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“We are in negotiations, can't talk about it too much, but we're in negotiations with A case management company that has a contract with federal courts for all the federal courts, basically, including immigration.”

“The biggest company within this space is is really an elephant named Tyler Tech, a multi-billion dollar primarily government software company based in Texas, and they don't really like us. So they actually built out a product To kind of compete with us, their …”

“So we can't give a government employee, you know, 50 dollars or a hundred dollars to go do a referral on G-II. It just doesn't work. They're not legally allowed to. Technically they can accept less than 50 dollar gifts, but even then it's not looked, ah, kindl…”

“So then once COVID hit, courts all get shut down. Now I only have a 10 K contract with pay as you go on two cents a message. So much, much less expected volume. So a statewide contract ended up actually spending less than a county contract.”

“And then the state of Texas finalized a new bill, Making court reminders a legally required obligation on the courts. Within a couple weeks, we got a phone call from the department, Texas Department of Information Resources here in Austin, wanting us to, you k…”

“And so, in our case, what we found is every time we update the website, and there's new RFPs, the verbiage that are on the RFPs is exactly pulled from our website.”

“And that's one of the things that these, that the existing payment companies like Encore really take advantage of people because they're charging 10% processing fee.”

“And we're just, we launched in the beginning of this year, and we're just seeing you know, this month is roughly 956,000 last month in terms of payment reminders sent and collected on by the courts.”

“The ratio of growth with the one-off messages, the manual messages is actually more. So we see more or a higher increase in terms of just court staff sitting on this all day and using it as their messenger.”