In Kazakhstan, conscripts of the Ministry of Defence and the National Guard, and people held in penitentiary facilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, can only place outgoing calls from registered taxophones on the premises. Each taxophone reads a prepaid card; each card has a balance and a whitelist of family numbers it is allowed to dial. The family, on the outside, has to keep that card alive — buy it, top it up, audit who called when, dispute fraudulent deductions. Before Jas Tarlan, that work happened over manual bank transfers and SMS receipts. We were brought in to compress all of it into a single app on a parent's phone.