You build the people. We make them findable.
Reentry organizations, workforce boards, community lenders, and mission organizations do the hard work of helping people start businesses and rebuild lives. The Midnight Garden builds the digital infrastructure that lets that work be seen: sites, visibility systems, portals, and AI agents, built by hand, for the people you already serve.
Organizations that create entrepreneurs.
If your participants leave your program with a business and no way to be found, the visibility gap is the leak. That is the gap we close.
Reentry organizations
You help justice-impacted people start over and start businesses. We give those businesses a real surface to be found and trusted, built by someone who has lived the road back.
Workforce boards
Your entrepreneurship and self-employment tracks need a downstream partner who can take a graduate from idea to findable. We are that partner.
Community lenders and CDFIs
A loan builds the business; visibility makes it repay. We help the borrowers you back get found by the customers who make them viable.
Mission organizations
Nonprofits and coalitions that need their own infrastructure: directories, intake systems, data products, and portals. We build those too, often as a coalition contribution.
Simple, respectful, no quotas.
No portal to log into, no minimum referrals, no pressure on your participants. A warm handoff is all it takes.
Send a participant our way
Point them to the free Five-Answer Audit, or make a warm introduction. There is no cost to them to find out what they need.
We meet them where they are
Early-stage and mission builds are often offered at no cost to move the mission forward. Scope and fit come first, always in plain language.
You see the outcome
The participant gets found, the business gets traction, and your program gets a real, linkable success story. The work is the proof.
Built by someone who has been on the other side.
Troy Carr is formerly incarcerated and self-taught, with a decade of direct service to justice-impacted people across halfway houses, sober living, treatment centers, jails, and prisons in Wisconsin. The work already runs in production with partner organizations: the MKE Reentry Housing Hub built with Dr. LaTonya Baker's organization, a housing-verification tool for a Wisconsin commutation cohort, and advisory and technical leadership across the state reentry ecosystem. Client names, quotes, and metrics appear only with consent. Sensitive data is handled with privacy discipline.
Start a partner conversation.
Tell us about your program and the people in it. The first conversation is free, and there is no obligation on either side.