About Waymark Lab
Built From the Inside Out
Waymark Lab was founded by people who spent careers inside California government — not looking at it from the outside. That perspective shapes everything we build.
"California's county agencies carry the weight of the most complex social programs in the country. The people who do that work deserve technology that helps them — not technology they have to fight through to do their jobs."
— Waymark Lab Founding Principle
By the Numbers
What We Bring to the Table
Our Values
What We Stand For
These aren't aspirational wall words. They're the principles that drive every product decision we make.
Integrity First
We don't oversell, over-promise, or under-deliver. Government agencies need partners they can trust — and trust is built through honesty about what we can and cannot do.
Security Without Compromise
Sensitive citizen data is not negotiable. We build every system as if we are personally responsible for every record it contains — because we believe we are.
Real Impact
Our measure of success is whether a CalFresh family kept their benefits, or a caseworker finished their day without burning out. Not lines of code or features shipped.
Deep Partnership
We don't sell software and disappear. We embed with county teams, learn the culture, understand the constraints, and stay through the hard parts of implementation.
Our Approach
Government Experience Is Not Optional
There's a long history of technology companies entering the government market with commercial tools and impressive pitch decks — only to underestimate the complexity of public sector operations. Procurement constraints. Legacy system dependencies. Regulatory compliance. Union considerations. Budget cycles. We know all of it.
Our founders have worked inside county agencies, inside state-level programs, and alongside the caseworkers who manage California's most critical social safety net programs. We build software informed by that experience — not by assumptions.
That means slower, more deliberate product development. More stakeholder engagement. More time understanding the problem before writing a line of code. And better outcomes because of it.