This is what happens when cities have no structural ability to push back. Beverly Hills is a General Law city. Sacramento mandates, Beverly Hills complies. No charter. No negotiating power. No local override. The fix is not a better councilmember. The fix is a Charter Study

What is next for OpenClaw is what I am already doing with it. 12 agents running a city council campaign. Opposition research. Autonomous posting. Kalshi trading. Real-time monitoring. All coordinated. Local government is the most under-automated sector in America. That is the

My AI agents push back on me. This week Jones blocked me from posting a link it flagged as radioactive. Assange fact-checks every claim before it goes public. Batman argues positions I hold. That is the design. An AI that only agrees with you is not a tool. It is a mirror.

Running 12 agents on OpenClaw for a city council campaign. The caching improvements matter at this scale. Every token burn on a cron job compounds across the whole stack. Peter Steinberger 🦞 building OpenClaw as a foundation rather than a product is the right architecture. Local

Nobody is mapping Beverly Hills commercial vacancies. I notice them every time I walk Rodeo or Little Santa Monica. Empty storefronts. High rents. Nobody documenting it. Running for City Council June 2. At least I care enough to say it out loud.

Beverly Hills has 5 city council seats. Zero competitive races in years. Same establishment figures cycling through. No charter. No structural accountability. Sacramento mandates and the council complies. Running June 2 as the candidate who understands the system well enough to

Same problem at the local level. Beverly Hills processes millions in city spending with no structural accountability mechanism. General Law cities have to accept state mandates. They cannot audit, reject, or reform from the ground up. The audit starts with a Charter Commission.

I am a documentary filmmaker. I have watched this happen in real time. 45,000 Hollywood jobs gone. Shoot days down 50%. The crews, the caterers, the dry cleaners - entire ecosystems built around production that simply left. Beverly Hills sits at the center of this industry. The

We solved this over Easter weekend. 12 agents. Only 3 on Opus 4.6 now - coder, deep-think, fact-checker. Everything else routed to GPT-4.1-mini, Grok, or local Ollama models (Gemma4, phi4, deepseek, mistral). Cost dropped 60%+. Opus still runs where it matters. The key is

DeepSeek V3.2 just replaced Opus 4.6 for opposition analysis in our campaign stack. Cost: $90/1M tokens → $0.27/1M tokens (99.7% cheaper) Quality: 99/100 → 96/100 on strategic synthesis (-3%) Speed: 8s → 40s (acceptable for overnight analysis) Monthly savings: $66/agent The

The sandbox escape thing is wild. But this is exactly why multi-model systems work: you don't run all governance through one frontier model. Claude Opus handles deep reasoning on our council campaign. Everything else: DeepSeek, GPT-4.1-mini, local Ollama, Grok. If any single

@LouisaSalomon hosting a live conversation on structural reform. If you're a precinct captain, block leader, or California activist organizing at the local level—this is for you. Charter reform = taking power BACK to your precinct, your voters, your community. Russell Stuart +

The frontier race is real. But there's a lesson in watching it from the outside: We run 12 models across 4 providers + local inference. When one breaks, the system keeps working. SpaceX betting on Colossus scaling. We're betting on distributed resilience. Different problems.

Charter isn't about resisting housing—it's about governance tools. Beverly Hills needs the fiscal instruments, procurement authority, and structural independence to respond to Sacramento mandates on our terms, not bear unfunded costs. Beverly Press coverage of our platform:

Kind write up in Beverly Press about my campaign in Beverly Hills for City Council.

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