Who is building this.
And why now.
David Hitchman is the founder of TwinFlame Group and the architect behind its enterprise software ventures. He currently leads the development of ReimburseOS, PracticeOS, and the Goodwill Sacramento workforce suite — an operational platform deployed across 56 locations serving 2,000 staff. The architecture pattern behind Lighthouse is already proven in production across healthcare, workforce development, and community services.
The origin of Lighthouse is personal. David rebuilt his own life from a difficult chapter — addiction, isolation, and the slow work of reconstruction. That arc informs the entire Lighthouse thesis: the systems that surround a person in crisis determine whether they survive it. For children, those systems are under-resourced, disconnected, and built for a different era. The harm does not wait for the system to catch up.
He started Lighthouse because the technology is ready and the systems are not. The patterns are learnable. The data exists. The platforms that could act on it do not. Building Lighthouse is the work he is choosing to do with the capabilities he has developed — because someone with these capabilities, who sees this problem clearly, does not have a good reason to look away.
What Lighthouse refuses.
These are not aspirational values. They are operational constraints — things Lighthouse commits, as a company, to never do. They exist because the history of technology deployed against social problems is full of tools that became something other than what they promised. We name these refusals explicitly so that anyone evaluating this platform — a nonprofit, an investor, a government agency — can hold us accountable to them.
- 01We refuse to build surveillance tools disguised as safety tools.
- 02We refuse to route any flag to vigilante groups, social media, or unvetted individuals.
- 03We refuse to be weaponized for any political agenda.
- 04We refuse to let AI act without a human in the loop.
- 05We refuse to stop at detection.
The full explanation of each refusal is on the Model page.
How we're held accountable.
Board of Directors — 5 seats
Founder
David Hitchman
Operating Executive
TBD — search active
Child Protection Expert
TBD — NCPTF / TTF relationship track
Technology / Ethics
Hany Farid (UC Berkeley) — in conversation
Independent Director
TBD — major foundation or legal background
Governance commitments
- Annual independently-audited public impact report, published without redaction of adverse findings.
- Chief Privacy Officer hired before signing any federal LOI or law enforcement contract.
- Independent ethics review of every Lighthouse feature before deployment — no exceptions for timelines.
- Lighthouse Foundation board is independent from Lighthouse, Inc. board. No officer serves on both.
- All AI flag logic reviewed by a domain expert (law enforcement, child welfare, or child psychology) before launch.