AI for Wisconsin Full Technology Program Funding Plan

AI for Wisconsin - Full Technology Program Funding Plan
AI for Wisconsin Full Technology Program

Proposed public fundraising goal: $150,000

Committee: Korey Streich Campaign Committee

Registered committee locator: Wisconsin Sunshine registrant 1148727

Status: Draft public funding plan pending treasurer and campaign-finance review

Date: July 25, 2026

What this goal means: The $150,000 figure is a maximum campaign technology-program budget, not a promise that every dollar will be spent and not an automatic payment to Five Letter Agency. Contributions are made to the Korey Streich Campaign Committee under ordinary campaign-finance limits and source restrictions. The Committee remains responsible for approving and reporting every obligation and disbursement.

The tangible result

The goal is to build, publish, launch, and operate a complete open-source prototype of the civic architecture AI for Wisconsin proposes to demonstrate:

a public AI representative that can explain, listen, prepare actions, and connect people to deterministic campaign services without itself becoming the legal decision-maker;

an accessible campaign website where residents can inspect sources, goals, commitments, proposals, polls, receipts, results, and public audit records;

a deterministic Campaign Core for identity, consent, goals, outreach, proposals, ballots, approvals, finance boundaries, and append-only evidence;

Know Your Neighbor, a privacy-minimizing civic identity and credential system that can verify specific eligibility, geography, membership, and expertise claims without building a central political dossier;

auditable polling with immutable rules, separate local/statewide/expert/affected-community tallies, one-person/one-ballot within each constituency, private ballots, receipts, and independently reproducible results;

self-hosted and reproducible infrastructure with encrypted storage, backups, recovery, monitoring, and open deployment materials;

open-source software, schemas, policies, public verifier tools, security documentation, and implementation records; and

independent legal, security, privacy, cryptographic, and accessibility review support before consequential use.

Why $150,000 rather than the earlier prototype figure

The earlier scope priced only a bounded build, web launch, hosting, and basic operations package. The actual architecture contains a complete campaign operating system and a separate KYN identity/polling program. It includes authority services, public interfaces, connectors, privacy controls, cryptographic and audit paths, accessibility, abuse testing, recovery, open-source publication, and ongoing operations.

The goal also contains reserves for third-party providers, hardware, community pilots, independent review, security incidents, vendor changes, and approved system amendments. Those reserves are what make it possible to state one public ceiling rather than repeatedly increasing the target.

Proposed allocation

Cumulative public milestones

$25,000 - Public foundation

hardened campaign infrastructure and recovery foundation;

continued operation of the current public AI representative;

public campaign website delivery and legal/operator separation;

initial Campaign Core authority, consent, and audit foundation;

open-source baseline and public progress record.

$50,000 - Campaign operating system

complete Hermes public, steward, and automation boundaries;

knowledge, source, memory, goals, outreach, connector, approval, and transparency workflows;

accessible account, participation, proposal, and public-ledger interfaces;

deterministic confirmation and receipt patterns for consequential actions.

$80,000 - Know Your Neighbor pilot

separate KYN Trust Core, claims, attestations, challenges, appeals, credentials, and recovery;

privacy-limited evidence and verifier controls;

trusted-verifier falsification pilot with seeded duplicate, collusion, recovery, and exclusion cases;

published methodology and redacted pilot findings.

$110,000 - Verified polling and public audit

immutable poll manifests and separate constituencies;

credential-based eligibility and one-person authorization;

isolated ballot handling, replacement rules, receipts, challenges, and deterministic tallies;

public audit packages and independent verifier tools;

district, municipality, affected-community, and expertise credential support.

$135,000 - Statewide hardening and independent review

stronger unlinkability and verifiable-voting evaluation;

load, denial-of-service, insider, correlation, recovery, and failover exercises;

independent legal, security, privacy, cryptographic, and accessibility review;

remediation and consequential-use readiness record.

$150,000 - Operations and no-upward-revision reserve

up to twelve active months of managed operations;

provider, backup, voice, model, messaging, and monitoring capacity;

incident, vendor-change, scale, and approved system-amendment reserve;

orderly transition, archive, or closeout without making a later emergency fundraising increase the default plan.

Milestones are cumulative program priorities, not donor-restricted accounts. The Committee may sequence expenditures according to security, legal, acceptance, and operational gates while keeping the public ceiling fixed.

