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Fortune
Nick Lichtenberg

Meet the Gen Z whiz kids maniacally working '996' hours with AI to help governments repave your roads: 'I'm sure we got close to burning ourselves out'

Daniel Pelaez (Credit: courtesy of CYVL)

In the heart of Somerville, Massachusetts—a hipster enclave outside Boston—a group of Gen Z tech prodigies is flipping the script on government infrastructure.

They’re a team of twentysomethings operating on “996” schedules (that’s 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week), regularly pulling long nights and early mornings. But what really fuels them isn’t just competitive paychecks or bootstrapping their successful startup on the way to a $14 million series A. Instead, it’s a passion for transforming the world of “govtech” and redefining how governments manage and upgrade critical assets like roads and sidewalks.​

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