Workers’ Rights
Working through employment questions
Tools for researching workplace protections, organizing events and records, and preparing to speak with an employment attorney.
Workplace rights research and preparation
Explore Workers’ RightsPublic Work
Useful ideas, put into practice.
Growth Stack Technologies develops public-interest software projects alongside its advisory work. Led by Joel Spurling, the practice explores ways to make complex information easier to understand and use.
Projects built by Growth Stack
Each project serves a different audience, with its own scope, sources, and product experience.
Coverage Rights
Making sense of an insurance denial
Public decisions, plain-language guides, and planning tools help people identify an appeal route and organize a response.
Insurance-denial research and appeal preparation
Explore Coverage RightsRenters’ Rights
Working through a security-deposit question
Guides, timelines, and evidence checklists for renters in Florida and California. The limited-launch workspace keeps work in the current tab; refresh or close clears it.
Limited launch: Florida and California security deposits
Explore Renters’ RightsVeterans’ Rights
Finding a path through veterans’ appeals
Educational guides, published Board decisions, a combined-rating calculator, and routes to accredited help. The decision library covers decisions through April 30, 2026.
Veterans’ appeals research and navigation
Explore Veterans’ RightsThe decisions behind the work
These projects explore a recurring question: how can software help someone move from unfamiliar information to a next step they can understand and control?
The work brings attention to source traceability, clear choices, and the difference between generating an output and checking it. Each project describes its capabilities and limits on its own site.
Writing behind the work
The Part of Me That Builds
Joel Spurling’s personal account of work, leadership, and staying human offers another perspective on the values behind his work.
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