Texas AI Docket

Built for the Lone Star State.

Texas AI Docket is a daily publication about artificial intelligence in Texas and an AI studio that builds for Texas businesses. One desk, two jobs.

What this is

AI is arriving in Texas the way oil and rail once did. As land. As load. As water rights. As filings nobody reads until the concrete is poured. The docket tracks those decisions one at a time with the source attached, so a Texan can see it coming.

The same desk runs a working AI studio. Agentic systems and digital employees. Paperwork engines and assistants trained on a company's own files. That work lives on the services page. Writing the beat every morning is exactly why the studio knows what actually pays.

Who runs it

Founded and run by Talon Sturgill, also lead AI engineer for a large lab serving enterprise clients. That expertise gets pointed at Texas businesses who rarely get access to it.

How the work gets verified

Every fact carries a claim id and traces to a document that was actually fetched. At least one source on every item has to be the filing or the statute or the agency itself rather than a story about it. Nothing enters the record without that. An item that can't be re-verified says so on its own page.

Every numeral is produced by code from data. A build gate fails on any figure that can't be traced to a computation. Where something is genuinely not public, the size of the gap gets published instead of an estimate.

What you can hold this desk to

Your outcome outranks the invoice. The recommendation is what this desk would do in your seat with its own money. Sometimes that is a smaller build than you asked about. Sometimes it is the honest no. You get the same answer either way.

Plain talk both directions. Bad news arrives early and in plain words. No soft version. No jargon fog. No risk buried in an appendix. Same expected back. A client who says it straight gets problems fixed while they are still small.

The build gets guarded even from the brief. Most AI projects die of enthusiasm. The wrong first system built too big on data that was not ready. Watching that happen across an industry every morning is how you learn where the road washes out. When the exciting ask and the right build disagree, you will hear about it. That judgement is most of what you are paying for.

Nobody chases this desk. A note gets a reply inside one business day and usually sooner. A person reads everything and the machines are on shift around the clock.

Where to find it

The record, the articles and the videos live here. For the studio, start at services.