Government Technology · AI Governance · Local-First AI

Patrick Yaeger

I'm a Senior Applications Analyst and the primary lead for Louisville Metro's citywide Smartsheet Control Center and PPM environment, working through Insight Global. I design and support low-code systems that connect operational needs with approvals, exception handling, audit trails, accessibility and user enablement. Independently, I build Frontier to explore how personal AI can remain useful, governable and under human authority.

RoleSenior Applications Analyst
PracticePublic-sector solution architecture
CraftSmartsheet Control Center · PPM
IndependentSovereign & local-first AI

What I do

Public-Sector Solution Architecture

I lead Louisville Metro's citywide Smartsheet Control Center and PPM environment, connecting operational requirements with sustainable low-code workflows, governance, accessibility and adoption.

AI Governance

I explore responsible-use frameworks, policy, human oversight, and practical controls for putting AI to work — with public-sector realities such as records, accessibility, procurement, privacy, security, and public trust kept in view.

Sovereign & Local-First AI

Through my independent Frontier project, I explore local models, retrieval over personal knowledge, model-agnostic orchestration, and zero-trust architecture — with governance and human authority designed into the system.

Enablement & Translation

A background in the arts, teaching, and libraries shapes how I work: translating complex systems into tools, documentation, and practices that people can actually understand and use.

Citywide portfolio systems. I provisioned every new program and project as the portfolio grew from one program to fourteen, built the Metro PPM portal, and lead phased modernization of governance and estate controls.

AI and user enablement. I built Smarty, an M365 Copilot advisory agent for Smartsheet, Power BI, accessibility testing and documentation, and prepare training on well-governed solutions and how to build them.

Independent project

myfrontierai.com

Frontier

My principal independent AI research and engineering project: a governed personal AI ecosystem exploring how local models, persistent knowledge, external intelligence, tools, and agents can extend human capability without surrendering human authority.

Frontier is designed around local capability, model-agnostic intelligence, explicit delegation, zero-trust boundaries, provenance, auditability, reversibility, and human judgment. I document selected architecture, experiments, principles, and lessons as the system evolves; dated capability evidence distinguishes governing requirements from verified implementation.

Frontier is governed by The Frontier Constitution, a public charter for sovereign, human-directed personal AI. Version 1.0 is the frozen public release; its constitutional text is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Urlicht remains my governing source.

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