We help your teams do more with what they have.

Tazy Partners combines consulting with software development to create solutions to maintain your level of service with your existing staff and resources.

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Washington State's 2026 budget shortfall

$2.3B

U.S. nonprofits reporting operating deficits in 2025

39%

Sources: WA State Budget Office; CEP, 2026

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The challenge

Rising demand.
Shrinking budgets.

Local governments and nonprofits are being asked to serve more residents with less, while staff burn out and expectations keep rising.

The same question echoes everywhere: how do you keep serving people at the same level, or better, when the budget isn't growing or is shrinking?

Our promise

We co-create solutions that protect your level of service with your existing staff and resources.

We work with you to build software and process solutions that increase your team's productivity. Three commitments guide every engagement.

Maintain and improve services

Technology augments your staff's work so they can do more.

Protect privacy & security

Every solution is designed with built-in data protection and accountability.

Protect service levels

Residents and clients get the same, or better, level of service.

What we do

Our services

Automate repetitive work and increase productivity

Any task where someone retypes information, copies it between systems, or checks a box to move something along can usually be handled by software. Our software can handle the sorting, checking, and other paperwork to free up staff for higher-level analysis and important public-facing work. We build tools that prepare the work in advance: assembling the file before the meeting, reminding staff about what needs attention, filling in forms with data you already have.

Extend the systems you already own

Older software may be doing its core job fine but can't do something you now need. Instead of replacing it, we can add to it. For example: a page where staff can pull the numbers they need without filing a request, a phone-friendly way to enter information from the field, a new search function, or a way to attach and retrieve documents. You keep your existing system and data, and eliminate the workarounds.

Connect systems that don't talk to each other and turn scattered records into a clear picture

Most organizations run several systems that each hold part of the answer and nobody sees the whole. We build the links between them, so information entered once appears everywhere it's needed. We build dashboards and reports that pull from your existing systems and refresh on their own. This can increase cross-department information sharing and answer questions no single system can.

Replace the spreadsheet that quietly runs a critical process

Nearly every organization has a spreadsheet or shared document holding together something important, maintained by one person who knows how it works. We turn it into a real system with permissions, history, and backup, so it doesn't matter who's out that week.

Make the front door easier to use

We build the public-facing side as well: forms that can be filled on a phone, status pages that allow people to check where things stand without calling, and automatic updates at each step. Your phones ring less, and fewer submissions come back incomplete.

Build the audit trail into the work itself

Documenting compliance after the fact is slow and easy to get wrong. We build systems that record who did what and when as the work happens, then produce the reporting on demand so that audits and reporting requirements stop being projects.

Our solution

Build-capable. Consulting-informed. Technology-agnostic.

Most firms either advise or build; we do both. We can recommend the right fix and deliver it.

How we work

Technology-agnostic

We recommend what's right for you, not a proprietary platform we're locked into selling.

Build-capable

Hands-on software engineering means we can deliver the fix, not just describe it.

Prioritizing people

We prioritize privacy, security, and the people involved.

Stakeholders included

We help you bring residents, boards, and elected officials along with the change.

County staff working with a resident at a service counter

Who we serve

Built for organizations that serve the public.

Local governments and state agencies

County administrators, city managers, and department staff running essential programs under real budget pressure and state agencies looking to modernize workflows without sacrificing fairness, transparency, or accountability to the public they serve.

Nonprofits & human service providers

Organizations delivering government contracted services, often stretched thin with limited internal tech capacity.

Small businesses

Independent, owner-operated businesses ready for lightweight, right-sized technology solutions that actually get used.

How we work

A clear path from first conversation to lasting impact.

A repeatable, low-risk path that starts with listening and ends with a partner that sticks around long after go-live.

Workflow diagram being sketched on paper

Discover

We listen first to assess your workflows, pain points, and goals before recommending anything.

Pilot

A focused, fixed-fee engagement proves value quickly, with a clear before/after result.

Implement

We redesign, build, and integrate the solution and help you manage the change.

Sustain

We stay engaged as a partner, refining what works and supporting your team long after go-live.

Solving problems at the root

One engagement, value for everyone.

A single workflow often serves one or all parties poorly, whether management, staff, vendors, and residents or clients. Well-designed engagements have the potential to solve multiple issues at once and for all parties.

The people you serve

Faster, clearer service with fewer forms, fewer visits, and fewer dead ends.

Frontline staff

Less repetitive administrative work, more time for the work only people can do.

Leadership

Better data, predictable costs, and a defensible case for change.

Partners & funders

Cleaner reporting and evidence of impact at your fingertips.

About

Two founders. Complementary domains. One promise.

Tazy Partners is a consulting and software development company based in Washington State building technology for the public good. We combine deep public-sector experience with hands-on engineering.

Co-Founder & CEO

Tye Ferrell

Whether in local, state, or federal government, Tye has always felt a call to public service. As a City Council Legislative Aide, he helped start the City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability. At USAID, he worked to strengthen democracy and governance, improve public health, and build the conditions for peace and prosperity in countries across Africa and Asia. As a Facilitator and Project Manager at the William D. Ruckelshaus Center, he brought Washington state's agencies, tribes, and local governments together to address complex statewide problems from education to clean energy. At Tazy Partners, he helps clients identify opportunities for improvement and implement them as painlessly as possible.

Co-Founder & CTO

Yerzhan Beisenbayev

Adapting technology solutions to the needs of clients is what Yerzhan loves best. He has led more than 50 complex projects across financial services, telecommunications, government, logistics, and enterprise, including a national eGov mobile platform, SuperApps, fintech solutions, marketplaces, workflow automation systems, and high-load applications serving millions of users. His expertise spans AI strategy and implementation, enterprise architecture, product strategy, process automation, technology due diligence, and building high-performing engineering organizations. At Tazy Partners, he helps organizations turn complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions.

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