Vulcan Technologies recently launched!

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^{"AI to Write Laws and Regulations."}

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Founded by Tanner Jones, Aleksander Mekhanik & Chris Minge

They came together because they believe AI can and should strengthen America's democratic institutions.

Tanner turned down Harvard Law School and left his job as Technology and Regulatory Policy Director at Joe Lonsdale's Cicero Institute where he worked on AI and regulatory policy in 30 states. Previously he worked for Andrew Yang's presidential campaign and wrote his Dartmouth thesis about the "ontology of American regulation."

Alek dropped out of Dartmouth where he studied Machine Learning, was a chess champion, and a recipient of the Jack Byrne grant for Dartmouth's top math students. Alek also worked as an AI engineer at several startups before founding Vulcan.

Chris left Google where he built ML infrastructure for Gemini and Waymo. Before Google, Chris studied CS and Philosophy at Princeton. Chris became passionate about regulatory reform and leveraging AI to improve policy after following SF politics and the emergent abundance movement.

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Vulcan Technologies

They are deleting red tape and replacing expensive consultants with AI tools that empower elected officials to actualize the public will and interest.

Virginia Required Their Product by Law

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Traction

• Governor of Virginia: Signed Executive Order last week embedding their invention, “AI agentic regulatory review,” into Virginia's regulatory processes, memorializing our ongoing contract
• U.S. Department of Education: Implementing regulatory changes with their platform
• South Carolina PAC: Contracted for regulatory reform initiatives
• Acquired RegsBot: Their biggest competitor
• Advisory Board: Stanford Hoover Institute economics PhD (20+ years regulatory research) + Top-5 law school JD (2 White House tours, 20+ years law/policy)

The Problem

Elected officials — representatives, senators, governors, and presidents — write laws and executive orders to actualize their campaign promises and, in theory, serve the public will and interest. These newly-minted laws and executive orders are then passed to regulatory agencies in the executive branch, occupied by thousands of bureaucrats and contractors, who write regulations and guidance documents designed to implement laws and executive orders.

In the status quo, the regulatory implementation process is sluggish and highly bureaucratic. Each regulatory change must cohere with all existing state law, federal law, and case law; otherwise, agencies risk litigation and the loss of their budgets. Consequently, agencies spend millions of dollars and years hiring consultancies and law firms just to double-check that their proposed implementation of laws and executive orders is actually lawful.

Each step in this onerous and years-long iteration loop creates new arenas for political conflict, wastes taxpayer dollars, and means that the public will, exercised by elected officials, is not actually implemented.

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Their Solution: AI Legal Cartography

Vulcan's agentic scraper reflects the entire American legal corpus (statutes, regulations, case law, in all jurisdictions) and their proprietary AI knowledge graph maps relationships between legal nodes. Examples: court precedent nullifies federal law, federal law supersedes state law, federal funding demands state compliance, etc.

Their system:

• Instantly redlines proposed regulations
• Responds to public comment
• Drafts legislative language
• Illuminates compliance violations while generating lawful alternatives

They enable elected officials and their appointees to execute policy changes without wasting time and tax dollars on legal complexities and consultant dependencies.

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Asks

• Agency connections — state and federal agencies, legislative counsels, regulatory affairs, anyone in government to whom they can sell
• Govtech sales wisdom — government contracting as a startup is uniquely challenging and they would love to pick the brains of anyone with experience
• Legal/regulatory expertise — administrative law attorneys who understand the compliance landscape
• Government veterans — folks with credibility and gravitas who have occupied senior roles in state and federal government agencies
• Feedback on their vision — tehy are building AI that empowers elected officials to implement durable policy changes

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Their Ideology

They see a dialectic in AI and government: totalitarianism (algorithmic control and surveillance undermining freedom) vs. humanism (AI empowering innovation and responsive government, unlocking unprecedented freedom, creativity, and individualism).

At Vulcan, they are building the humanist future — tools that empower elected officials to serve the public interest without bureaucratic capture.

Their core belief is: as AI gets better, the Republic should get better too.

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Learn More

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