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.
Civic
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.
A ballot showed up
AI as a research intern: engineer’s report, audit history, counter-arguments — one-pager in two hours.
The CPRA
Filed the original Public Records Act request. Two productions in. Schedule data changed everything.