Political risk advisory at a national public affairs firm. The New Intelligence.
A working log of AI and knowledge work from inside a real advisory practice. The systems, what broke, and the numbers.
| Part no. | System | Function | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRM-01 | Detto | Local voice capture for macOS. Meetings, memos and dictation transcribed on-device, written to notes as markdown, cleaned up by an on-device LLM. Nothing captured leaves the Mac. Source. | LAUNCHED |
| GRM-02 | GrembleVoice | The voice engine behind Detto. Parakeet streaming recognition, on-device Llama 3.2 refinement, a modular Swift package, open source. | OPEN SOURCE |
| GRM-03 | Crypt | The knowledge system behind a working advisory practice: structured notes, automated monitoring, meeting processing, daily briefs. On-device. | IN PROGRESS |
| GRM-04 | All-Time Hockey | A daily NHL all-time draft game. Draft a starting six from seven decades, simulate a season, try to go unbeaten. Built for fun. Found an audience on Reddit anyway. | LIVE · WEB |
| GRM-05 | OnRecord | AI media training for enterprise spokespeople, built on years of preparing executives and officials for hostile rooms. | PRIVATE BETA |
I advise at a national public affairs firm in Vancouver: government relations, corporate affairs, strategic communications, crisis and issues management, political risk. The files cross mining, energy, pharma and tech, including a major social platform on online-harms legislation.
I work with frontier and open-source models daily, and ship what holds up: Detto, GrembleVoice, Crypt. Everything client-adjacent runs on-device. The hockey game exists because it was fun to make.