AI Experiments

Redwood City’s Veterans Memorial Senior Center Phase 1, often described as the RWC Veterans Center or Veterans Memorial Senior Center-YMCA project, came in 34 months late at significant public cost. This page collects the accountability notes for that specific project: CPRA productions, schedule analysis, cost-recovery questions, and the slow work of turning public records into a structural root-cause analysis. The goal is a publication-ready account of what happened, who should be accountable, and whether the City is using the recovery tools available to it. AI is the analyst; I’m the editor and the one whose name goes on it.

One-off civic workflows where AI helped make a decision legible. This section is separate from the Redwood City Veterans Memorial Senior Center Delay Accountability Project, which is its own public-records investigation.

A 1920s house in town and a cabin a few hours away. Two sets of vendors, two insurance policies, two utility stacks, two property-tax cycles. The AI doesn’t run the vendors — vendors are humans. The AI runs me. The unlock is “nothing slips,” not “nothing manual.”

Small fusion-dance scene. The work splits into three things: keep regulars regular, win lapsed people back, and make sure the next event isn’t a surprise to anybody. Most of the levers are personal outreach, not marketing. AI helps where the lift is “look at all of this and tell me who to text.”