Jess Bellissimo

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I'm building tools to make government more transparent and efficient for citizens and small businesses. These projects live under GreenLights Civic Tech — focused on Huntington, NY → NYC → New York State.

GreenLights Civic Tech Portfolio

Live

Making NYC Transparent

The umbrella brand and portfolio landing page for all civic tech projects. Showcases the vision of using technology to bring transparency and efficiency to local government services.

Bolt.new
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Congressional Transparency Scorecard

Live

Congressional Stock Trading Transparency

Scores members of Congress on corruption risk based on their stock trading activity. Uses public financial disclosure data to surface potential conflicts of interest and unusual trading patterns.

Streamlit Python
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GreenLight NYC

Live

Permit Transparency for Small Businesses

NYC building permit transparency tool exposing the "wait tax" on small businesses. Tracks ALT-2 permit processing times to show which applications get stuck in the system and how long businesses actually wait.

Bolt.new
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Beacon Pulse

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Block-by-Block City Service Transparency

Hyper-local transparency map showing which NYC blocks get city services fast and which are ignored. 550+ blocks mapped with 311 response times, crime data, and air quality metrics at block-level granularity — not just neighborhood averages.

Bolt.new Leaflet.js
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