Próspera · Public Policy · Software
Designing the systems that let human progress compound.
I'm Trey Goff — institutional designer, public-policy economist, and builder of software and AI tooling. Chief of staff at Próspera, curious to a fault, hunting for the largest lever I can pull.
Ways in
Writing
Essays and field notes on governance, technology, faith, and building.
Projects
Websites, CLI & agent tooling, policy initiatives, and Próspera.
Library
A few hundred books, mapped four ways — a constellation of everything I've read.
About
Mississippi roots, a cosmopolitan orbit, and what I'm chasing.
Selected work
Across websites, tooling, policy, and Próspera.
The Control Room
Build a command-palette-first site that ties essays, notes, books, and a knowledge graph into one place.
Próspera
Public affairs and governance for the world's most ambitious charter city — from first employee to chief of staff.
Harness & command-line tools
Tinkering at the frontier of what's possible with AI — harnesses and tools for working alongside agents.
Governance experiments
Turning institutional experiments into legible, repeatable models others can adopt.
Featured essays
All writing →The Claims Ledger: What Survived Contact With the Record
Every claim made in a three-hour interview about NASA and Apollo photography, numbered, timestamped, and worked to a public verdict — laid along the interview’s own clock.
How I Became a Christian
A rationalist's journey to faith—from southern Baptist childhood to angry atheism to genuine belief.
Peer-Reviewed Academic Paper on Prospera Governance
A peer-reviewed paper on the history, formation, and governance structure of Honduras's first ZEDE.