Alex Murshak - AI Engineer | RAG, MCP, AI Agents

About

I'm interested in how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.

I build systems for applying artificial intelligence to problems of governance.

I explore these themes through Hacking State, a podcast and newsletter where I write, speak and interview founders, researchers, artists, and intellectuals about technology's impact on society and power.

Education: B.A. Political Theory, Michigan State University

Experience

Currently building Lawgiver, an AI-native infrastructure for legislation and government affairs company. Our first product, CongressMCP, is a hosted open source MCP server for interrogating legislation through natural language, serving as an interoperable platform for reasoning about, searching, interpreting, and analyzing bills, laws, and congressional activity.

Previously, I was Head of Strategy at Dry.ai, leading go-to-market efforts and spearheading their Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption campaign.

Before that, I built AI systems as the solo engineer at The Diff, a tech and finance newsletter with over 50,000 subscribers, read by many hedge funds and finance professionals.

I started out at Venturit, a software consultancy, building applications for biomedical and first responders.