About

👋 Hi! Scott J. Forman here, the person whose website this is.

I’m currently building Calypta Health, where we use large language models to help people make better decisions about their health. We focus on childhood vaccination, one of the hardest cases, and others where misunderstanding and hesitation cause large-scale harm.

You might also know me as the founder of Vote Forward, a nonprofit that works to increase civic participation by organizing volunteers to send handwritten letters to their fellow citizens. Since 2018, more than a quarter million people have written letters, a total of more than 33 million of them.

Earlier in my career I was among the first employees at Opower where I helped develop software-powered direct mail programs that have, to date, saved 41 terawatt-hours of energy.

My brother once characterized me as an “accomplished indoorsman.” More recently, I’ve become a sort of intermediate outdoorsman. I have a particular interest in the human implications of technology, and in how technology can be used to promote human thriving.

I live in the Mission District of San Francisco.