Those are subscription platforms. You rent access. They own the data infrastructure. If you stop paying, you lose access. NinoTech front-loads cost and eliminates recurring dependency. You get static HTML, Google Sheets, and Cloudflare Workers — technology you own, running on infrastructure that costs $7/year. No vendor lock-in. No license to renew. The technology outlives the grant.
No. You need to describe your problem. The scoping tool matches your description against 146 tools and generates a build spec. NinoTech assembles and configures the components. You get a working system with a Google Sheets backend your staff already knows how to use.
The technology keeps running. $7/year covers a Cloudflare domain, and Google Sheets is free. There are no servers to maintain, no licenses to renew, no subscriptions to cancel. This is the decisive advantage for grant-funded organizations with sustainability requirements — the technology outlives the funding.
Because the components are domain-agnostic. A Bayesian scoring engine doesn't know whether it's scoring patient reliability, polluter accountability, or ROSCA contributions. A federation protocol preserves sovereignty whether the nodes are tribal nations, tenant unions, or community colleges. Content changes. The scaffold does not. This is the Normal→Broken→Fix principle: the reasoning pattern is universal, only the domain-specific content varies.
NinoTech's 74 components provide the substantial base — scoring, federation, compliance, multilingual content, document generation. 72 curated open source projects extend into domain-specific depths: OpenMRS for clinical EMR, Docassemble for guided legal interviews, farmOS for farm management, Apache Fineract for microfinance. NinoTech is the scaffold. Open source is the finishing material. You get the best of both without building either from scratch.
Yes. The instructional architecture is IRB-approved (Institutional IRB, Exempt 45 CFR 46.104(d)(1), approved March 2026) and running a scholarship of teaching and learning study at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Results: 100% pass rate, +16.7 point accuracy gain, 313 measured diagnostic interactions, 650+ students served. The assessment architecture is described in a paper submitted to the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council. The N→B→F scaffold has been validated across 12+ domains.
The $7 is a Cloudflare domain registration fee. Everything else — Google Sheets, Apps Script, Cloudflare Workers (free tier), static HTML hosting on Netlify or Cloudflare Pages — is genuinely free. The $7 is the only recurring cost because the architecture was designed around zero-cost infrastructure from the start.
Yes. The homepage demos show four components running live — federal API dashboard, savings calculator, dispute letter generator, and assessment chain tracer. CommUnity OS is the full civic platform — 50+ pages, 8 federal APIs, dispute letters in 5 states — running at $7/year right now.
John K. Nino Sr, MD. Tenured biology professor, platform architect, Chicago. The full story — from snake neuroendocrinology through medical school through 74 components — is on the about page.
Scope your project. Describe the problem. The tool shows which components apply, which open source extends them, and where NinoTech leads alone. Email the build spec. We talk.
The best way to find out if NinoTech fits is to describe your problem and see what comes back.
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