■ 04 / TRAVELIN DEV
Terra Venture
An AI travel companion revealing the hidden stories behind the places you pass through.
AI COMPANION / PLACERALC-04
FOUNDER · TECHNOLOGIST · BUILDER
Buildingthings
I’m Ryan. I turn complicated systems into useful products, mostly across AI, government technology, civic data, and whatever problem looks interesting next. My first company, GrantExec, was bootstrapped from zero to an acquisition by Euna Solutions in January 2026.
Core threads / ref. systems 01 to 05
01AI & applied intelligenceSYS 01·03·04·05
02GovTech & public systemsSYS 01·02
03Products people can useSYS 01·02·03·05
04Experiments & side questsSYS 03·04
SYSTEM MAP / INTERACTIVE
SCALE 1:1 / IDEAS TO OBJECTS
DATUM 0,0
GRID 760 × 700
DRAWING SET / 5 SHEETS
REVISION / AUG 2026
REVISION / AUG 2026
Selected systems
Three ventures and two public tools, each an attempt to make a complicated thing more legible, useful, or interesting.
■ 01 / GOVTECHACQUIRED ↗
GrantExec
An AI-powered platform helping organizations find, apply for, and win grant funding. Bootstrapped from 2022 founding to 2026 acquisition by Euna Solutions.
AI WORKFLOWS / FUNDINGRALC-01
□ 02 / CIVIC DATALIVE ↗
Where Are My Tax Dollars Going?
A personal tax receipt that turns federal and state budgets into a dollar-by-dollar explanation.
DATA VIZ / TAX POLICYRALC-02
□ 03 / EXPERIMENTDEMO ↗
BS Detector
A mobile-first listener that extracts factual claims from live speech and fact-checks them in real time.
SPEECH / FACT-CHECKINGRALC-03
■ 05 / SOCIAL TVCONCEPT
Streamy
Live-tweeting for the streaming era. Comments are pinned to the timestamp rather than the clock, so a show is watched together even when nobody presses play at the same time.
ASYNC COMMENTARY / TVRALC-05
Working principles
- 01Look out for others. The point of any system is the people inside it.
- 02Good business and public good are not opposites. Build both.
- 03Pursue the truth wherever it leads. Verify, then say it plainly.
- 04Progress over fear. Fascism does not pass inspection.
- 05Compassion is load-bearing. Do not remove it to save weight.
Legend
Venture / built as a business
Civic / built as a public tool
GrantExec, Terra Venture + Streamy are ventures. Tax Dollars + BS Detector are free public tools.
OPEN CHANNEL / HI@RALC.DEV