ChangeUs — Civic Engagement Platform

Founded ChangeUs Inc. — a full-stack civic engagement platform connecting citizens with local government through AI-enhanced policy analysis, representative lookup, and community organizing tools. Pending patent (U.S.) for AI-Enhanced Civic Engagement technology. Incorporated as a Delaware C-Corp with EIN, bylaws, and operating agreements.

Designed and built the complete full-stack architecture: React frontend with interactive district maps (Mapbox GL), representative profiles with voting records, and community discussion boards. Node.js/Express backend with RESTful API, PostgreSQL database with PostGIS for geographic district lookups ("who represents me at this address?"), and Redis for session management and API response caching. User authentication via JWT with refresh token rotation and OAuth 2.0 social login (Google, Apple).

Built an AI-powered policy analysis engine that takes proposed legislation text and generates plain-language summaries, identifies affected demographics, estimates fiscal impact, and highlights potential constitutional concerns. The engine uses GPT-4 with custom system prompts trained on legislative language patterns, combined with a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline that pulls relevant precedent from a vector database of historical legislation. This is the core innovation covered by the pending patent — using AI to bridge the gap between complex legislative language and citizen understanding.

Developed civic engagement workflow tools: petition creation with signature verification (email + SMS OTP), automated letter-to-representative generation (AI drafts personalized letters based on user's concerns + representative's committee assignments + relevant legislation), event organizing with RSVP tracking and calendar integration, and a civic engagement score that gamifies participation (attending town halls, contacting representatives, voting in elections) to drive sustained engagement beyond election cycles.

Handled all business formation and operations: Delaware C-Corp incorporation, EIN registration, bylaws and operating agreement drafting, shareholder equity structure, USPTO provisional patent application for AI-Enhanced Civic Engagement methods, and pitch deck preparation for seed funding conversations. This end-to-end founder experience — from legal entity formation through product architecture to patent filing — demonstrates the ability to own and drive a project from concept to company.