The news, with nothing on top of it.
Advocates Philippines has reported for decision makers for years. The reporting was never the problem. The reading was.
So we built them a home with no ads, no pop-ups, and nothing that follows you down the page. You open a story and it lets you read.
MANILA. The Senate committee on finance opened hearings Tuesday on the implementing rules of the new government procurement law, with senators pressing agencies on how the changes will affect pending infrastructure contracts.
Committee chair Sen. Reyes said the panel expects to hear from at least six agencies before the rules take effect, and warned that unclear guidance has already delayed procurement in several regions.
The hearings continue Thursday.
- A cookie wall, a newsletter modal, an ad that plays itself. On most news sites you close three things before the first paragraph.
- And while you read, the page watches you.
The work was always theirs. We made it easier to reach.
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Molave Art Studio sells original prints from a printmaking studio in Makati. Here, paying means transferring and sending a screenshot. Tama naman. It works.
So instead of forcing carts and card gateways on the studio's buyers, we gave the screenshot a home. The buyer reports the payment. The studio's dashboard files it. The owner's Telegram pings the moment it is filed.
Nobody logs in to check. The message finds you.
- Bank transfer, then a screenshot into a chat thread.
- Someone checks each one against the bank app at night, one by one.
- Carts and card gateways assume cards. Most buyers here pay by GCash.
The back office they already know.
Little Way Playschool is launching soon. Visits and trial classes will book themselves on the site.
Every booking writes straight into the school's own Google Calendar. No new system to learn. The teachers open the calendar they already use, and the day is there.
- Bookings by message thread. The school replies when it can, and the parent waits.
- Two families promised the same slot is a problem nobody sees until both arrive.
Piandré, front and back.
Piandré has been cutting hair since 1987, longer than most software companies have been alive. Seventeen branches. One family.
The website is the part you can see: booking, the store, gift certificates. The forms ask one thing at a time and behave on a phone, because that is where clients book. Behind them are the screens the family reads every morning. Built to their rules, not a template's.
- Booking by phone call, at the hours the phones are busiest.
- Gift certificates on paper, reconciled by hand.
- Records in a desktop system only the front desk could open.
Hi Maria! Ito po ang pera n'yo.
A cooperative runs on trust in the numbers. So the portal opens with the numbers, in the member's own language.
The math that decides a loan is shown to the member, not kept in a drawer. When people can see the rules, they do not have to ask permission to understand them.
That is what we think software is for.
- The records lived in one file, on one computer.
- A member who wanted their balance asked the treasurer, and waited.
The batch came home.
Reunions run on volunteers with day jobs. AC 1996 came home with a pledge board and an auction, and both ran themselves.
A pledge is tracked from promise to paid. A bid updates for everyone at once.
- Pledges in a group chat. Payments verified screenshot by screenshot.
- Somebody's classmate ends up doing accounting at midnight.
The work, seen directly.
Archion has designed hospitals, schools, and homes for decades, across the Philippines and beyond. Most firms show you ten photos and call it a portfolio.
Their site plots every project on a map instead. You do not take their word for the breadth. You look at it.
- Ten photos on a page, and a PDF when someone asks for more.
- Decades of work, invisible.
Made for people who make things.
Saan napunta?
AHA teaches children to read. Every donor everywhere asks the same question: saan napunta ang pera?
The site answers before anyone asks. The children, the numbers, the receipts.
- 110 free-form spreadsheets, cleaned by hand.
- Stale for months at a time.
The numbers are live now. Every learner is assessed on five reading levels, and the page draws what moved.
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