I build AI systems and study how technology reshapes institutions. My work lives at the intersection of governance, legal infrastructure, and AI — giving agents structured access to the data and systems that run the public sphere. I'm interested in how technology changes our relationship to power, to each other, and to ourselves; everything here is downstream of that.

Political theorist by training, engineer by trade. I write at alexmurshak.com.

Lawgiver — AI-native infrastructure for legislation and legal research. Four projects came out of this work:

• Lawgiver Platform — The original MVP. An LLM-powered legislative intelligence tool for policy teams: plain-English Q&A over bills, sector alerts, and policy briefs. Django + Chroma RAG over the Congress.gov corpus.
• CongressMCP — An open-source MCP server exposing 90+ tools over the full Congress.gov API. Bills, votes, members, amendments, committees, hearings — queryable from Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.
• Hololex — A 3D spatial interface for exploring the structure of law. Thousands of legal provisions rendered as a navigable point cloud, clustered by topic, with cross-reference graphs and multiple layout modes.
• DAWatch — A directory of US district attorneys with real-time news monitoring. Searchable profiles, per-DA RSS feeds, individual detail pages, and social sharing. Built to make prosecutorial offices more accessible to the public.

Hacking State is my newsletter and interview podcast on technology, power, and the systems we live inside. Conversations with founders, researchers, and philosophers about doing more with less, pushing limitations, and finding gainful exploits at every level of the human operating system — from minds and bodies to tools, organizations, and governments.

In search of exploits.

• claude-code-core-workflow — An opinionated Claude Code setup: slash commands and specialized agents wiring Linear and GitHub into a single end-to-end dev loop.
• podbeanMCP — MCP server for the Podbean API.