This page is live as a working thesis and is intentionally built for expansion as interviews, municipal research and field evidence accumulate.
The near-term civic opportunity is not an artificial mayor. It is a system that can read rules, retrieve requirements, explain choices and guide people through routine government interactions without forcing them to learn the bureaucracy.
If that direction continues, the public-facing experience of government may become less departmental even while departments continue to exist legally and operationally underneath. That shift has enormous implications for permitting, licensing, economic development and civic access.
What comes next
This note will be expanded with interviews, source material, field observations and direct evidence as the work develops. The point is to make the thinking public enough to be challenged — and structured enough to become useful.