My Town AI

Post-pitch story

Nichole Sterling pitched My Town AI in Season 14 (Episode 172, "ChatGPT Meets SimCity") while serving as Mayor Pro Tem of Nederland, Colorado, a town of about 1,500 people. Her platform aims to give small local governments "civic intelligence." It pulls together information buried in PDFs and meeting minutes, runs AI workflows such as a grants manager, and offers a SimCity-style "digital twin" for testing decisions before a town makes them. She said My Town AI was already being piloted in eight municipalities. Her sales strategy relied on the fact that many small towns can buy software under $10,000 without a formal bidding process. She was raising $1 million. The panel included Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Jesse Middleton and Dawn Dobras. The Pitch hasn't clearly said whether any of them invested. Sterling's founder page has no "funded" tag, and we didn't find a My Town AI segment in the Season 14 finale, which suggests she didn't close a deal from the show. My Town AI is still operating. Its website promises to empower "local government with AI," which matches what she pitched. We found no public news about new funding, customers or team changes since the episode. If you know how the pilots turned out, send us a tip.