Joël McClurg

Gavelin

• 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.

• Led H.R.1 research and analysis, translating the law's work-requirement provisions into state-by-state operational and fiscal impact.
• Built an H.R.1 impact estimator covering every U.S. city and county, plus public dashboards tracking caseload declines and payment error rate trends.
• Produced AI-integration roadmaps for nonprofit and philanthropic clients, translating frontier-model capability into operational deployment plans for social service 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 payment error rate mitigation, advocating for the administrative staffing increases the state needed to sustain compliance gains.
• Drove statewide 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 a Colorado policy designed primarily as a payment error rate reduction mechanism by simplifying utility allowance verification.
• Administered a $350K grant piloting co-enrollment across three benefit programs, 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 management evaluation reviews and desk audits across Colorado's counties, covering civil rights, benefit delivery, fiscal compliance, program access, and program integrity for the $1B+ federal program.
• Served as the state's primary liaison to the federal regulator; 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 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 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.

Gary Community Ventures · Bailey, CO

• Invited as Propel's AI Resident to an invite-only, three-day retreat convening senior state officials, funders, technologists, and nonprofit leaders around AI and public benefits modernization.