M. C. is the founder of Transparency Toolkit, a non-profit that makes free software to help journalists, researchers, and activists collect and analyze open source intelligence. He has worked on projects like ICWatch (icwatch.transparencytoolkit.org) and the Snowden Document Search (search.edwardsnowden.com) to help expose surveillance programs and make large sets of documents more understandable. M. C. is also a Thiel Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow.