Frustrated with hunting for information on political candidates, Ben Torres Ezrick set out to build a one-stop shop for voters.

To wrangle data on thousands of candidates, the tech veteran turned to artificial intelligence. He sent out teams of digital agents across the web to build the dossiers that populate his website, the Ballot Brief.

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