I'm Nathaniel Arfin
I create digital products and manage teams. I like to build for better. Let's get in touch.
Right now I'm working on…
newleafliberals.com
New Leaf Liberals is a grassroots organization dedicated to building a stronger Ontario Liberal Party to defeat Doug Ford. We are bringing together groups of community members and activists who are passionate about preparing the Ontario Liberal Party for the next election.
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chsolutions.ca
Chester Hill Solutions is my digital campaign practice — campaign sites, CMS platforms, and delivery systems for political and civic clients. This very site runs on the stack.
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Things I build on my own time — Awesome Canada, a curated directory of official Canadian government data and services, Perfect Season, an MLB all-time draft game, and Hansard Chat, a GPT trained from scratch on the Canadian parliamentary record.
My writing
AI Safety and Necessary Action
Essay · 2026 — An accountability regime for AI: named decision owners, shared evaluation evidence, and stop conditions someone can actually trigger. Originally posted at Scrimshaw Unscripted.
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Essay · 2023 — Bandwidth, latency, and why the last mile still decides how fast the internet feels.
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