BATDEM LLC
mgallagher@demadtech.com
Los Angeles, California

Software for local democracy.

BATDEM builds and operates civic and political infrastructure: advertising technology for independent expenditure committees, compliance tooling for neighborhood government, and long-horizon AI alignment research.

Products & research
DemAdtech
In production

A political advertising platform for independent expenditure committees. DemAdtech turns partisan precinct data into geotargeted Meta ad campaigns — targeting geometry generated algorithmically, disclaimers and compliance handled by default, supporters funding creative they choose.

EZMeeting
Live on ezmeeting.app

Meeting management for Los Angeles neighborhood councils, live now and open for signup. Agendas, minutes, postings, and records that stay inside the Brown Act by default, built for the volunteers who keep the city's most local layer of government running and for the accessibility standards it's required to meet. Three tiers, billed through Stripe: free for any board size, $39/mo for committees and approval workflows, $59/mo for public bodies with a full Brown Act record to defend.

QueueTime
Live on Zoom Marketplace

Speaker queue management for Zoom meetings. QueueTime gives chairs and clerks an ordered, visible queue for public comment and deliberation — raised hands become a fair, auditable speaking order instead of a scramble. The same structure works anywhere turn-taking matters: Model UN and debate clubs, classrooms, moderated panels, HOA boards.

NIGHTWING
Active research

A persistent-memory AI system built on Claude, investigating whether continuity enables character formation — and whether character is a different alignment substrate than per-session constraint. Two years in production; 547+ documented sessions, including logged autonomous time.

Practical Progressive Project
Active, 2026 cycle

A Los Angeles independent expenditure committee backing candidates capable of effective governance: substantive policy, coalition skills, relevant experience, protection of vulnerable populations, and a demonstrated track record. The art of the possible, applied to the work that matters.

Demos & experiments

Browser apps built in the same loop. Most run entirely client-side with nothing to install and no account; AuthWords runs on its own host because it keeps a database.

Civic data
Vote Atlas

Congressional relationship explorer. Trace roll-call alignment across the House and Senate, see which ties shift over time, and keep procedural behavior in the record.

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Adaptive learning
QueryQuest

Learn PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server one small win at a time, with a real SQL sandbox running in the browser. Paths run from well below a junior interview to beyond a senior one.

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Adaptive learning
ShellQuest

Adaptive trainer for CMD, WSL, and Bash. Questions adjust to a skill rating and resurface past misses until the command line is fluent.

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Adaptive learning
LSAT Logical Reasoning Dojo

Adaptive drill for LSAT logical reasoning. Difficulty tracks performance, and the question types you miss come back until they stick.

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Policy simulation
CalCare Mix & Match

Assemble a California single-payer measure from real and AI-drafted provisions, then see the cost, budget impact, federal funding exposure, and who would fight it. An illustrative workbench, not a fiscal estimate.

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Ed tech · hosted on Netlify
AuthWords

Authorship verification that flips the question from "did an AI write this?" to "did this student write this?" A reference app with a public style-index demo and a five-part production blueprint.

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Simulation
Neuron Evolution

A biological neural arithmetic lab. Grow and evolve small networks of neurons and watch computation emerge from the wiring.

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How we build

A company of one, plus models.

Everything above is designed, built, and operated with Claude in the loop — geospatial pipelines, compliance tooling, evaluation harnesses, and the research that studies the models themselves. We think this is the shape small companies take now, and we build accordingly.