Legal data & software

Institute for Humane Studies · 2025

ScholarsEdge

A research platform that consolidated statutes, regulations, bills, and scholarly work into traditional, semantic, concept, and graph-search systems.

Institute for Humane Studies · 2025

Excalibur

An Electron application somewhere between VS Code and Word: a workspace for researching, analyzing, and writing about public policy. Its constrained agent assembled dependable workflows—search, graphs, and statistical analysis—from the user’s request, relevant data, and narrowly defined skills.

Mercatus Center · 2024

Concept graph & concept search

A graph-based approach to legal search that normalized differences in document length, vocabulary, and topic density using co-occurrence, cross-citation, hierarchy, and legal relationships.

Mercatus Center · AI Engineer · 2024

Legislation bot

An AI-assisted system that matched new and changing legislation to research teams, ranked results, tracked selected bills, and delivered weekly email digests.

Mercatus Center · Data Engineer · 2023

Nukebot

The final project of my data-engineering tenure: a retrieval-augmented chatbot for federal and state nuclear-energy law and regulation. I built the search index, shared model storage, API, serverless functions, and network architecture.

Vulcan · 2025–2026

A national legal and government-data platform

Built a database and collection system spanning federal, state, and roughly 19,000 municipal governments, with billions of records from legal and other public sources.

Selected publications

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Mercatus Center · 2022

Census of Regulatory Restrictions

With Kofi Ampaabeng and Patrick McLaughlin

A comparison of the volume, complexity, industry relevance, and issuing agencies of regulation in Australia, Canada, and the United States.

Read PDF 35 pages · 944 KB

Manhattan Institute · 2019

Post-Employment Benefits in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut

An examination of unfunded retiree health-care obligations and reforms that can preserve benefits while reducing risks to public services.

Read PDF 20 pages · 3.3 MB

ALEC · 2019

Unaccountable and Unaffordable 2018

A survey of more than 280 state-administered public pension plans, their assets, liabilities, assumptions, and funding risks.

Read PDF 22 pages · 1.4 MB

ALEC · 2018

State Bonded Obligations, 2018

A state-by-state collection and analysis of $1.1 trillion in outstanding bonds reported by states and their component units.

Read PDF 94 pages · 3.5 MB

ALEC · 2018

Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 2017

A survey of state-administered non-pension benefit plans and the actuarial assumptions, reform choices, and risks behind their unfunded liabilities.

Read PDF 31 pages · 1.7 MB

ALEC · 2017

Unaccountable and Unaffordable 2017

An analysis of public-pension underfunding using both state-reported assumptions and alternative measures of long-term risk.

Read PDF 26 pages · 3.2 MB

Yankee Institute · 2016

Where Has All the Money Gone?

The 25th Anniversary of Connecticut’s Income Tax

A review of spending, taxes, deficits, and the constitutional spending cap in the 25 years following Connecticut’s adoption of an income tax.

Read PDF 12 pages · 498 KB

Yankee Institute · 2015

Taxes at Home

A Comparison of Municipal Spending

A town-by-town comparison of per-capita municipal spending in Connecticut, with a closer look at four of the highest-spending municipalities.

Read PDF 16 pages · 1.3 MB

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