AI-native builder

Jesse LeVasseur

I turn messy real-world records into AI systems that ship.

Three platforms live in production, each designed, built, and run by one person. I taught myself to build in 2026 by directing AI tooling — I architect the system, drive the build, and own it when it's running. Before software I was a firefighter captain and disaster-response paramedic; I brought the ownership with me.

Available now · full-time · remote
3 platforms
live in production — built and run solo
weeks
from idea to a platform people actually use
~8,000
school districts reached by a national scan I run
1 person
product, build, and operations

What I've built

The work of LION — the company I founded and run solo, building public-records and civic / govtech software end to end by directing AI.

Public-records analytics

Collapses the slow, manual grind of public-records requests into one automated pipeline — filing to government agencies and turning what comes back into structured, searchable data.

  • Built to fail closed, on purpose. I knew the AI would invent answers if I let it, so I required it to check every answer against its source, do the dollar math in code, and route anything uncertain to a human before it goes out. The safety design is the point.
  • Reads scanned government records and pulls the data — including how each board member voted — as exact quotes from the page, so it can't report a result that isn't there.
Live: files requests that real government agencies respond to.
Cloudflare Workers · D1 · R2 · vLLM · LoRA fine-tuning · Python

Governance platform

Runs a membership organization's real parliamentary process in software — motions, debate, roll-call votes, minutes, and bylaw amendments.

  • Reused my first platform's design to stand the whole thing up in two weeks: clause-anchored comments and redline on the governing documents, a 2/3-threshold voting engine with eligibility rules, and an append-only public audit log.
  • It needed sign-in flows no off-the-shelf tool covered, so it was built to the OAuth 2.1 spec to power an AI (MCP) connector.
Live: in use by an actual organization's members.
single Worker · D1 · R2 · SPA · OAuth 2.1 · MCP

National library-data census

A free, public census of ~8,000 school-district library catalogs. It maps the undocumented internal APIs behind six different catalog systems and checks them at national scale — every result cited to its own source.

  • When it started bleeding ~$160/month in cloud costs, I caught it and had the analysis moved onto a local copy — same answers, no bill.
  • An AI review pipeline reads each title on a mix of local and cloud models at about $0.09 a record, and every tag has to be quotable from its source or it's dropped.
In active build — a free, public census, each result cited to source.
pure-HTTP scan engine · reverse-engineered APIs · local + cloud LLM · Stripe

How I work

I build by directing AI — and I own the result. I decide what to build, direct AI tooling to build it, then test it, run it, and answer for it in production. I don't hand-write the code; the rare skill is the judgment around it — knowing what to build, catching when something's wrong, and refusing to ship what can't be trusted.

I'm the one who catches it. A query running far too slow, a model about to make something up, a bill quietly climbing — I notice, and I don't let it stand. Nothing ships that I can't stand behind.

Solo so far, and built to hand off. I'd rather take a sharp review than defend a weak call, and I'll dig into an unfamiliar system the same way I take apart a new problem — until it's obvious.

Composure under pressure. Before software I ran fire and EMS calls and led disaster-response deployments. Same instinct in production — own the outcome, stay calm when it breaks.

A maker off the clock. I built my own tiny house and live on a farm in North Texas — I like making things that last.