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Camino
Health, education, and community center programs serving Charlotte's Latino population, using the model to map heat exposure for clinic outreach zones.
Builder · Charlotte, NC
Building spatial AI for the homes, cities, and small businesses around us.
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May 2026At a Glance
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0Partner organizations using Charlotte Canopy
0K+Trees in the Charlotte Canopy network
0K+Charlotte residents reached
Consumer AI · iOS Beta
Modera
modera.studio ↗An AI 3D interior design platform for homeowners. Scan a room with an iPhone, prompt a style, and generate furniture-accurate design variations in seconds. Built on Apple's native renderer, with a unit economics target that lets the consumer flow stay close to free.
Currently in closed beta with the next cohort of homeowners moving from waitlist to TestFlight.
0waitlist signups
0active beta users
0solo founder
Backed by
Urban Heat · Live Deployment
Charlotte Canopy
charlottecanopy.org ↗
A browser-based urban heat island simulator for Charlotte. Planners, neighborhood leaders, and nonprofits open the heatmap, draw an intervention like a new park or a roof change, and see the cooling delta in under a second. Same XGBoost model as the OpenUSD desktop platform, now reachable from any phone in the field.
Since launch the simulation has moved from prototype to active use. Six organizations across research, neighborhood advocacy, housing, and urban forestry are now using or evaluating the dataset.
Free & Open
No install, no signup. Any browser, any device.
Live Predictions
Draw a park or change a roof, see the cooling delta in under a second.
Downloadable Data
All 255,760 cells exportable as CSV or GeoJSON.
Launched Partners
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McCrorey Heights Neighborhood Association
Historically Black middle-class enclave founded in 1912, on the National Register of Historic Places since 2017, using heat data to prioritize tree-canopy advocacy with the city.
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West Blvd Neighborhood Coalition
Coalition representing Reid Park, Wilmore, Wesley Heights, and adjacent neighborhoods along the West Blvd corridor, identifying intervention priorities.
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Roof Above
Charlotte's largest homelessness nonprofit, formed from the Urban Ministry Center and Men's Shelter merger in 2020, layering heat data on outreach routes to flag dangerous days.
Newest Launch
TreesCharlotte · 50,000+ trees planted since 2013
Partnership confirmed with the Director of Programs, the Urban Forest Educator, and the Community Engagement Manager. TreesCharlotte uses the platform to data-optimize where they direct planting and to power urban forestry education programming, pairing the existing 50K+ planted trees with model-prioritized future-planting blocks.
In Progress · Referral
UNC Charlotte professor-led citizen heat-mapping campaign, referred by TreesCharlotte's Director of Programs, currently evaluating their volunteer-collected ground-truth dataset alongside the ECOSTRESS-derived predictions for cross-validation.
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Operations AI · Pilot
Truckside
truckside.co ↗
A voice ordering automation system for food trucks, running local inference on-truck with card-only payments and a transparent hardware-at-cost plus software subscription model. The first pilot is wrapping at a Charlotte truck this month, with paid non-family contracts targeted next.
Status · First pilot in progress, Charlotte NC
Research Affiliation
Duke University
Research affiliation at Duke under Daniel Egger — Executive in Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs at the Pratt School of Engineering, who helped organize Duke's Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science program.
Education
Schools
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Current, junior
UNC Charlotte
Coursework, no degree
Central Piedmont Community College
Coursework, no degree
First Tech Challenge · Worlds Competitor
FTC scoring assistance tool
A real-time computer vision system that watches an FTC DECODE field through a single overhead camera and scores each alliance's ramp automatically — counting classified versus overflow ball crossings as they happen.
When the system fires it is almost always correct. The open work is recall: cluster handling on the gate and overflow lines. The metrics below are measured across four labeled match clips.
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0%event recall
0.00F1 score
Recent Competitions
- FTC World Championship2nd Place Connect Award · April 2026
- TSA NationalsGeospatial Technology · June 2026
- FBLA Business PlanTop 10 States · March 2026