A decade in energy policy. Now building the intelligence tools I wish I'd had.
I was Chief of Staff in the Missouri Senate, a registered lobbyist on energy and tech for four years, and spent three years managing government affairs and community relations for a multi-state HVDC transmission project with a $2M+ annual public affairs budget.
In 2025, I started building AI tools to solve problems I understood from the inside. Regulatory monitoring that would have taken a team hours per week. Opposition tracking that flags risk before it becomes a headline. Daily intelligence pipelines that do the research work automatically.
Those tools now run in production. They power The Daily Mine, a daily energy newsletter, and a live opposition database covering 78 scored data center and transmission projects across the US.
Automated FERC, state PUC, and local docket monitoring. Relevant actions flagged daily. Built for teams that can't afford to miss a filing.
78-project database with predictive risk scoring, updated daily by AI. Know which projects face serious resistance before it goes public.
State legislative strategy, coalition development, and regulatory engagement. Four years lobbying energy bills. Three years on the developer side managing the politics of a contested transmission project.
End-to-end research and monitoring workflows built on Claude. From source scanning to structured daily briefs, running without human intervention.
Available for project-based or retainer engagements. If you want to see what automated regulatory and opposition intelligence looks like applied to your work, I am offering a small number of free 30-day pilots to start.
stephen@thedailymine.co