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.
The Setup
→The field manual for how I work with AI — context, agents, workflows, and the partnership underneath it all. Co-authored with Claude.
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 Goodhart Civilization
78 minEverything got worse after 2010 for one reason: markets stopped selling us things we value and started optimizing the dopamine system itself. Goodhart's Law at civilizational scale — the diagnosis, the receipts, and the only way out.
The Claims Ledger: What Survived Contact With the Record
5 minEvery 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
16 minA rationalist's journey to faith—from southern Baptist childhood to angry atheism to genuine belief.