@patwater
Spent my early career in the Excel mines helping municipalities procure data work. The process was absurd. RFPs that took years. The question "did this actually help anyone" almost never asked.
That was almost 2 decades years ago. The procurement hasn't changed. But everything else has.
Waze and Waymo stream continuous street quality data across entire cities. Quadratic funding lets communities signal what they value. Retroactive public goods funding rewards demonstrated impact over promising proposals. AI synthesizes all of it into something as legible as a Moody's rating.
Where is the dune.xyz for civic outcomes? Analysts competing on track record. Community signal weighted by breadth not dollars. Retroactive rewards for assessments that called it right.
We can tell you how many lane-miles got paved. We still can't tell you if the streets got better.
That gap is finally closable. Who's building it?
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