The $20 plan is not enough
The June records dump turned a civic side project into a sustained AI analysis workload. The cheap consumer tier is not built for that.
Ai-First
I let an AI navigate my June primary ballot
Three days before the California primary, I worked through eight down-ballot races with an AI agent — and the framing the agent surfaced mattered more than the candidate picks.
Three different pitches, three different reporters
Tailored outreach to three local journalists, each angled to their actual beat.
200 PDFs at the door
Three LLMs as parallel analysts on a CPRA document dump. Honest forensics on 200 PDFs in a week.
Homeowners renewal, three quotes in a week
AI didn’t make the calls. It made me crisp by the third one.
A website I didn't know I had
Walking AI through a years-old Wix dashboard until it knew the site better than I did.
Seven solar panels making zero kWh
AI is great at drafting the polite-but-firm follow-up. It can’t make the repair cheaper.
A ballot showed up
AI as a research intern: engineer’s report, audit history, counter-arguments — one-pager in two hours.
Pre-event outreach without spamming everyone
Four tiers, four different messages, every send approved by hand.
The cabin runs on a checklist nobody used to keep
The freeing thing isn’t automation. It’s that I stopped carrying the list in my head.
Venmo CSV → attendance tiers
An afternoon script that finally tells me who hasn’t shown up in four events.