Origin
Union carpenter's son, first in family to build open-source civic tools.
Sean J. Carpenter for President
Build a Republic that Codes for Everyone.
Sean is a civic technologist-turned-governor running on a neo-brutalist honesty—pairing bold climate action with practical economic guarantees. His campaign blends asymmetric community labs with transparent digital town halls.
Novel Pledge
Federal Civic Coding Corps that deploys broadband, data ethics, and local apprenticeships.
Neo-brutalist duotone rally poster
Field teams: 172 cities live
50K+
Community technologists pledged for Civic Coding Corps.
92%
Clean-grid coverage goal by 2030 with Heat Shield bonds.
3
National experimental micro-cities prototyped for housing equity.
$400B
Public digital dividend funded by AI patent commons.
Prosperity without Permission.
Sean proposes a Constitutional Transparency Amendment requiring public code review for federal AI, and a Neighborhood Heat Shield program deploying reflective canopies, geothermal loops, and union labor in frontline communities.
Federal Civic Tech Lab Network.
Each state hosts a modular lab where apprentices pair with data ethicists to audit infrastructure maps, patch supply chains, and open-source their fixes back to municipalities.
Tri-Sector Coalition Builder.
Small-town mayors, tribal chairpersons, and cooperatives receive rotating seats on a People's Ledger board guiding stimulus deployment.
Field Ops Command.
Tabbed workspace syncs canvassing, policy, and rapid-response fact sheets so volunteers can contrast Sean's novel guarantees against status-quo politics in seconds.
Tech Commons Dividend
Redirects 5% of federal tech procurement into a citizen dividend whenever public data fuels private AI patents.
Climate Guild Service Year
One paid service year for every 18-year-old installing microgrids, with tuition credits tied to performance.
Equal-Time Media Ledger
An independent algorithmic auditor that rates debate airtime equity and fines networks that launder disinfo.
Care Infrastructure Index
A public dashboard benchmarking childcare, eldercare, and caregiver wages before approving federal zoning waivers.
Civic IP Vault
Communities can patent co-designed solutions; licensing revenue flows back into local participatory budgets.
Clean Steel Accords
Union-built hydrogen steel hubs with carbon contracts-for-difference to keep manufacturing onshore.
Roadmap to a Responsive Republic
Q2 2024 · Prototype Labs
Launches pilot Civic Coding Corps squads in Detroit, Boise, and Tulsa.
Q3 2024 · Heat Shield Bonds
Issues municipal micro-bonds funding reflective roofing, desert agriculture R&D, and union training.
Election Year · Policy Sprints
48-hour open sprint cycles invite residents to rewrite agency rules and vote them up for federal review.
Join the Experiment in Radical Transparency.
Every volunteer receives live dashboards, door-to-door scripts, and encrypted chat so misinformation never outruns the truth.