Roanoke, Virginia

JC Overturf

Designing tools that serve real communities.

Navy veteran, library assistant, self-identified autistic, brain-injured.

I spent a long time in jobs that weren't built for how my brain works — before I knew why. A torsional brain injury in 2023 ended the trucking career I was on and broke forty years of masking. The autism surfaced. After that, I started building the things I'd needed all along and hadn't known to name.

What I've been making since then is a protocol framework for human-AI partnership, and a set of working tools for neurodivergent adults who need AI as assistive technology. The ADA doesn't actually have a category for what LLMs are. I've been drafting one.

What I'm building

SLOBSTAH Protocol
A 44,000-word open-source governance framework for human-AI partnership. Crew structure, economy, dignity framework. The constitution I wanted before I started building the agents underneath it.
Wayfinder Agent
A working AI agent I've been calling a "digital service dog" for neurodivergent adults. Seven modules. I built it because I needed it. The legal strategy is straightforward: use it, document it, file accommodation requests, defend denials, build case law.
Digital Accommodation Standard
A draft specification positioning LLMs as formal AAC devices under ADA, Section 504, and IDEA. This is the document I kept waiting for somebody else to write.
Wayfinder Medical
A free, no-paywall disability and accommodation resource hub. Built on a three-pass content pipeline I wrote that pulls from medical, cultural, and personal-voice sources to generate lived-experience condition pages — the kind a newly-identified reader could actually read without closing the tab depressed.
TheLifeNeurotic
Thirty-four essays on autism, brain injury, and late identification. Written in the voice I wish somebody had handed me at forty-nine. About 1,200 readers a month, sixteen pages per visit.
Scuttle Labs
The independent research lab I founded this year. It's where SLOBSTAH lives, and where everything above gets built.

Where to find me