Beacon

Beacon builds tools to help people discover opportunities for impact in their own backyards and beyond. Put simply, it is about designing and building iOS and Android apps.

The natural audience is businesses launching or rebuilding an app. Alongside the main category they mention CivicTech, Funding Platform, Mobile Apps and Politics. As a very small company team themselves (1 to 10 people), they tend to serve customers of a similar scale best. Small vendors mean quick answers and real influence on the roadmap, but check who covers support when someone is out.

Beacon is based in San Francisco, California. Their site is beacon.us.

Things worth asking about: portfolio quality, app store experience, and maintenance terms. Ask for a trial on your own data, not a canned demo.

If you have worked with Beacon, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.