From advocating for robot personhood to scaling a solventless cannabis retail operation to building infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. Based in Celebration, Florida.
Semantic Surface Architecture (SSA) Whitepaper: Framework for humans and AI agent collaboration to build complex software systems.
I'm Michael Latulippe. I live in Celebration, Florida. Right now I'm building Popdot AI, where AI agents get an address on the web. I run Park Maxing and Sleep Around Points on the travel side, and I write about the Disney parks economy under the pen name Michael Starlane. My latest release is Semantic Surface Architecture, a way of naming software systems so people and AI agents can more easily collaborate with natural language.
I'm a strategist. I move early, before things are obvious, and I back my own calls with my own money and time. That's what got me inside the Massachusetts cannabis fight as a patient advocate, and onto the state Cannabis Advisory Board. It's why I was on record in 2017 saying robots might one day be considered people. And it's how I built a five million dollar a year retail business, sold in 2026, after growing software communities of tens of thousands.
Everything here is documented. The Record page keeps the press and public records, so anyone reading about me can check it themselves.
The first domain marketplace built for AI agents to discover, rent, and deploy domains with no human in the loop.
popdot.aiSleep Around Points is the premier peer to peer marketplace for Disney Vacation Club rentals.
sleeparoundpoints.comI publish independent data on the Disney parks economy under the pen name Michael Starlane.
michaelstarlane.comSleep Around Points, Popdot AI, and Starlane Reports operate under Park Maxing, Inc., my Florida company, which holds an active Florida Seller of Travel license (ST45980).
Co-founded a solventless cannabis retail operation with Blue River Terps, the world's leading solventless manufacturer. Spearheaded the shop's Economic Empowerment Priority Applicant designation and led licensing in Massachusetts' new adult-use market. Ran the whole machine: HR, payroll, insurance, vendors, municipal relations, dispute resolution, and a team of 20. Grew it to five million dollars a year and sold it in 2026.
Development Director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance. Seated on the state Cannabis Advisory Board from 2017 to 2021, and registered qualifying patient advisor to the Cannabis Control Commission. Presented the onsite consumption recommendations that shaped the state's social consumption framework. Pushed on patient registration until the state fixed it: same-day ID cards, and 40 percent growth in new patient enrollment after legalization.
Founded software engineering communities in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston and grew them to tens of thousands of members. Ran talks and job fairs through the industry's cloud and big data boom, with the hiring model flipped: Google, Microsoft, and the other companies paid for the tables, not the engineers. The group is still running today.
Semantic Surface Architecture™ is my method for organizing software so people and AI coding assistants can work on the same codebase without losing each other. The idea is simple: treat meaning as the architecture. Name things well, give every actor its own Surface, and structure the code as systems, components, actions, and outcomes, so anyone reading it, human or agent, can tell what it does, who owns it, and what it's allowed to touch. That matters more every month, because more of every codebase is now written by AI. SSA is how you keep the map, keep the context, and keep control. I didn't develop it in a lab. It came out of running two production platforms where it had to work. The whitepaper has the full method.
Read the whitepaperAlso in development
A free planning app for Disney and Universal passholders. In development, launching when it's ready.
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Press coverage and public records, 2015 to today. Every link is the original source.
A Globe Business profile of Michael as president of the Cannabis Society and development director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance. It traces how a self-taught reading of constitutional law turned him into the advocate state regulators had to answer to.
Studying constitutional law had a big effect on me. It made me unafraid to read legal language and interpret it.
A Globe Metro story on MBTA ridership that features Michael as founder of Humans Against Driving, his group advocating autonomous vehicles as a health care issue. Eight years before AI agents went mainstream, he was already on record about machine personhood.
I chose Humans Against Driving instead of People Against Driving, because I don't want to preclude the possibility that robots may be considered people in the future.
The AP's national wire story on the first legal recreational shops on the East Coast. Michael was the patient voice in it, carried by outlets across the country including Fox Business and CBS Boston.
Our immediate concern is to have rules in place to make sure patients can access these facilities.
The Attorney General's office approves town bans on medical marijuana dispensaries.
Worcester Telegram & GazetteOn the record
"we will ensure they recant this gross misinterpretation of legislative intent present in Chapter 55 ... I can assure you that the AG's office did not review the regulations."
Michael Latulippe, qualifying patient adviser, Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance
The office reverses itself, writing that the approval "was given in error." Northboro and Bellingham are told they cannot prohibit dispensaries.
When the state Department of Revenue asked the public how it should collect taxes from an industry locked out of banking, Michael, described as a patient advocate who used to work in tech, submitted what the paper called a creative solution: record every sale on a blockchain, and use smart contracts to send tax to municipalities at the moment of purchase.
Every transaction, whether it was cash or not, would be put in the system. It could basically ensure no transaction goes untraced.
Official state minutes recording that Michael presented the working group's recommendations on onsite consumption, the tenets document that fed into the Cannabis Control Commission's social consumption rulemaking. Not press coverage, a government record.
Michael Latulippe presented the working group's updated recommendations.
WBUR's story on the state's decision to allow social consumption, with Michael as a Cannabis Advisory Board member explaining what the policy would mean. Massachusetts was positioned to be the first state with a regulated framework for it.
I think we'll be the first state in the country to offer this, so essentially we will have in place a regulated, safe and controlled system by which to consume cannabis on site and legal businesses.
When the Baker administration pushed the commission to drop social consumption from its draft regulations, Michael defended the framework on air as co-founder and director of the Cannabis Society of Massachusetts.
This is a whole new opportunity, I think, for small entrepreneurs, businesses to come in and for a lot of revenue to be generated for the state, as well as for all the players involved.
The story that put the registration problem on the map: roughly 10,000 certified patients had never made it through the state's 15-step registration. Michael, founder of the Cannabis Society, named the barrier for what it was.
We have a voter ID law here in effect in Mass. to prevent people from getting access to medical cannabis.
A long interview on the state's slow-walking of the voter-approved medical program, from hospice patients waiting a week or more for dispensary access to a budget amendment that would have locked in patient fees. Michael's most extensive quotes on the record anywhere.
The dispensary application process has been fuddled since the beginning and has had delays due to everything from the DPH not following its own points system in picking applicants to simple spelling errors on applications causing 60-plus day delays.
As legalization approached, the Globe surveyed what would happen to the medical program. Michael's line in it became the mission statement for the registration fight.
We're going to fight to keep the medical program viable by fixing the registration process.
The Globe's account of the state shelving reforms patients had been promised, including streamlined registration, which at the time meant a two to three week wait for a card. The state adopted same-day access in 2019.
Medical marijuana patients are being told to wait and take a back seat by the Department of Public Health while the adult-use [recreational] industry gets priority.
As the first recreational licenses were handed out, Michael, then also the registered qualifying patient advisor to the Cannabis Control Commission, flagged the loophole that would let dormant medical licensees jump the line.
We're worried about this creating a loophole for [dispensaries] to disavow themselves of medical applicants, and just pursue adult licensing.
In the debate over the state's vertical integration mandate, Michael made the patient case against it: forced grow-your-own meant higher prices and worse product.
Patients for years have complained about high prices, low competition, and low-quality products that aren't dedicated to medical marijuana patients, and we're seeing more as adult-use rolls out.
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