diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 17dcea1a2..9e8697144 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ group :test do
 end
 
 group :development do
+  gem 'annotate'
   gem 'brakeman', require: false
   gem 'haml-lint'
   gem 'letter_opener_web'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 7e6788aef..a79303908 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ GEM
     aes_key_wrap (1.1.0)
     after_party (1.11.2)
     anchored (1.1.0)
+    annotate (3.1.1)
+      activerecord (>= 3.2, < 7.0)
+      rake (>= 10.4, < 14.0)
     ast (2.4.1)
     attr_required (1.0.1)
     autoprefixer-rails (9.7.6)
@@ -752,6 +755,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   administrate
   after_party
   anchored
+  annotate
   axe-matchers
   bcrypt
   bootstrap-sass (>= 3.4.1)
diff --git a/lib/tasks/auto_annotate_models.rake b/lib/tasks/auto_annotate_models.rake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c972ee747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/tasks/auto_annotate_models.rake
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# NOTE: only doing this in development as some production environments (Heroku)
+# NOTE: are sensitive to local FS writes, and besides -- it's just not proper
+# NOTE: to have a dev-mode tool do its thing in production.
+if Rails.env.development?
+  require 'annotate'
+  task :set_annotation_options do
+    # You can override any of these by setting an environment variable of the
+    # same name.
+    Annotate.set_defaults(
+      'active_admin'                => 'false',
+      'additional_file_patterns'    => [],
+      'routes'                      => 'false',
+      'models'                      => 'true',
+      'position_in_routes'          => 'before',
+      'position_in_class'           => 'before',
+      'position_in_test'            => 'before',
+      'position_in_fixture'         => 'before',
+      'position_in_factory'         => 'before',
+      'position_in_serializer'      => 'before',
+      'show_foreign_keys'           => 'false',
+      'show_complete_foreign_keys'  => 'false',
+      'show_indexes'                => 'false',
+      'simple_indexes'              => 'false',
+      'model_dir'                   => 'app/models',
+      'root_dir'                    => '',
+      'include_version'             => 'false',
+      'require'                     => '',
+      'exclude_tests'               => 'true',
+      'exclude_fixtures'            => 'true',
+      'exclude_factories'           => 'true',
+      'exclude_serializers'         => 'true',
+      'exclude_scaffolds'           => 'true',
+      'exclude_controllers'         => 'true',
+      'exclude_helpers'             => 'true',
+      'exclude_sti_subclasses'      => 'false',
+      'ignore_model_sub_dir'        => 'false',
+      'ignore_columns'              => nil,
+      'ignore_routes'               => nil,
+      'ignore_unknown_models'       => 'true',
+      'hide_limit_column_types'     => 'integer,bigint,boolean',
+      'hide_default_column_types'   => 'json,jsonb,hstore',
+      'skip_on_db_migrate'          => 'false',
+      'format_bare'                 => 'true',
+      'format_rdoc'                 => 'false',
+      'format_yard'                 => 'false',
+      'format_markdown'             => 'false',
+      'sort'                        => 'false',
+      'force'                       => 'false',
+      'frozen'                      => 'false',
+      'classified_sort'             => 'true',
+      'trace'                       => 'false',
+      'wrapper_open'                => nil,
+      'wrapper_close'               => nil,
+      'with_comment'                => 'true'
+    )
+  end
+
+  Annotate.load_tasks
+end