Zach Bookman

Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, OpenGov · 0 appearances on the record.

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In 2012, Bookman co-founded OpenGov to provide cloud software to state and local governments, scaling it until its acquisition by Cox Enterprises in 2024. Before launching the company, he clerked on the Ninth Circuit and advised General H.R. McMaster's Anti-Corruption Task Force in Kabul, Afghanistan.

0statements → 0claims → 3claims resolved → 0%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 2.54/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources →

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Zach argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.5 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.7 · precision 4.3 · compression 3.8

answered every one of 23 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. We have 11,519 words of Zach Bookman, and that is not enough to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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