Structures decide. So I build better ones.
I build websites, tools, and public records. I have worked inside front-line services — on the staff of a Latino community nonprofit, helping people enroll in health coverage. Before I built for this work, I lived it.
What I Build
Civic software /
I build sites that put documented, checkable information where people can reach it — filings, timelines, primary sources. Every claim traces back to something you can open yourself.
Community websites /
I build for nonprofits and small businesses. The site works on a phone first, it is findable in local search, and it is in more than one language when the community speaks more than one.
AI fluency /
I build with these tools in the open and publish the receipts: what they got right, what they got wrong, and how I checked. The discipline is checking what the machine hands you against evidence.
Built in the Open
On Tuesday, August 29, 2023—one week to the day before my first class in math and computer science at my community college—I typed my first prompt (a message to an AI) into ChatGPT. When I came back to the chatbot on October 1st, it was with a homework problem, and for the next three years the record looked like this: 874 active days, about 22 replies a day. Slow and steady. By three independent counts, 53 to 58 percent of every word I exchanged with ChatGPT was learning, and the biggest single slice was computer science and programming: Java homework and exam prep.
The numbers behind the chart
| Month | Conversational AI (ChatGPT) | Agentic AI (Claude) |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2023 | 4 | — |
| Sep 2023 | 0 | — |
| Oct 2023 | 205 | — |
| Nov 2023 | 308 | — |
| Dec 2023 | 573 | — |
| Jan 2024 | 459 | — |
| Feb 2024 | 297 | — |
| Mar 2024 | 402 | — |
| Apr 2024 | 668 | — |
| May 2024 | 396 | — |
| Jun 2024 | 65 | — |
| Jul 2024 | 776 | — |
| Aug 2024 | 287 | — |
| Sep 2024 | 341 | — |
| Oct 2024 | 564 | — |
| Nov 2024 | 596 | — |
| Dec 2024 | 993 | — |
| Jan 2025 | 905 | — |
| Feb 2025 | 669 | — |
| Mar 2025 | 672 | — |
| Apr 2025 | 1,502 | — |
| May 2025 | 3,064 | — |
| Jun 2025 | 459 | — |
| Jul 2025 | 333 | — |
| Aug 2025 | 370 | — |
| Sep 2025 | 612 | — |
| Oct 2025 | 500 | — |
| Nov 2025 | 503 | — |
| Dec 2025 | 446 | — |
| Jan 2026 | 213 | — |
| Feb 2026 | 539 | — |
| Mar 2026 | 905 | — |
| Apr 2026 | 395 | — |
| May 2026 | 520 | 3,093 |
| Jun 2026 | 47 | 13,305 |
| Jul 2026 | 41 | 5,694 |
In May 2026, after three years of learning, the curve broke. I started using Claude, Anthropic’s AI, and went from conversational AI to agentic AI: instead of asking questions and getting answers, I was directing teams of AI agents that research, build, and draft whole projects—websites, apps, and, above all, civic and legal advocacy—which I reviewed. The pace went from 22 replies per active day to 345. The single biggest thing I have ever built with AI is the Bad Faith Prosecution wiki—a public, sourced, plain-language record of a criminal prosecution.
The Record
I designed and built this public record.
Bad Faith Prosecution
A public record of the Broadview Six case: independent legal research and citizen journalism. Every claim traces back to the filing it came from. I read the federal docket and checked each date and statute before any of it shipped.
I built this site, and the writing on it is mine.
Grown From Concrete
My own writing, including an honest accounting of my AI use — the full corpus exported, classified by an analyzer I built, independently audited, then verified again from scratch on a competitor’s tools.
I designed and built this site for a client.
Serie 32 Grocery
A Dominican-owned bodega. I built the local search around how neighbors actually look for a corner store and wired in DoorDash ordering rather than a checkout the store did not need.
I ran this website as a member of the staff.
Latinos en Axión STL
I ran the website and built out the Spanish translation — and worked Cover Missouri outreach, helping people enroll in health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Most people who build for community organizations have never worked inside one. I have. I have also been the person those organizations exist for. I know what it is like to need the website to do one specific thing for somebody who is counting on it, today, with no budget and no time. And I know what a bad form costs when you are the one who needs it to go through.
That is also why I will not hand you something you cannot check. If I say a page is faster, there is a number. If I say a tool got something right, there is a source. What I learned as a grassroots organizer is shaping what I build next: a tool that lets a small group run a real meeting inside a Signal chat — discussion, debate, motions, and a recorded vote.
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