Madison, WI — English / Español

Cruz Romero Morales

Some work never makes the record — tips, translations, night shifts. I build systems that see it. Then I hand over the keys.

Open a door ↓ Book time
abre una puerta

Every door on this street is something I built — this one is just me, holding it open.

Three doors, one builder.

$80M+in grants — my data and maps
$150M+in LIHTC applications I mapped
125tracts mapped, block by block
11doors standing open on this street
EN·ESevery page here, twice

Housing figures are from my data-and-maps role on a team, years before TresPies.

Las Puertas

Every project is a door

Six kinds of work. The map is just the shape of the street before you walk it; filter by any one.

Six clusters, one builder — the Puertas constellation A hub at center represents the builder; six clusters orbit it, each sized by how many anchor projects it holds and colored in its own segment of the spectrum. AI orchestration infrastructure, in sun gold, top: Gateway, dag-essentials-mcp, kata-harness, ke engine and editions — 4 anchors. Worker-economy apps, in ember orange, upper right: Night Shift, Throughline, Kata — 3 anchors. Equity data and civic, in red, lower right, the largest cluster: Madison Equity Atlas, Policy Data Infrastructure, Community Data Lab — 3 anchors. Knowledge and discovery, in cyan, bottom: Knowledge Editions, madeofdoors, Drift, Nostr/Soapbox — 4 anchors. Games and creative builds, in lime, lower left: Pyramid Arcade, ke-party-platform, the mythos-builds trio, Ceniza — 4 anchors. Writing and research pipeline, in teal, upper left, the smallest cluster: EIT, the content pipeline, notes and essays — 3 anchors. LAS PUERTAS, AGRUPADAS Six clusters, one builder. 4 ANCHORS AI INFRA WORKER ECONOMY 3 ANCHORS EQUITY + CIVIC 3 ANCHORS KNOWLEDGE 4 ANCHORS GAMES + CREATIVE 4 ANCHORS WRITING 3 ANCHORS THE SIX, IN FULL AI orchestration infrastructure Gateway, dag-essentials-mcp, kata-harness, ke editions Worker-economy apps Night Shift, Throughline, Kata Equity data + civic Madison Equity Atlas, PDI, Community Data Lab Knowledge + discovery Knowledge Editions, madeofdoors, Drift, Nostr/Soapbox Games + creative builds Pyramid Arcade, ke-party, mythos-builds, Ceniza Writing + research pipeline EIT, content pipeline, notes & essays
Six clusters, sized by how many projects anchor them. Filter the street below by any one.
  • closed — still building
  • ajar — shipped
  • open — live

AI orchestration infra

Worker-economy apps

Equity data + civic

Knowledge + discovery

Games + creative

  • The Pyramid Arcade live
  • HTMLCraftStudio building
  • Mythos builds building
  • Ceniza hatching soon

Writing + research

En Obra

Now building

The ajar doors, up close. I build in public on purpose — the work shows long before a door swings open.

  • ThroughlineAlready in people's hands, so every fix ships straight into their day.
  • CenizaHatching soon.
  • Driftv0.1 works. Now I'm teaching it taste, which is the harder half.
  • Mythos buildsSkipped a repo on its own last night — it was my unfinished PR.
  • HTMLCraftStudioIt's basically done. What's left is just picking the number for 1.0.
  • kata-harnessv0.1.2 published — first bug was a timezone, as always.

Escritura

Writing

Essays, mostly — on building, verification, and who a system is actually for. English for now; the Spanish versions are coming.

All writing

Lo Que Aporto

What I bring

One toolkit, very different rooms.

Technical

  • Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript — shipped products in each
  • Cloudflare Workers / Pages / D1, PWA architecture, MCP servers
  • ArcGIS / QGIS spatial analysis; parametric CAD
  • Design and production across the Adobe suite

Language

  • English / Spanish — written and spoken fluency, both directions
  • High-stakes translation — legal, medical, civic. Rooms where a wrong word costs something.
  • Cross-cultural facilitation; bilingual community visioning sessions

Research & Grants

  • Grant and LIHTC application support — the two dollar figures at the top of this page are this row's receipts
  • Spatial equity analysis — tract- and school-level mapping
  • Qualitative research; policy writing with the citation attached

Human-Centered

  • Crisis de-escalation — applied skill, direct experience
  • Trauma-informed, person-centered — de-escalated in real rooms, not case-study slides
  • Group facilitation — students, workshops, peer mentoring

Ambiciones

Where this is headed

I'm most alive when a technical problem and a human one turn out to be the same problem. A dataset that proves what the neighborhood already knew. An app that lands in the hands of someone who assumed it wasn't for them. That overlap — that's the work.

I don't know what the biggest door on this street looks like yet. Maybe it isn't built. Maybe it's one of these, three years deeper. I keep laying pavement anyway.

  • 01

    Build technology and research for the communities tech and research have historically skipped.

  • 02

    Every deliverable hands the data back to the people it describes. Not as a value on a page — as the last step of the build. That part doesn't move.

  • 03

    Keep the AI infrastructure open source — the kind anyone can audit, not just cite.

Agenda un espacio

Book time with me

My calendar is self-serve — take whatever fits. English o español; bring a project, a question, or nothing at all.

30 minutes

Intro & discovery

A first conversation, no agenda needed. Half-formed ideas do fine here — so does showing up with nothing but a question. Open anytime, day or night.

Book 30 min

60 minutes

Working session

Sleeves rolled up for working-session time — scoping a build, walking through the research, or sharing a screen until the problem gives a little. Daytime hours.

Book 60 min

Prefer email? [email protected]  •  (608) 770-0472  •  Madison, WI  •  trespiesdesign.com