Jul 1, 2025
“It’s Just a Form” — Why Small Workflows Matter More Than You Think
From the field: Notes on modernizing public operations

Alexis Maison
Founder
“It’s just a form.”
We’ve heard this dozens of times. A paper form used to track payments. A notebook for clinic visits. A shared Google Sheet buried three tabs deep.
But these aren’t just forms.
They’re often the only record of who’s been helped, who’s waiting, what’s missing, and what’s next.
In public-sector work, these small workflows are where reality lives. They shape who gets served, how decisions are made, and where accountability begins — or disappears.
Digitization often skips this step.
Large platforms try to rebuild everything at once. But when they fail to capture the nuance of a single form — how it’s filled, who signs it, where it goes — they fail altogether.
That’s why OSP90 starts here.
Not with a strategy document or a grand dashboard, but with one critical, high-friction process that’s currently stuck in paper or improvisation.
We ask:
What is the team already doing?
What’s fragile or error-prone?
And what would unlock real time or trust if it just worked better?
Then we build just enough software to fix it — and nothing more.
The result?
A fast win. A proof point.
And a team that’s now seen a digital shift they helped design, in their own terms, working in their own environment.
That’s how digitization gains traction:
Not with scale, but with specificity.