California spent $24 billion.
Nobody tracked where it went.
We built the system that does.
Operation Iron Gate is the accountability platform for homeless services — built to track every person, every provider, and every outcome in real time.
The most expensive homelessness response in America. The least accountable.
California’s own State Auditor called it “a data desert.”
State Auditor Report 2023-102.1 · April 2024The money was spent. The outcomes were never tracked.
In 2024, California’s State Auditor delivered a verdict the state couldn’t answer.
$24 billion spent over five years — and no reliable way to say what worked. The agency responsible for tracking it stopped in 2021.
Of five major programs reviewed, only two could be shown to be cost-effective. Three — holding $9.4 billion — couldn’t be evaluated at all, because the data didn’t exist.
Nearly one in three people left programs for “unknown” destinations. No one could say where they went.
You cannot fix what you refuse to measure.
Operation Iron Gate closes the gap the state left open.
A coordinated operating system for homeless services — engineered so no one gets lost, and so every case, every handoff, and every outcome can be seen and proven.
Real-time case tracking
Every person, every step, from the front door to housing. No more “unknown destinations” — the system always knows where someone is.
No one falls off the mapProvider accountability
Referrals are tracked to outcomes, not just sent. The numbers show who delivers and who doesn’t.
Sent is not the same as servedOutcome measurement that lasts
Housing is checked at 30, 60, 90, and 180 days. Success means the help held — not that a form was filed.
Measured at 30 / 60 / 90 / 180 daysOne credential. No dead ends.
A person without ID still moves the same day. No one waits at the door, and no one falls through the cracks.
Same-day access, every timeThe numbers don’t hide. They’re built to be seen.
Operation Iron Gate carries a public transparency layer — so results can be watched in the open, not buried in a report no one updates.
This isn’t another program. It’s the accountability layer the system never had.
The state’s approach
- — Billions spent, outcomes never consistently tracked
- — Tracking stopped in 2021, with no plan to resume
- — One in three people exited to “unknown”
- — Referrals counted as sent, never followed
- — Results claimed, rarely shown
Operation Iron Gate
- ✓ Every dollar and outcome built to be seen and proven
- ✓ Real-time tracking, always on, by design
- ✓ Every exit recorded — zero unknown destinations
- ✓ Referrals tracked to outcomes, providers held to them
- ✓ Results public, in the open, downloadable
Why now. What’s different.
A short executive brand film — why this crisis is happening now, and what makes this technology different.
Launching in Vallejo.
Operation Iron Gate launches its first pilot in Vallejo, California — the proving ground for a model built to scale across counties and the state.