Making institutional power legible

American civic infrastructure has a recurring asymmetry: the people who shape laws, win contracts, and capture regulatory rents have institutional resources to track every move, while everyone else finds out from a Politico dispatch three weeks late.

Lobbying disclosure exists. STOCK Act disclosure exists. Federal contract awards are public. Committee assignments are public. Executive branch advisory rosters are public. The records exist. They just aren't accessible -- not really. The friction between "publicly available" and "publicly readable" is where the asymmetry hides.

That gap has been closeable for a decade. It hasn't been closed, because nobody whose business is the asymmetry has any reason to.

freshcod3s closes the gap.

Track Lobby makes the federal lobbying record searchable -- by registrant, by client, by issue topic -- with each filing's amounts, issues, and source document one tap from the result. Parallel browse paths cover congressional rosters, the executive branch, and 20 curated issues.

Congress Trade Alerts surfaces every STOCK Act disclosure within ~30 minutes of filing, flags trades disclosed past the 45-day statutory window, and lets readers subscribe to push alerts for individual members.

More tools are in development.

The project is small. The tools are not.