Civic-tech v2 · Open methodology

Find the improper payments hiding in public spending.

FiscalGuard ingests open government checkbook data, scores every transaction with unsupervised AI, and writes each analysis run to a tamper-evident SHA-256 audit ledger. Built for auditors, comptrollers, oversight bodies, and civic-tech researchers.

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$247B

Federal improper payments (FY22, GAO)

$162B

Federal improper payments (FY24, GAO)

$1.2T

IIJA infrastructure funds under oversight

SHA-256

Tamper-evident audit chain

Ingest open data

Drop in a checkbook CSV — or load the bundled Baltimore sample. Vendor, department, amount, date.

Score every transaction

Unsupervised models (Isolation Forest, LOF) flag outliers and explain why each was flagged.

Anchor the audit trail

Every analysis run is hashed (SHA-256) and chained to the prior block — verifiable in one click.

Run your first analysis in under a minute.

Sample dataset preloaded — no upload required.

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