GovFiSOLUTIONS

Build what public finance needs next.

Public finance practitioners identify the problems. Builders bring possible solutions. GovFi helps validate, develop, and pilot promising approaches.

From problem to possibility

01Validate

Confirm the problem with practitioners

02Build

Develop solutions with partners

03Pilot

Test in real government settings

04Invest & Scale

Back and grow what works

Our foundation

Born from GFOA. Built for public finance.

30,000+

GFOA members across the U.S. and Canada

Source: GFOA

GovFi draws on the experience and insight of GFOA, home to North America’s largest network of public finance professionals, to help turn real government challenges into practical solutions.

GFOA 120th anniversary seal, 1906–2026

GovFi Solutions is a for-profit subsidiary of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), the professional association for government finance.

Many problems governments face never attract a good solution. GovFi was created to close that gap: validating problems with the people who live them, building and piloting solutions, and investing in what works.

GovFi operates as a separate corporation governed by its own board of directors. A GovFi investment, partnership, or commercial relationship does not constitute endorsement by GFOA unless expressly stated by GFOA.

Our governance and approach

The live agenda

What needs solving. What’s taking shape.

A selection of open public finance problems and the work emerging in response. Development previews are not products available for purchase.

A / Open challenges

  1. 01

    Financial Sustainability / Open

    Revenue portfolios out of alignment

    View challenge: Revenue portfolios out of alignment
  2. 02

    Financial Sustainability / Open

    Multi-year planning under real uncertainty

    View challenge: Multi-year planning under real uncertainty
  3. 03

    Financial Sustainability / Open

    Money available to redeploy is hard to see

    View challenge: Money available to redeploy is hard to see
See all challenges

B / Emerging solutions

  1. 01

    In development

    Risk-based reserves

    Connect your reserve policy to the risks your government faces.

    View preview: Risk-based reserves
  2. 02

    Early development

    Understanding financial health: Three Clocks

    Understand your government's financial health today - and what it means for tomorrow.

    View preview: Understanding financial health: Three Clocks
  3. 03

    Exploring

    Budget simulations and interactive budget books

    Explore budget trade-offs and help residents understand the choices behind your budget.

    View preview: Budget simulations and interactive budget books
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Practitioner perspective

Built around the realities of public finance.

Public finance is changing quickly, and our tools and ways of working need to change with it. GovFi gives me confidence that our profession can help shape that future rather than simply react to it.

Victor Brownlees

Deputy City Manager, Administration

City of Pearland, Texas

There’s a lot changing in public finance right now. I like the idea that GovFi gives people doing the work a chance to help decide what better tools and ways of working should look like.

Robert Widigan

Finance Director

City of Pontiac, Michigan

GovFi can serve as a partner for the already stressed public finance officers, where a community is behind you to tackle the problems facing our industry, together.

Matt Clutterbuck, CPA, MBA

Chief Financial Officer

Special District Risk Management Authority, Sacramento, California

Innovation in local government isn't about adopting technology for its own sake; it’s about solving real-world fiscal challenges faster and more collaboratively. GovFi is creating the space where finance professionals can actively design the future of public stewardship instead of waiting for it to happen.

David Goldman

Deputy City Administrator

City of Oak Harbor, Washington

The ecosystem

Three ways to contribute.

Progress in public finance takes more than one kind of participant. Different perspectives. A shared focus on better solutions for government.

  1. 01

    Practitioners

    Help shape what gets built.

    Share an unmet need, contribute expertise, or express interest in testing solutions around the realities of government finance.

    Share a challengeExplore role: Practitioners
  2. 02

    Builders

    Bring a solution to the table.

    Bring a company, product, or idea. Explore problem validation, practitioner collaboration, pilot design, and selective investment.

    Apply with a solutionExplore role: Builders
  3. 03

    Investors

    Connect around future possibilities.

    Express non-binding interest in GovFi’s future investment work. Investment opportunities and outside capital participation are not promised.

    Express investor interestExplore role: Investors

GovFi has not yet established or commenced an investment offering. Information submitted here is an expression of interest only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to purchase securities.

The next step starts with a real problem.

Bring us a problem, product, or company. Let’s explore what deserves to be built.

Apply with a solutionShare a challenge