In early November 2025, millions of Americans lost access to their SNAP benefits overnight due to a government shutdown, including thousands of families across Atlanta. In the face of this crisis, I decided to take action. Using Claude, React, and SCSS, I built an open source, live web application that lists food resources by county and zip code for Atlanta families in need. This talk walks through how I leveraged Claude, and a small but growing list of resources to take swift action for the community to design, architect, and maintain a small, but growing civic tech platform. I will discuss the project’s technical architecture, my Claude workflows, my collaborators, and the lessons I learned about using AI responsibly for swift action for the community. Most importantly, I want to encourage other engineers and researchers to start their own civic technical projects as a way for expertise to meet real-world needs.