Work with me
Applied AI shaped by real special-district governance.
I consult with special districts, local governments, nonprofits, and the firms that serve them on applied AI — agentic workflows with human-in-the-loop gates, explicit evaluations, and provenance you can hand to an auditor. The credential behind the pitch isn't a slide deck: I've served on a Florida special district board since January 2021 — elected in 2020, now board Chairman — governing under the same Sunshine Law, public-records, and ethics constraints your board lives with every meeting.
Public record
Governance experience behind the work
My service on a Florida special-district board informs how I approach transparent, auditable systems. The records below document separate public-service, nonprofit, and professional work; they do not represent District adoption or endorsement of a commercial product.
1 · The elected seat and governance standard
Elected to Seat 1 of the South Walton Mosquito Control District board in 2020; serving since January 2021, now Chairman. That service operates under open-meetings requirements in FS § 286.011, public-records requirements in FS Chapter 119, and Florida's ethics laws. I also publish a voluntary conflict-of-interest and recusal practice aligned to FS § 112.313 and § 112.3143, along with bounded evidence records for selected claims.
In a separate public-comment record, on July 22, 2026, I submitted a public comment to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection concerning its July 2026 draft amendments to Chapter 62-342, F.A.C. The comment is published in full with official sources, with a separate evidence and limitations record.
See The Commission for the public record.
2 · A nonprofit funding record
In a separate Good Samaritan Institute funding record, Florida's FY2022–23 General Appropriations Act, Specific Appropriation 1665A, included $250,000 for “Smart Stormwater Management to Improve Florida Water Quality and Prevent Flooding” — requested through Senate Local Funding Initiative Request 2461. A retained FDEP agreement-initiation form for LPA0381 names Good Samaritan Institute as grantee. The primary sources — and the limits of what they prove — are published as an open evidence record.
This is an appropriation and agreement-initiation record, not an outcome claim. Full provenance: LPA0381 evidence record · grant documentation
3 · Teaching the state
At the FASD 2026 Annual Conference I delivered “Unmasking AI for Special Districts” (June 9, 2026, Orlando) to the Florida Association of Special Districts — verified evidence record. The companion field guide — “Safe AI implementation for Florida Special Districts” — is a 47-minute, governance-first walkthrough on the AI for Good feed, and Florida Special Districts, Explained is a free, non-partisan civic explainer published on this site.
Listen on the podcast page.
4 · The conflict wall
DistrictOps is auditable operations software for special districts. The South Walton Mosquito Control District is not a DistrictOps customer. Under my published conflict practice, neither I nor any entity I own, control, direct, or represent seeks or accepts a contract with the South Walton Mosquito Control District. The work is for other districts — Florida has more than 2,000 active special districts — and the boundary is the point.
What an engagement looks like
AI readiness & governance
Where AI actually fits your district's workflows, what the Sunshine Law and Chapter 119 mean for the tools you're considering, and a board-ready adoption policy. Fixed scope, plain-English deliverable.
Agentic workflow pilot
One high-friction workflow — records requests, permitting intake, meeting minutes, vendor compliance — rebuilt with human-in-the-loop gates, explicit evaluations, and full provenance. You keep the evaluation harness.
Board & staff education
A working session your board can act on: what AI can and can't do for a single-purpose government, the procurement questions to ask, and the audit trail to require. Built from the FASD 2026 material.
Facts on this page follow the same rule as the rest of this site: statutes, appropriations, and records are cited exactly, and claims stop where the evidence stops.
Start with 15 minutes.
A short call is the fastest way to see whether this fits your district, agency, or organization.