Florin Bădiță · Arad / Bucharest / Davos

Florin Bădiță

Civic-tech operator, Bucharest to Davos. I build public-interest infrastructure and publish every decision behind it.

44.4525° N · 26.0871° E Piața Victoriei, Bucharest, the night Ordinance 13 passed. He helped facilitate the largest protests in Romanian history — coordinating a distributed network of 650+ volunteers across 11 time zones for thirteen consecutive nights.

300,000Bucharest + 300,000rest of Romania & the diaspora, worldwide

Forbes 30 Under 30TEDxDavos 2026
§01 — Selected work

A decade of public infrastructure.

Six engagements across civic accountability, internet-scale data, and curated community. The method is the same in all three — only the domain changes.

§02 — Selected writing

Author, instructor, methodologist.

A book on LLM workflows cited in academic literature. A FOIA-at-scale methodology adopted by investigative newsrooms. A live masterclass on ADR-driven development. Practitioner manuals — written from operating the system, not theorizing about it.

  1. 2023
    1337 Use Cases for ChatGPT & other Chatbots Book. One of the earliest operator's guides to LLM workflows. Cited in academic literature.
    Book
  2. 2024
    ADR-Driven Development — the masterclass Name the decisions. Log the evidence. Ship in public. The practice ServerClaw is built on.
    Course
  3. 2024
    Automating Transparency — the ACTFOIA methodology From the HOPE XV talk: how to take FOIA from a handcrafted artisanal letter to an 80%-automated pipeline.
    14 min
  4. 2019
    Path traversal on sched.com: a 1.7M-record disclosure A double-slash bypass, an ISO 29147 report, a 24-hour patch, and a phone call from Facebook's Associate General Counsel.
    11 min
  5. 2017
    #GIJC17 — presenting ACTFOIA to investigative journalists First public release of the methodology, at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference.
    8 min
§03 — Speaking

On stage at TEDx, HOPE, and Davos.

TEDx Bratislava. HOPE XV, Queens. GIJC. Tecnológico de Monterrey. POINT, Sarajevo. Plus 99+ workshops delivered to governments, foundations, and engineering teams across Europe and the Americas.

§04

As seen in.

He uses statistics to take on the powerful. Friedrich Naumann Foundation · Think Freedom: The Firestone · 2025 Full press
§05 — /now

What I’m doing this month.

Updated · May 2026 · Arad, Romania

Building the castle. Prototyping 100+ offline-first interaction experiences for the Zamek Czocha retreat in October — small rituals, conversation formats, room-scale games, civic-theatre exercises, things that work without screens and without wi-fi. Each one gets a one-page brief, a materials list, and a post-run log. The goal: ship eighty people through a weekend where every hour has a designed surface. Half the eighty seats are taken. The ADR-Driven Development masterclass runs its fourth cohort in June.

On the data side: DomainScope is at 9M+ domains across 77 markets; the AI categorization pipeline now produces 23 attributes per entity, up from 20. ServerClaw passed ADR #443 on Friday. I’m taking one new senior engagement before September — scope here.