Independent intelligence & systems
We work where information is fragmented and networks are contested. Public-source intelligence, private communications, and distributed systems — from the first signal to the software that makes it useful.
A common interface to a fragmented regulatory record.
Explore the data infrastructureCounts link to their catalogs. Nexcom network snapshot: September 8, 2026.
Selected systems
Network measurement, public-data systems, private communication, and publishing infrastructure. Distinct projects, connected by a common engineering discipline.
Measurement, privacy & agent work
A censorship observatory grew into an ecosystem for people and agents: source-linked network evidence, encrypted communication, and Voidpay's protocol for private tasks and direct settlement.
Data infrastructure & entity resolution
229 regulatory datasets brought into a common interface. Search across filings, enforcement, contracts, and agency records through a keyless API and 73 published MCP tools.
Publishing infrastructure & media
78 publications across 62 places and regions. A network built around shared infrastructure, source attribution, AI-assisted publishing, and human oversight — with a clear account of how it works.
Cryptography & distributed systems
A documented SDK architecture for encrypted peer communication: hybrid key exchange, forward secrecy, mesh routing, and MAVLink transport for autonomous systems.
Regulatory rows: catalog snapshot from the coverage API, 2026-09-09. Source rows can overlap; each dataset has its own update cadence and reuse terms.
A system in use
Resolve a company to its identifiers, then follow filings and agency records in a single timeline. The sources stay attached.
The initial example is assembled at build time. Run a query to request the current API response. Coverage varies by company and source.
How the data infrastructure works31 events · 21 federal sources queried · 180-day window
Showing 8 of 31 events. Open the complete record.
sec.filings · sec.insider · sec.form144 · sec.13dg · fda.recalls · fda.labels · contracts · clinical.trials · lobbying.filings · epa.facilities · uspto.patents · court.dockets · cfpb.complaints · nih.grants · fed.enforcement · nhtsa.recalls · doj.press · open.payments · dol.form5500 · hud.housing · irs.bmf
Record query: XOM. Showing the example assembled at build time. No key required. Source and reuse terms vary by record.
Public evidence
Institution-level research, documented boundaries, and machine-readable records. The interesting part is what a careful reconstruction makes visible.
Institutions & oversight
Official actions, institutional records, and explicit gaps. Every conclusion stays attached to what its source actually establishes.
Open the Religious Institution Evidence AtlasMarkets & accountability
Trace institutional actions and official industry measurements through source receipts, procedural status, and reusable data.
Open the Real-Estate Brokerage Accountability AtlasOwnership & public systems
Explore documented ownership chains, government surveillance purchases, organ-procurement oversight, and agency AI disclosures.
Published methods. Source-specific terms. A clear corrections process.
Read the standardsThe research record
526 technical articles on the systems, methods, and decisions behind the projects.
Explore the writingThe 2025 federal inventory lists 3,611 agency-reported AI use cases and 445 designated high-impact systems. For 318 high-impact records, the agency left pre-deployment testing unstated; only 16 report an established appeal process. The blanks are disclosure facts, not proof a safeguard is absent — and the inventory spans every lifecycle stage, not only deployed systems.
In 2023, recycled passwords opened roughly 14,000 accounts at 23andMe and, through its relative-matching features, the profiles of millions. Within two years the genetic database had been fined on two continents and sold through a Chapter 11 auction for $305 million, under a court-appointed Consumer Privacy Ombudsman, over the objection of more than thirty states. The full custody chain — breach, penalty, bankruptcy, sale, and the 12-state statute wave that is its legacy — from the public record, via the new Genetic Privacy Ledger.
Five days before the January 2021 order ending federal private-prison contracts, the Bureau of Prisons’ own feed recorded 14,095 people in 11 private facilities. Today it records zero — and it still records zero more than a year after the order was rescinded in January 2025. Both publicly traded operators state in their own SEC filings that they hold no BOP prison contracts. The two policy cycles behind the number, the removed Contract Prisons page, and the standing weekly tripwire on its return — all from BOP’s own numbers via the new BOP Ledger.
Research. Development. Collaboration.
Complex information. Constrained networks. Infrastructure that needs a deeper understanding of the system.