Operators

This site is operated as an independent civic project. The named operators below are accountable for every claim, every source, and every correction.

• Editor: the named editor will be listed here before public launch. Pseudonymous operation defeats the purpose of a trust product.
• Engineering: open-source contributions tracked in the project repository; named contributors credited.
• Methodology review: at least two outside civic technologists review every methodology change before it ships.

Funding

How we pay for this matters. The funding model is disclosed here and updated whenever it changes.

• Today: personally funded by the founding operators. No outside money. No advertising. No paid placement.
• Allowed: reader contributions, philanthropic grants from nonpartisan civic-tech funders, paid API access for newsrooms and AI engines.
• Disallowed: campaign committees, PACs, candidate committees, lobbying organizations, party committees, dark-money entities, advertising on records or topic pages.
• Disclosure: every donor over $500 disclosed on this page within 14 days.

Editorial rules

• No partisan scoring. No endorsements. No outrage framing.
• Every factual claim links to a primary source.
• Missing data is labeled missing. Coverage gaps are visible, not hidden.
• Corrections are posted publicly in the corrections log and never silently deleted.
• Operators recuse from records they have a personal financial interest in. Recusals are noted in the methodology log.

Governance

• Methodology changes require two named reviewers and a public changelog entry.
• Adding a jurisdiction requires a working ingestion connector against an official source, not a one-time hand-curated upload.
• Removing a record requires a corrections-log entry explaining why; we do not silently delete.
• Hosting and data: deployed on Vercel; source records and indexed metadata are not personal data and are published as a public API.