A field kit and a daily brief

The record is the story. Keep the record.

Thirteen working instruments for reporting on public money and on the networks that traffic people — and the twelve-edition brief that says which one answers which problem.

What this is

Thirteen tools that run entirely in your browser, and the twelve-edition brief that says which one answers which problem. Six of them are for reporting on how public money is spent. Seven respond to the networks that recruit, move and coerce people — and to the platforms those networks operate on.

Nothing here is stored anywhere. Fill a tool in, export the file, and that file is the copy. There is no account, no server that sees your work, and nothing that auto-publishes.

Field kit · public-program investigations

Six tools for reporting on how public money is spent

One to find what a state does and does not require, one to read a registry, one to hold every claim to a source, one to prove your footage is untouched, one to take a report from someone who can’t use their name, and one to watch the laws that decide whether any of it stays legal.

How they fit together

A tip arrives with no name attached (05). The registry shows nine licenses at one suite number (02). The grid says this state never required a site visit before the first payment, and publishes no inspection counts (01). You go there, and the raw files are sealed the same night (04). Every number that ends up in the piece has a record behind it and every business named was asked to answer (03). And when a bill appears afterward that would make the next one harder, it is already being tracked (06).

A pattern is a reason to pull records, not a finding.

Shared addresses, fast license growth and repeated owner names are all lawful and common. None of these tools produce a score or a verdict, because a score invites publishing an inference as if it were a fact.

What is open gets counted.

Every unfilled cell shows as a number instead of a blank. A half-filled grid published honestly is worth more than a full one nobody can check.

Response apps · the networks behind the briefs

Seven that answer what the daily brief keeps finding

Recruitment, movement, coercion, proceeds, and the platforms all of it runs on. The response map routes every item in the twelve editions to the app that answers it.

The brief

DAYBREAK — twelve editions, July 13 to August 11, 2026

Each edition rates what is known and routes each item to a response. Alongside them: the standing signals and health notices modules, the pipeline blueprint behind how an edition is assembled, and the strategy sheet.

Two things worth doing before you trust this

Run the checks yourself

Every claim this site makes about itself is re-run in your browser against the files it actually served you — the fonts, the loops, the tool logic, the guardrails. Open the checks →

Read what the build changed

The pages here are hers. The colophon lists every edit the build made to a source file, including the one fault that would otherwise have shipped six apps that look finished and do nothing. Open the colophon →