Cari Harris

When opportunities align with a community's priorities, they deserve to be pursued. That's why The Butterfly Effect worked alongside the Baltimore City Department of Planning Office of Sustainability, the Department of Transportation, the Department of General Services, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center to help assemble a collaborative application for the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) City Climate Innovation Challenge. The national initiative—developed in partnership with C40...

We’ve been in the mix supporting multimillion-dollar initiatives, helping organizations operationalize newly secured funding of $154,000+, building systems for teams scaling faster than their infrastructure, and supporting stakeholder alignment across government, nonprofit, and private-sector partners.

As soon as a developer moves from “I do everything myself” to hiring subcontractors, assistants, or property managers, the risk profile changes overnight. The difference between staying lean and scaling into a real company is not just about closing bigger deals—it’s about upgrading your minimum compliance and operations hygiene. This guide walks through the nine areas where every scaling developer needs a baseline system. You can read it as an article and use the bullets as a working...