Joël McClurg

Ex Machina Solutions LLC

• Advisory practice for AI governance, risk, and compliance, working with organizations in regulated industries on AI adoption planning, governance programs, and evaluation of deployed systems.
• Deliverables: sequenced adoption roadmaps with named owners, risk and compliance frameworks aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, and evaluation design with measurable outcomes.
• Fixed-scope framework readiness assessments (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001): obligation mapping, risk-tier classification, gap analysis, prioritized remediation plan.

Gavelin

• Founded and operate a legislative-intelligence platform: bill coverage across all 50 states and DC, with speaker-attributed hearing transcripts in nine states at 98.8% attribution accuracy across 1.4 million segments.
• Full-text search and API and MCP access for policy teams.
• Sole builder of the data pipeline, the attribution system, and the application.

Propel Inc.

• Lead H.R.1 research and analysis, translating the law's SNAP and Medicaid work-requirement provisions into state-by-state operational and fiscal impact.
• Built and maintain the H.R.1 SNAP Impact Estimator plus public dashboards tracking SNAP caseload declines and payment-error-rate trends across every U.S. city and county.
• Designed Claude API systems for the AI Safety Net Residency thesis, purpose-built to catch and mitigate client-facing SNAP payment errors before they reach households — a direct continuation of the PER mitigation work begun as Colorado's SNAP Compliance Officer.
• Produce AI-integration roadmaps for nonprofit and philanthropic clients, translating frontier-model capability into operational deployment plans for safety-net agencies.

Provecho Collective (formerly Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger)

• Directed a $5M to $9M statewide initiative aligning policy, philanthropy, and community-driven food sovereignty efforts; served as convening body for 60+ member organizations and six state agencies.
• Met recurringly with CDHS leadership to support statewide SNAP payment error rate mitigation, advocating for the administrative staffing increases the state needed to sustain compliance gains.
• Drove statewide SNAP and federal nutrition policy reform, securing legislative wins that expanded access and strengthened county-level program operations; raised $30M+ across philanthropy and government.
• Led AI integration and predictive analytics across food equity initiatives, streamlining grant allocation and county performance benchmarking.

Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger

• Led the legislative campaign for Colorado's Heat and Eat policy, designed primarily as a payment error rate reduction mechanism by simplifying utility allowance verification.
• Administered a $350K grant piloting co-enrollment across Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC, navigating three state agencies with competing eligibility architectures.
• Synthesized policy research, county-level performance data, and stakeholder feedback into legislative testimony and federal-comment infrastructure.

Colorado Department of Human Services

• Owned Payment Error Rate mitigation and led all SNAP Management Evaluation reviews and desk audits across Colorado's 64 counties, covering civil rights, EBT, fiscal compliance, program access, and program integrity for the $1B+ federally administered program.
• Served as the state's primary liaison to USDA Food and Nutrition Service; inherited an active Corrective Action Plan count trending down from a historical high near 50 and drove it from roughly 15 to under 5 across the 64-county network through targeted technical assistance, root-cause analysis, and disciplined federal-state engagement. Colorado's payment error rate fell under 6% during this tenure.
• Oversaw the day-to-day work of three SNAP Compliance staff and coordinated whistleblower and client-complaint investigations between federal partners and local county offices.
• Drafted decision memos and executive briefings on multi-layered federal regulation for senior state leadership, legislators, and federal officials.

Hunger Free Colorado

• Acted as Hunger Free Colorado's SNAP subject-matter expert on state statute and federal regulation, advising external partners and a statewide cohort of SNAP enrollment outreach workers funded by Kaiser Permanente.
• Oversaw the $300K, two-year Advancing Strategies to Align Programs (ASAP) grant from CLASP addressing administrative and operational barriers to food stamp access: ABAWD and E&T exemptions, county administration improvements, and CDHS churn methodology.
• Researched, designed, and wrote legislation that secured a $500K state line item for emergency food providers to purchase and distribute Colorado-grown produce, meat, and dairy; designed the annual SNAP Impact Reports covering all 64 Colorado counties.

Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano

• Managed an outreach team of three staff, six interns, and 20+ volunteers enrolling eligible clients in CalFresh across Contra Costa and Solano counties.
• Quadrupled outreach capacity from 45 direct applications per month in 2014 to 200+ in 2015 without adding staff, through workflow redesign and pilot deployment of Code for America's CalFresh enrollment tooling.
• Oversaw a countywide direct-mail campaign to 90,000+ eligible households, achieving a response rate exceeding industry averages.

Gary Community Ventures · Bailey, CO

• Invited as Propel's AI Safety Net Resident to an invite-only, three-day retreat convening senior state officials, funders, technologists, and nonprofit leaders around AI and public benefits (SNAP, Medicaid) modernization.
• Captained one of six working groups: "Resident Experience of Getting and Maintaining Benefits in a Time of Rapid Policy and Technology Change."
• Ongoing member of the post-retreat "Using AI to Ship Faster" cross-state working group with officials from Colorado, Oregon, and Maryland; shared Propel's AI-code-review governance framework to inform Colorado's incoming Chief AI Architect.
• Authored an independent Arizona SNAP caseload-decline case study at a fellow participant's request, called "the best explainer of what happened" by a peer analyst.

North American Food Systems Network. Strategic advisory role shaping national food systems policy and cross-sector innovation.

Advised on fraud prevention strategy and program integrity for state public assistance programs, working alongside county investigators, state administrators, and federal partners.