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Gavin Baum-Blake Is Teaching City Hall to Notice What It Misses
The Army veteran and attorney built City Detect around a stubborn municipal truth: cities cannot fix what they cannot see. His next test is making computer vision useful without letting the machine make the human decisions.
The Garbage Trucks That Went to War With Urban Blight
A University of Alabama economics experiment strapped cameras to trash trucks to map urban decay. Five years and $15 million later, City Detect is doing the work of 40 code officers with one vehicle - and cities are starting to fix blight before it spreads.
Stella
Stella is a Y Combinator-backed AI assistant that turns any website into a 24/7 customer expert. Installed with a single line of code, it learns from a site's own content to answer visitor questions, qualify leads, and route complex cases to humans. Founded by Ryan Endacott (YC S22), Stella serves small businesses, SaaS companies, and local governments - including the Town of Carmel, NY, where it answered more than 2,400 resident questions and saved staff over 200 hours.