Related-party transparency

Five Letter Agency is a sole proprietorship of candidate Korey Streich and is the proposed technical vendor. The public plan should therefore disclose:

the related-party relationship prominently;

the prospective, non-retroactive contract;

the fixed $72,000 implementation ceiling and milestone schedule;

the separate $12,000 operations ceiling;

the fact that $66,000 of the goal remains Committee-controlled for direct costs, independent review, pilots, and contingency rather than being guaranteed to FLA;

treasurer or independent acceptance before each payment;

actual invoices, obligations, payments, credits, and milestone evidence at an appropriate public level; and

the treatment of earlier work as Background Material, volunteer activity, or separately reported in-kind value rather than a backdated debt.

Campaign, Party Party, and KYN separation

This campaign goal funds the Committee's lawful use of the AI for Wisconsin system and its fair share of campaign-relevant KYN/polling services. It does not fund:

Party Party Patreon, merchandise, advertising, sponsorship, or general commerce;

unrelated uspartyparty.com development;

unrelated Five Letter Agency products;

personal expenses or general office overhead;

voting power, credential status, or access purchased by donors or patrons; or

a future government system after the campaign without a new lawful public arrangement.

A Party Party-operated KYN portal may serve the campaign only under conspicuous operator, privacy, financial, and campaign-relationship disclosures, and with separate data and authority boundaries.

Public donation-page language

Suggested headline

Help build Wisconsin's open-source AI-governance prototype

Suggested concise description

AI for Wisconsin is raising up to $150,000 to build and operate a complete open-source civic platform: a public AI representative, transparent campaign operating system, privacy-preserving Know Your Neighbor identity and credential service, auditable local and statewide polling, public verification tools, secure self-hosted infrastructure, and independent legal, security, privacy, and accessibility review.

The goal is a ceiling, not an automatic expenditure. Five Letter Agency, owned by candidate Korey Streich, is a disclosed related-party technical vendor and can be paid only under a prospective, milestone-based contract approved by the campaign treasurer and reviewed for campaign-finance compliance. Donations do not buy platform authority, credential status, extra votes, access to private data, or influence over official tallies.

Suggested use-of-funds disclosure

Contributions are made to the Korey Streich Campaign Committee, not to Five Letter Agency or The Party Party. The Committee will publish the program budget, milestone status, accepted deliverables, related-party payments, direct provider costs, and material changes at an appropriate level, subject to donor privacy, participant privacy, cybersecurity, and campaign-finance requirements.

Controls before launch

Before this funding plan is published as an operative campaign budget:

1. The treasurer approves the program budget and related-party payment controls.

2. The Committee obtains written Wisconsin Ethics Commission advice or qualified Wisconsin campaign-finance counsel review of the candidate-owned vendor relationship and solicitation language.

3. The master SOW identifies the exact existing-work baseline and does not backdate obligations.

4. The Committee verifies its reporting status, contribution controls, and recordkeeping.

5. FLA and the Committee adopt the milestone acceptance, IP, open-source, direct-cost, privacy, security, and operations schedules.

6. No protected KYN, donor, finance, or ballot data is admitted before its corresponding acceptance gate.

Pricing perspective

The program combines software engineering, systems architecture, web/interface work, information security, privacy engineering, infrastructure operations, testing, documentation, and public-service design. Federal labor data reports May 2024 median annual wages of $133,080 for software developers, $124,910 for information security analysts, and $95,380 for web developers and digital designers. The proposed $72,000 fixed implementation fee covers a multi-disciplinary open-source program and is therefore intentionally below ordinary replacement cost; it should still be independently reviewed because the vendor is candidate-owned.

Current hosted services are also usage-based rather than free merely because much of the system is self-hosted. For example, Vercel's Pro plan begins at $20 per month before overage, ElevenLabs plans relevant to production voice range from $22 to $99 per month before greater scale, and model APIs charge by use. The $18,000 direct-cost reserve protects against growth, redundancy, backups, messaging, voice, and provider changes without converting every vendor fluctuation into a new fundraising goal.

Final recommendation

Adopt $150,000 as the maximum public AI for Wisconsin technology-program goal. Do not describe the full amount as FLA's fee. Publish it as a transparent campaign budget with cumulative milestones, a $72,000 prospective implementation contract ceiling, a $12,000 operations ceiling, independent-review and direct-cost reserves, and a $20,000 contingency that can absorb foreseeable upgrades without moving the goal upward.