Rob Gaudet — Architect. Builder. Cajun Navy founder. Writing about AI, disaster response, and Louisiana.
The Meta data center is coming to Louisiana. But what happens when the construction is done and the cranes leave?
Read essay →A platform built to solve the chaos of home health care coordination — and the story of why I named it Lilah.
Read essay →On August 14, 2016, I watched a man on WBRZ lose everything on live television. The next morning I started dispatching boats from a Facebook group.
Read essay →In August 2016, ordinary people coordinated their own rescue operation through the phones in their pockets. Ten years later, emergency management still hasn’t built the bridge.
Read essay →Louisiana culture doesn't just travel — it colonizes. Here's what that means for the future.
Read essay →The mistake every city makes when trying to build a startup ecosystem — and what actually works.
Read essay →Louisiana shows up twice in the name of the world's most transformative technology. There's a reason for that.
Read essay →One week ago I installed OpenClaw on my laptop and started texting an AI. What followed was the most jaw-dropping week of my 30-year career.
Read essay →Disasters follow patterns. Our response to them shouldn't be improvised every single time.
Read essay →What 20+ disaster deployments taught me about designing systems under pressure.
Read essay →The people most at risk in the next disaster aren't who you think — and they're invisible to most systems.
Read essay →Louisiana has never just been where I’m from — it’s the foundation of everything I’ve built, learned, and given back.
Read essay →We keep treating disasters like logistics problems. They're not. They're human crises.
Read essay →The real answer to who runs disaster response in America — and why it matters.
Read essay →In disaster response, Plan A fails constantly. Here's how to design for that reality from the start.
Read essay →For years, I’ve lived at the intersection of crisis and code. Now I’m bringing it all here — raw, real, and unfiltered.
Read essay →The pattern is clear: the builders who changed the world were engineers first.
Read essay →During Hurricane Harvey, our systems were actively targeted by bad actors. Here's what happened.
Read essay →Technology isn't replacing human compassion in disaster response — it's multiplying it.
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