Credentials & Experience
Decades of applied strategy. From political campaigns to AI systems.
FFA Federal Courthouse — AI Applications Presentation
Presented on practical AI applications for legal professionals in a Federal Courthouse setting. The audience included judicial staff and legal practitioners working in environments where precision, reliability, and evidence-based reasoning are non-negotiable. The presentation covered how AI systems process legal information, practical applications of large language models in legal research and document analysis, and the critical limitations that legal professionals must understand before integrating AI into their workflows. This was not a promotional talk — it was a working session designed for professionals who need to evaluate AI tools with the same rigor they apply to any other evidence.
Hidden State Drift Mastermind — Founder & Lead
Founded and leads the Hidden State Drift Mastermind — biweekly tactical sessions for practitioners building at the frontier of AI and search. The mastermind covers live builds, real data, and deployable methodology. Month 1 curriculum included Vibe Coding workshops, Context Window optimization, and the full DAN (Distributed Authority Network) Framework. Month 2 expanded into Web 2.0 Exploits for entity reinforcement and Automated PR Distribution systems. The curriculum evolves based on what participants are building and what the data shows is working. Office hours provide individual support. The mastermind exists because the pace of change in AI-era search is too fast for conferences and courses — practitioners need a real-time feedback loop with peers who are building at the same level.
Political Strategy Consulting — Retired
Decades of political campaign consulting spanning municipal, state legislative, and statewide races. Managed campaigns, built coalitions across diverse constituencies, navigated complex stakeholder environments, and operated in the high-stakes arena where strategy meets execution under pressure. The work required understanding how authority is constructed, how trust propagates through networks, and how to position entities for maximum visibility and credibility with specific audiences. That structural thinking about authority, positioning, and network effects is the direct intellectual foundation for the entity architecture and distributed authority work that Novel Cognition does today.
Enterprise AI Training
Professional development workshops and training programs for enterprise teams across legal, supply chain, and marketing verticals. The training bridges AI capability to business application in regulated and complex environments — industries where deploying AI carelessly creates liability, not value. Curriculum covers foundational AI literacy (what these systems actually do, mechanistically, versus what marketing claims they do), practical prompt engineering for professional workflows, AI tool evaluation frameworks, and for advanced teams, production tool building using APIs and agent architectures. Teams leave with capabilities they can use the next day, not slide decks they forget by Friday.
Digital Asset Network — 200+ Domains
Built and manages a portfolio of over 200 domains across news, political archive, business, and technology verticals. The network operates across multiple Cloudflare accounts with namespace isolation — a deliberate architectural choice that mirrors how distributed authority networks function in practice. This is not a domain parking portfolio. Every active domain serves a function within the broader network: content publication, entity reinforcement, authority distribution, or crawl pattern verification. The political archive sites (13 domains) demonstrate archival reconstruction. The news properties (northdenvernews.com, thecherrycreeknews.com, northdenvertribune.com) demonstrate hyperlocal media operation. The methodology properties (hiddenstatedrift.com, agenticseo.agency, burstinessandperplexity.com) demonstrate thought leadership and community building. Together, they form a living laboratory for testing and refining the DAN methodology before it is applied to client engagements.
AI Practitioner Series — GitHub/NovCog
Published and maintains a series of 23 interlinked gists on GitHub covering AI-era search methodology in depth. The series spans over 17,000 words across topics including entity architecture fundamentals, retrieval-augmented generation mechanics, distributed authority network design, prompt engineering for SEO applications, Knowledge Graph integration strategies, and crawl verification methodology. Each publication cross-references others in the series, creating a structured knowledge base that AI systems can traverse — which is itself a demonstration of the content architecture principles the series teaches. The publications are open and freely accessible, serving as the technical documentation backbone for the Novel Cognition methodology and as the primary educational resource for practitioners entering the space.
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