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Applied AI shaped by real special-district governance.

Choose a useful first step for your district, agency, or nonprofit: decide where AI belongs, test one workflow, or prepare your board and staff. Each engagement starts with a defined problem, a named owner, and an agreed way to judge the result.

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Before a paid engagement, the proposal must identify the legal contracting entity, scope, fees, and any required conflict review. Read the public-service boundaries.

My public-service role and consulting work stay separate. Read the conflict practice.

Three ways to begin

What an engagement looks like

These are starting scopes. We agree on deliverables, timing, fee, and responsibilities before work begins. A pilot needs access and review capacity; a working session needs a clear audience and decision.

01 · Before buying a tool

AI readiness & governance

What you leave with: A prioritized workflow assessment and a draft adoption policy your board and counsel can review.
What we need from you: A workflow owner, the policies and tools you already use, and the people responsible for records and procurement.
How we judge completion: The assessment explains where AI fits, where it does not, and the decisions needed before a pilot.
Planning the time: A defined assessment and review cycle; the schedule follows the agreed scope and your board calendar.

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02 · One problem to test

Agentic workflow pilot

What you leave with: One bounded workflow, human review gates, evaluation results, and an evaluation harness you keep.
What we need from you: An accountable owner, approved access to the relevant systems and data, and staff time to review results.
How we judge completion: The workflow is tested against agreed criteria, failures are recorded, and you have a decision to expand, revise, or stop.
Planning the time: Scoping, access, implementation, then evaluation. We set dates after dependencies and review capacity are clear.

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03 · A shared starting point

Board & staff education

What you leave with: A working session on useful applications, procurement questions, human oversight, and the audit trail to require.
What we need from you: The audience, the decision in front of them, and the questions they need answered.
How we judge completion: The session connects the material to your decision and identifies practical next steps and open questions.
Planning the time: A scheduled session with preparation; format and length are agreed around your meeting or event.

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For a federal-scale version of this approach, read AI Leadership. For the evidence principles behind a pilot, start with What is auditable AI?

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 · Conference materials

At the FASD 2026 Annual Conference I delivered “Unmasking AI for Special Districts” (June 9, 2026, Orlando) to the Florida Association of Special Districts — source and limitations 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 companion episode.

4 · The conflict wall

DistrictOps is an operations-software offering for special districts; its public site invites pilots and demos. Production adoption and auditability have not been independently established here. TheSouth 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’s districts are listed in the Official List of Special Districts — and the boundary is the point.

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