencers

  • name: Clementine Jacoby
    url: https://www.axios.com/2023/03/14/police-prisons-criminal-justice-data-latino
    why: Co-founder and CEO speaks publicly about standardizing justice data.

keywords

  • corrections data platform
  • prison reentry case management
  • community supervision software
  • criminal justice data integration
  • corrections policy forecasting
  • parole caseload management

voice

  • Mission-driven
  • Human-centered
  • Evidence-oriented

signals

  • text: A state begins modernizing corrections systems or reconciling fragmented facility and supervision records.
  • text: Agency leadership sets reentry or staff-capacity goals and needs actionable measures of progress.

stack

  • Open source
  • APIs

hiring

  • State Partnerships Manager

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • state partnerships
  • press
  • LinkedIn
  • policy content
  • industry events

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Joshua Essex
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Co-founder and CTO, Recidiviz. Previously: Principal Engineer and Architect, Opower.
  • name: Clementine Jacoby
    title: Founder
    role: Founder

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