Rob Gordon
Hello! I am a creative technologist and researcher exploring the frontiers of humans-doing-things-togetherness. I develop software at the intersection of AI, coordination, digital democracy, and tools for thought. I firmly believe we can improve our planet and what it means to live here with technology that helps us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and how we relate to each other.
Background
My first passion was music. I studied composition at California Institute of the Arts while teaching myself to code on the side. I entered software development through the side door, coding sound/installations for performance art and new media works while living in Berlin. I moved to New York in 2017 and built websites for nonprofits at Constructive. Then I moved to Montreal, where I developed software for AI researchers at MILA. By chance I was pulled into forecasting and prediction markets at Goodheart Labs. Working with Nathan (GL) during the AI for Human Reasoning Fellowship, we co-produced the first AI-written community note on X. In late 2025 I received a grant from the Future of Life Foundation for coordination research that led me to where I work now— BRKT Labs, a small research group exploring AI-mediated collaboration and healthier social fabric.
Projects
Tools I actively maintain — spanning diagramming, visualization, and group coordination.
TeamSort — Instant polls for prioritizing tasks and making group decisions. No login required.
Flowchart Fun — The fastest text-to-flowchart tool on the web. Maintained since 2021.
Docugram — Upload a document, get an editable diagram.
Many things have been built and retired over the years. These are the ones I'm actively maintaining. The rest is on GitHub.
Things I'm Reading
Let Cities Build Utopia — Elle Griffin / Elysian Collective · Companies have built more beautiful cities than Hong Kong. Investors have funded a better quality of life than Shenzhen. What if cities could build utopia?
Adaptive Democracy · A framework for governance that can actually keep up with the rate things change.
Get in touch
If you're working on coordination, collective intelligence, deliberative process, or anything nearby — I'd like to hear from you.