Santa Rosa Beach · 30A · Florida
Doug Liles
Applied AI & GovTech for special districts and the public good — fast, ethical, auditable.
I'm Doug Liles — founder and CEO of the Good Samaritan Institute (GoodSam.ai) and Good Combinator, an elected Special District Commissioner in South Walton County, Florida (elected 2020), and host of the AI for Good: Transforming Communities podcast. With three decades in technology, I build AI systems and civic-tech tools at the intersection of applied AI and GovTech — fast, ethical, and auditable.
- GoodSam: Good Samaritan Institute · GoodSam.ai — Founder & CEO
- The Commission: Elected Special District Commissioner, South Walton County, FL
- AI for Good: Host — AI for Good: Transforming Communities podcast
- Point Preserve: Private Santa Rosa Beach venue for weddings, retreats & group stays (30A)
The Podcast
AI for Good: Transforming Communities
Conversations with builders, public servants, and researchers putting AI to work for real communities — from stormwater management to nonprofit operations. Practical, hopeful, and grounded in what actually ships.
All episodes →The Ecosystem
One mission, many roots
GoodSam.ai
Nonprofit AI institute
GoodCombinator.ai
Accelerator for mission-driven AI ventures
Point Preserve
Private 30A venue for weddings & retreats
Point Washington Preserve
Coastal campus for AI founders
TownOracle.AI
Civic & govtech AI
EcoGuardian.AI
Environmental monitoring
EduGator.AI
AI for education
TechTransfer.ai
Research commercialization
RealWorldAI.ai
Applied AI case studies
FL5 — DistrictOps
Auditable ops software for special districts
Let's build something auditable.
Agentic workflows for local government, nonprofit AI strategy, or a conversation about what responsible AI looks like in your community — start here.
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