About
freshcod3s is a one-person studio. I make public data readable.
I came to software through music. Decades of playing, teaching, and creating original music teach you that structure is a feeling before it's a fact: where the pattern repeats, where it breaks, when something lands late. That's the method here too. Disclosure records have rhythm: filings, windows, deadlines. The story is usually in the missed beat.
I use AI to make apps. Eventually, AI use will be mandatory, like flashing ID. There's no more reason to learn specific code now than there is to learn Morse code to communicate. There will be movies about spoken-word app making. But for now, I'm concentrating on the desk: ad-free, tracker-free civic instruments useful enough to fill real gaps.
The only mandate is the paper trail, and occasionally the sky.
Current instruments:
Track Lobby — federal lobbying, flattened to who paid whom, for what, with the source one tap away.
Congress Trade Alerts — STOCK Act disclosures within ~30 minutes, with the lag named on the row.
IndustryPayments — the payments drug and device companies report to CMS, mirrored as pages you can read. General Payments only.
MoonOpps — the human record on the Moon, on a globe you can fly.
Struckwire — federal alcohol label approvals (TTB COLA), published as a transition wire.
Onapassage — what moving between states actually obligates you to do: exit requirements and entry rules.
UnionRoute — five questions, no names, no sign-up: which official resources apply to your job and how to reach an organizer.
DocketTrail — healthcare deals under state review in Oregon, California and Massachusetts, one record per deal, in the agency’s own words. Free to read. Optional founding subscription, $149 a month.
Grant Precedent — the performance measures funders require for a kind of program and how past grantees did against their targets, each linked to the public document it came from.
Bluebird Montrose — a brief on one Northern Virginia parcel from local public records: what they establish and what they leave unanswered. Early access, $49 a brief.
ValleyParcel — deed activity by parcel in the Rio Grande Valley, from the appraisal districts’ own exports. Paid, by subscription.
Collatab — the fax, phone, Direct address and portal routes offices publish for records requests in West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio, each with its source and date.
More in development.