Michael Fesi builds financial infrastructure for the public sector. StatePay, StateFi, and StateChain are his answer to a problem he argues an audit cannot solve. Rather than catching the misuse of public money after the fact, the platforms are designed to make it structurally impossible, by making government payments programmable at the moment they move.
He grew up in the bayous of Louisiana, and frames the work around who carries the cost when public systems leak. Underserved communities and the middle class, he argues, deserve systems that protect them by design rather than by luck.
Alongside the technology he is writing a book and workbook on self-governance, on the premise that the discipline is the same at both scales: a leader who cannot recognise their own patterns is poorly placed to fix a system built on unexamined ones.
