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Claude meets Government Oversight 🫡🇺🇸

**Please know I don’t use Reddit at all but I am trying to learn because I feel like this is the best space to get feedback and interest in this project.**🫰**🏼** I have spent so much time on this project and I have a long way to go****!

📸****RE the pictures: please note that this was the first time I had run the dashboard build prompt. I’m fairly confident in the numbers though I have blacked out ones I haven’t audited yet.****

I have spent the last few months redirecting the energy being created by my PTSD into something more productive - government accountability and transparency specially, Congress.

As a former congressional staffer and currently unemployed federal strategic comms and political operative - I have a lot of institutional knowledge that just lives in my head. For example - do you know where the wood working workshop is in the basement of the Capitol? What about how to inquire on behalf of a member of Congress about arranging an interpreter for and to sit with for their guest at the State of the Union. What about pulling together a verbal and written briefing in a secure location for a member of Congress on a topic they want to learn about and you know nothing about? Or how to escort a recognizable celebrity through the halls of Congress who you were just informed is having lunch with your boss?

These are all things that just live in my head, years of institutional knowledge that just lives there and is not being used because of the state of our government. So I decided to do something about it…….

I started building a dashboard that (for the sake of my sanity at the moment) uses the power of AI, to bring together what I’m calling ‘Article One’ (after Article One of the Constitution)

**Article One is a Claude AI powered dashboard** that pulls together basically all the information you’ve ever wanted to know about a member of Congress + who they represent + how they got there (the campaign) + their job performance in Congress + deep dives into how they are using the money that’s donated to them + how they are using the tax dollars they get to run their office.

It’s all powered by a team of agents and subagents.

This is not about politics. This is about the American People. These are your elected officials and you deserve to know what they are doing - in a way that is firmly based in facts and reality.

I’m personally a big fan of the nutrition card! Such a cool and fun way to display the data! Would love to know what everyone thinks, any feedback or ideas? 🫰🏼🇺🇸🥴

u/Able_Ad9364 — 3 hours ago

Congressional 🇺🇸 Oversight ⚡️Powered 🔋By 🤖Claude

Please know I don’t use Reddit at all but I am trying to learn because I feel like this is the best space to get feedback and interest in this project.🫰🏼** I have spent so much time on this project and I have a long way to go**!

📸RE the pictures: please note that this was the first time I had run the dashboard build prompt. I’m fairly confident in the numbers though I have blacked out ones I haven’t audited yet.

I have spent the last few months redirecting the energy being created by my PTSD into something more productive - government accountability and transparency specially, Congress.

As a former congressional staffer and currently unemployed federal strategic comms and political operative - I have a lot of institutional knowledge that just lives in my head. For example - do you know where the wood working workshop is in the basement of the Capitol? What about how to inquire on behalf of a member of Congress about arranging an interpreter for and to sit with for their guest at the State of the Union. What about pulling together a verbal and written briefing in a secure location for a member of Congress on a topic they want to learn about and you know nothing about? Or how to escort a recognizable celebrity through the halls of Congress who you were just informed is having lunch with your boss?

These are all things that just live in my head, years of institutional knowledge that just lives there and is not being used because of the state of our government. So I decided to do something about it…….

I started building a dashboard that (for the sake of my sanity at the moment) uses the power of AI, to bring together what I’m calling ‘Article One’ (after Article One of the Constitution)

Article One is an AI powered dashboard that pulls together basically all the information you’ve ever wanted to know about a member of Congress + who they represent + how they got there (the campaign) + their job performance in Congress + deep dives into how they are using the money that’s donated to them + how they are using the tax dollars they get to run their office.

It’s all powered by a team of agents and subagents.

This is not about politics. This is about the American People. These are your elected officials and you deserve to know what they are doing - in a way that is firmly based in facts and reality.

I’m personally a big fan of the nutrition card! Such a cool and fun way to display the data! Would love to know what everyone thinks, any feedback or ideas? 🫰🏼🇺🇸🥴

u/Able_Ad9364 — 3 hours ago

Article One — US House Transparency and Accountability

I’m very new to Reddit and posted this early this morning. I know a lot of people saw my post the other day around this time so I wanted to repost it - looking for any feedback, advice, or ideas on funding. Processing large datasets is really using a lot of my usage in one session!

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u/Able_Ad9364 — 10 days ago
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Article One — US House Transparency and Accountability

I spent my unemployment building a free dashboard that shows you exactly what Congress is doing with your money. Here's what I found.

[Re-Posting this from the other day in compliance with the rules]

I've been unemployed for a few months. Instead of updating my resume, I built a platform that makes the U.S. House of Representatives actually readable by ordinary citizens.

It's called Article One. It's free, nonpartisan, and built entirely on public data that technically anyone could access — but practically no one can, because it's buried in government databases in forms that require weeks of work to parse.

What it does:

🗺️ Interactive map of all 435 House districts — find your representative, see their committees, tenure, and office info

💰 Campaign finance breakdown — which vendors get paid, how much, and whether the same names keep appearing election after election

🧾 Official office spending — how members use their taxpayer-funded Member Representational Allowance, by category

📊 Legislative Report Card — every committee rated on how often it actually advances bills to the floor vs. letting them stall

🤖 And the part I'm most proud of: Prudence, an AI decision-support system that reads the actual rules of the House — the Members' Handbook, House Rules, published research frameworks — and checks individual members' financial records against them. She flags what deserves a closer look and lays out options. She never makes decisions — that's always a human — but she does the research.

Why this matters right now:

The Obama administration built We the People — a system where citizen petitions produced real policy responses. It worked. Then it was removed with no replacement. Now AI is increasingly being deployed on Americans rather than forthem, and I think that's the wrong direction.

Government reform starts with knowing what government actually does. That's what this is.

Honest caveats:

The site is in public beta. Some data is still placeholder while live sources are wired in. The FEC reconciliation is real and verified to <0.5% variance. Full source citations will roll in with updates.

I'm one person. No team, no funding, no institutional backing. If you work in civic tech, journalism, or government transparency — or just want to support the project — I'd love to hear from you.

Article One

Happy to answer questions about how it's built, what Prudence actually does, or the data sources.

riotwitch28.github.io
u/Able_Ad9364 — 10 days ago