When most people think about technology, they picture shiny new tools, big-budget builds, and teams of engineers working inside massive companies. But for Brad Griffith, founder of Buckeye Innovation, technology is only meaningful when it’s accessible, especially to the people and organizations who traditionally get left behind.

For more than 16 years, Brad and his cross-functional team have been helping small businesses, nonprofits, and local governments across Central Ohio get the same caliber of design, development, and strategy usually reserved for enterprise-level budgets. In this conversation, Brad and I discuss why equitable access to technology matters, how integrating designers, developers, and content strategists into a single collaborative unit changes everything, and why building “simple, lovable, complete” products often beats building something technically impressive but practically unusable.

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