Benjamin Gilliland

Ben Gilliland

Ben Gilliland is the founder and chairman of Future Proof Property Intelligence PBC, a Delaware public-benefit corporation developing property-risk, inspection, and remediation-planning products. He also founded The Paulele Hale Association, a Hawaii nonprofit associated with the earlier climate-resilient housing and technology work from which Future Proof emerged.

His Venture Step conversation focuses on a practical gap in property risk. Homeowners can receive hazard warnings and scores, but they often lack a connected route into engineering, a priced construction scope, financing, qualified contractors, inspection, and evidence an insurer can review.

Current roles

Future Proof's February 2026 SEC offering statement identifies Gilliland as chairman and founder of Future Proof Property Intelligence, chairman and founder of The Paulele Hale Association, and managing director of ExMachina Builders. The issuer's May 6, 2026 Form C signature filing identifies him as a Future Proof board member.

The company filing identifies Claudia Brennan as chief executive officer and later principal executive officer. Gilliland therefore should not be described as Future Proof's current CEO unless a newer authoritative record changes that role.

The filing also says Gilliland holds 94.5 percent of the issuer's voting power through ExMachina Financial LLC on the filing's fully diluted basis. Ownership can change and is relevant mainly when discussing company governance or the crowdfunding offering.

The route into the problem

Gilliland's background is not a conventional insurance career. In the E112 interview, he describes work in construction, concert laser systems, fabrication, marine treasure recovery, and experimental building. He connects those experiences through systems engineering and field execution.

The interview account should remain attributed to him. The public record independently supports his current organizational roles and the company history, but it does not verify every project anecdote, performance statement, or technical claim.

That distinction is especially important for the experimental house in Hawaii. Gilliland presents it as a practical test bed for fire-resistant exteriors, wind-resistant techniques, independent water, and other resilient-building ideas. Future Proof's company history also describes a first TPHA house completed in 2021. Neither source is an independent engineering evaluation of the building's performance.

The project is best understood as the origin of a product question: how can knowledge from a physical build become a repeatable, reviewable plan for an existing home?

Founding The Paulele Hale Association

The Paulele Hale Association was organized in Hawaii around affordable and climate-resilient housing. Its current website describes work on construction methods, materials, education, and housing concepts.

IRS-derived data in ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer identifies Paulele Hale Association Inc. as a 501(c)(3), EIN 92-3557335, tax-exempt since January 2024. Its 2024 Form 990 lists Benjamin David Gilliland as chairman with no reported compensation from the nonprofit for that year.

Future Proof's SEC filing says the commercial company acquired technology assets from TPHA in August 2025. It also says the two organizations ceased common board control on July 31, 2025, although the filing discloses ongoing related-party relationships and debt.

The nonprofit and public-benefit company share an origin and mission language. They are separate legal and financial entities.

Building Future Proof Property Intelligence

Future Proof was incorporated in Delaware on March 11, 2025 and later changed its legal name from Future Proof Climate Intelligence PBC to Future Proof Property Intelligence PBC.

Gilliland describes a product chain that begins with community and property risk, uses a phone to collect building information, develops an engineering and remodeling scope, identifies funding or financing routes, connects the homeowner with execution, and creates a new record for insurance review.

The company's consumer product is Magic Window. Future Proof's current product page describes ZIP and community-level information about several hazards and relevant programs. The Apple listing reviewed earlier returned 404 on July 28, 2026, so current mobile availability needs a fresh store check.

The property-specific layer is described through XHome Survey and the Visionary AI Engine. The company says it is intended to create a property model, identify vulnerabilities, and produce plans, materials, and cost information. Current availability and independent validation should be checked before representing that layer as an established service.

The strongest idea in his Venture Step appearance

Gilliland's most durable contribution is the view that prediction is incomplete without remediation.

A home-risk product can be technically accurate and still fail the homeowner if it ends with a score. The next system has to connect several professions and records that rarely share one workflow.

flowchart LR
    A["Risk information"] --> B["Property evidence"]
    B --> C["Qualified design"]
    C --> D["Financing and construction"]
    D --> E["Inspection"]
    E --> F["Insurance review"]

Gilliland's product thesis is about the handoffs between risk, construction, and insurance.

The thesis also creates a demanding burden of proof. A recommendation that affects a structure must be accurate and limited to the right hazard. The professional responsible for the design and approval must remain visible. The completed work must be inspected. The insurer must have a lawful and actuarially supported way to use the evidence.

Future Proof's own offering statement acknowledges those constraints. It identifies third-party data dependency, AI accuracy, liability, and insurer adoption as material risks.

What not to infer

Gilliland's appearance does not establish that Future Proof's full platform is operating at scale. It does not independently validate the company's projections, the performance of the Hawaii house, national retrofit costs, expected insurance savings, or the number and value of homes that can be remediated.

His background in construction does not make every product recommendation an engineering certification. His nonprofit role does not make the commercial company a charity. The SEC filing makes company statements public, but the SEC does not endorse the issuer or confirm the merits of its offering.

These boundaries make the profile more useful. They allow readers to examine the operating idea without turning a founder conversation into a product guarantee.

Venture Step episode

In E112, Dalton Anderson and Ben Gilliland discuss property hardening, climate-risk data, insurance-market pressure, the Hawaii origin project, smartphone property scans, construction plans, financing, contractor networks, and insurer-facing recertification.

Read Ben Gilliland and the Attempt to Turn Climate Risk Into a Construction Plan for the full episode story. What Is Property Hardening? defines the construction concept, while From Risk Score to Retrofit turns the proposed workflow into a practical evidence chain.

Official routes and verification

Current company information begins at FutureProof.org and the company history. Gilliland's professional profile is available on LinkedIn. Current offering and governance records are available through the SEC issuer filing.

This profile was verified on July 27, 2026. Titles, ownership, product status, company stage, and organizational relationships can change. AI assisted with research organization and drafting; source boundaries and final editorial decisions remain Dalton Anderson's.

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