[ FOUNDER · CIVIC DATA TOOLS ]
Consumer intelligence on top of
public data.
Most public data is technically available and practically useless. I build the tools that close the gap — starting with hospital prices and Virginia's criminal courts, the numbers that hit people at the worst moment and nobody can read.
HospitalCost.com
Founder
What I think about.
The questions I keep coming back to, and where I've developed strong points of view.
Civic Data Accountability
Public datasets that exist but are unusable by the people they're supposed to serve. Where the next decade of consumer-facing accountability tools gets built.
Trust Engineering
What it takes to build data tools people can actually rely on, verify, and cite. The discipline that separates a public-facing tool from a marketing dashboard.
Decision Quality
The machine makes output free. What it can't make is the record of why you chose this and killed that. Decision logs, killing bad ideas early, and saying no to more things than you say yes to.
Independent. Public-data. Consumer-first.
Two independent data products the public can actually use — hospital prices and Virginia criminal court records — built for accuracy, freshness, and trust.
[ TOOLS & EXPERIMENTS ]
Internal tools I've built.
Working artifacts and systems for marketing problems I keep running into.
[ LATEST WRITING ]
Recent thinking.
Get in touch
Working a story I might be a source for, building something in civic data, or just want to connect — message or book a time.