TresPies · Madison, Wisconsin
For people who run a business, build a community, or sold work they now need built. I research who it’s for, design it and build it. Hire TresPies and the payment account and the customer list are in your name, and the source files are handed over to you. Partner with TresPies and we share in what it earns, on terms we agree with each partner.
What TresPies builds stays with you after the work ends.
One mark, three feet
Behind every door are the same three parts: the research that shows who it’s for, the engineering that runs it, and the design people see. Every engagement is scoped before anything starts.
The sun
Who’s there and what they need. For public work, it becomes a map.
The water
Built on accounts in your name, documented, backed up and handed over.
The mountains
The mark, the maps, the charts and the slides, made for your business and handed over with their source files.
“New” means I’ve built the capability and you’d be among the first to buy it. “First build” means I haven’t built one yet, and you’d be the first.
Who TresPies works with
Look like yourself, and sell from accounts in your name.
Brand, in three tiers.
Own your sales.New
A members club.First build
Membership, perks and events, with a member list you keep.
A digital space for your people: yours, or shared with us as partners.
Apps.New
Built and handed over to you, or built and run with us as partners.
Community platforms.New
Example: Plugged (joinplugged.com), a community platform TresPies built and runs with its co-founder.
Public data spaces.New
Example: Madison Equity Data (madisonequitydata.org), Dane County’s 125 census tracts, with every map citing its sources.
Night Shift, for partners.New
If you work with people paid in cash and tips, you can offer them Night Shift, a TresPies product.
Bring TresPies in, under your name or ours.
Engineering, research or design inside your engagement, scoped with you and handed over to you and your client.New
A named subcontractor on a grant or study, in English and Spanish.New
Upkeep for the integrations you’ve delivered, on a quarterly term.New
For teams running AI coding agents: Dojo onboarding, $97, live or self-serve. The first date isn’t set yet, so it starts with an interest list. Then an audit and install.New
“New” means I’ve built the capability and you’d be among the first to buy it. “First build” means I haven’t built one yet, and you’d be the first.
How we work together
You bring the audience, the idea or the community. TresPies brings the research, the design and the build. We share in what it earns, on terms we agree with each partner.
A fixed scope, set before work starts:
The accounts are in your name from the start, and the files are handed over at the end.
TresPies Store
The maps and charts in the TresPies Store are drawn from public data, and each line names its sources. They come as posters, framed posters, desk mats and wallpapers. Each card opens its page in the store.
Map
Waters — Yahara Watershed, Madison WI
Every mapped river and stream that drains the watershed. Data: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset and NHDPlus.
Map
Streets — The Isthmus, Madison WI
Every mapped street, with a compass of which way they run. Data: OpenStreetMap.
Map
Routes — Madison WI
Every mapped transit route: where the lines run and where they meet. Data: OpenStreetMap.
Map
Depths — Lake Superior
The lake floor, from the shoreline to its deepest point, in bands of depth. Data: NOAA.
Chart
Daylight — Madison WI, 2027
Sunrise and sunset on every day of the year, computed from the sun’s position.
Chart
Hours — Madison WI, 2027
Golden hour, blue hour, sunrise, sunset and high noon for a whole year, on one chart.
Seven lines so far: Places, Daylight, Hours, Moonlight, Depths, Worlds and Routes. Sets put several designs together, from a year in Madison to the Great Lakes, Mars and the Moon.
Madison Equity Data: Dane County’s 125 census tracts on interactive maps, every layer rated for confidence from T1 to T5.
The store’s Places, Routes and Depths lines. For a community-development organization: 6 maps of a 225-property portfolio, interactive and print-ready.
The store’s Daylight, Hours and Moonlight lines: a whole year of sun or moon for one city, on one chart, computed from its coordinates.
For a community-development organization’s leadership, presented live: a deck that runs offline in a browser, with a presenter view, a printed script, a leave-behind and a backup PDF in case the screen share fails.
How value multiplies
Research and software, English and Spanish: most of what TresPies does is put two things together. What comes out is handed over: to your team, on your accounts, in your language. Here are three ways that plays out, each with work you can open today.
Engineering · Design
The site, store, or app you already have moves onto accounts you control, or the one you need gets built. Either way it’s documented, backed up, and handed over to you.
A hosted site builder moved to hosting you control
The one you’re reading. All 18 of its old blog posts and their images were recovered in the move.
Cash and tips combined with taxes set aside
A money app for people paid in cash and tips: shifts, earnings, and what to set aside for taxes, in English and Spanish.
nightshift.A site template combined with a workshop series
A demo site for a made-up bilingual workshop series, built from a template in under 21 minutes.
taller-abierto.Research · Engineering
The study becomes data you keep, and the data becomes a tool your team can open without calling me. Every source gets written down, so every answer can be checked.
Census tables combined with a map
Dane County’s 125 census tracts, every source cited and every estimate rated for confidence, in English and Spanish.
madisonequitydata.Public data combined with an open API
Wisconsin public data anyone can query: 72 counties, 1,542 census tracts, more than 50 variables, and no login.
api.A document audit combined with a browser tab
Paste a Spanish vital document and score what a reader actually walks away with. It never leaves your browser.
languageaccess.Design
Put two familiar things together and something dry becomes easy to read for the person it’s about.
Metro signs combined with a website
The lab’s public work, drawn as a transit map. The pictograms follow the tradition of Lance Wyman’s 1969 signs for the Mexico City Metro, so you can find a stop without reading its name.
trespies.An essay combined with a directed graph
A short essay on what it feels like to meet, and work inside, a directed graph.
madeofdoors.A logo combined with a generator
The mark at the top of this page is drawn from parts, a little different every time it’s redrawn.
See it at the topProof
31 pts
The gap in chronic absence between Black and White students in Madison’s public school district, 2024–25: 47.9% against 16.7%. From an atlas of all 125 census tracts in Dane County and the district’s 54 schools.
For a Dane County housing nonprofit
$7.68M
Property taxes billed for tax years 2020–2024 on the homes a housing nonprofit built and the rentals it owns, from the county’s recorded tax bills. Six sample parcels, checked year by year against the county’s public tax portal, matched to the penny.
For a Chicago community-development organization
1,542
Census tracts in an open API for Wisconsin public data — seventy-two counties, more than fifty variables, and no login to lose.
Policy Data Infrastructure
6 maps
A community-development organization’s whole portfolio, 225 properties, mapped by neighborhood: interactive and print-ready, every record with its source.
For a Chicago community-development organization
Ventures
Feed it a Spanish document; it scores what a Spanish-speaking reader actually walks away with. The firm’s whole argument, small enough to run in a browser tab.
languageaccess.trespiesdesign.comEverything else that’s running, drawn as a transit map and checked live before every build.
trespies.devThe agent infrastructure is a sibling brand: dojogenesis.com · github.com/DojoGenesis
Who signs the work
TresPies is a small research and software firm: one person in Madison, Wisconsin, working in English and Spanish. Three feet: the research and the maps, the engineering that keeps systems running, and the design that carries it.
Before the firm, I did the data and the writing behind affordable-housing tax-credit applications — $150M+ requested, $80M approved. On a team, a decade before TresPies existed.
The commitment under all of it is the same. What I build comes back to the people it describes. The accounts are in your name from the start, and the files leave with you when the contract ends.
— Cruz Romero Morales · TresPies LLC · More about me
Or the idea. In whichever language it lives in. You’ll get a straight answer, with numbers in it, inside two business days.
