Austin Taylor is the founder of Cope Compass, a real-time recovery support platform for people facing gambling problems, which he designed and built himself. In recovery from gambling, he created it after his own treatment left him without tools that reached the 2 a.m. moments between sessions. He brings a rare background to the work: 17 years as a principal security engineer, including building AI and behavioral-analytics systems at Meta and securing sensitive data at a behavioral-health company, plus 16 years as a U.S. Air Force cyber warfare operations officer. That security-first discipline shapes how Cope Compass handles AI and personal data: private by default, with deliberate guardrails, and always routing people back to human help. Austin has taught machine learning to audiences at BlackHat, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies, and builds alongside a clinical advisory board of gambling-disorder specialists.