Transparent City
Co-founded with Rob Goldman in 2025, Transparent City is a civic data platform that reads San Francisco's public data, flags anomalies, and helps people understand what is changing inside city government.
San Francisco publishes an extraordinary amount of public data, but most of it is scattered across agencies and portals in ways that make it hard to see the whole picture. When Rob Goldman and I started working together in 2025, we kept coming back to the same question: what if someone actually read all of it?
The timing mattered. San Francisco had a new mayor talking seriously about fixing the city, and both of us felt that any real revival had to start with evidence rather than anecdote. Rob brought unusual technical depth to the project, but just as important, he cared deeply about the city and wanted to build something useful rather than merely impressive.
That became Transparent City, an open-source, non-profit effort to apply AI across the full range of the city's public data and surface two-sigma anomalies, the outliers that tell you something may actually be shifting.