Category: Launch

  • Launch: Rural Health Transformation Grant Tracker

    Launch: Rural Health Transformation Grant Tracker

    Throughout my career, I’ve worked alongside amazing developers to build applications that live on the internet. I’ve helped design systems, shape product direction, and define requirements — but I wasn’t writing the production code myself. New inventions like Claude Code, Open AI Codex, and other tools have changed that. Now I talk to computers and…

  • Launch: Social services agency on monday.com

    Today I delivered a complete monday.com-based operations hub for a nonprofit that empowers youth and young adults who are grieving the loss of a parent or guardian. I designed, built, and delivered the system on CRM and Work Management as well as a written Systems Manual that documents every board, form, automation, and workflow. Situation…

  • Launch: Arte Agora Detector GPT

    Today @shawnlaree and I launched the Arte Agora Detector, a new GPT I published to the OpenAI GPT Store: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-qwiBHB65O-arte-agora-detector. This is a basic experiment in configuring a GPT to tackle a specific domain. Upload an image of art and get a detailed analysis of whether it looks like it was made, sold, or placed…

  • Published: Preface to “They Killed A Minister”

    https://www.derivativeworks.com/2021/10/lajuana-lampkins-gallery-show-october-9-2021.html

  • Launch of Japanese Outsider Woodcuts

    Today I helped launch Japanese Outsider Woodcuts (JOW), a new gallery created by Mark Boelhouwer, a longtime collector of woodblock prints created by untrained western artists mimicking and building upon the traditional Ukiyo-e style of Japanese woodcut artists. Here’s more: The gallery focuses on the work of Paul Jacoulet, a French national who lived in…

  • Founding of Civic Elevator

    Founding of Civic Elevator

    Today I helped create Civic Elevator, an enterprise software company focused on the vertical transportation business. I was also appointed CEO of the new company.

  • Launch: Arte Agora Book

    Today I launched the website for my new book: Arte Agora: Art made, sold, or placed in the public way.

  • Communications: Blue Button Launch at HIMSS Conference

    Today the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Blue Button 2.0,  a “developer-friendly, standards-based API that enables Medicare beneficiaries to connect their claims data to secure applications, services and research programs that they trust”. Ad Hoc is working to develop this product as a subcontractor. I was responsible for the business development, capture, proposal development, and…

  • Cohorts: incisive research on government digital services

    Cohorts: incisive research on government digital services

    I conceived and launched Cohorts, a service of Ad Hoc that allows us to conduct incisive research with groups of relevant people to make government digital services work better for all. Here’s some snips from the launch blog post: There are two components to Cohorts — finding the right people and conducting the right research. On…

  • Report: Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

    Report: Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

    Today marks the publication of the  Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve“. I served on the Early Intervention & Personnel Concerns working group, and helped develop this recommendation: publish, on a monthly basis, aggregate data on the following: new and pending complaints by unit,…