Methodology

Data-status labels

• Live API: fetched from a verified API for the current request, with a successful retrieval time.
• Daily snapshot: stored retrieval refreshed on a daily schedule.
• Reference snapshot: tied to a published dataset or manually reviewed reference release.
• Modeled analysis: derived from disclosed inputs, weights and limitations.
• Demonstration: product preview that must not be interpreted as factual government data.

Scores withheld

Government Risk Index, cybersecurity grades, AI-adoption scores and Oversee Scores are not published. A future score must disclose every component input, weight, source date, limitation and reproducible calculation before release.

Campaign finance

Individual-giving totals may include unitemized receipts. Donation counts and averages use itemized records because unitemized filings do not include donation-level counts. FEC records remain the authoritative source.

Corrections and uncertainty

We preserve stale timestamps during source failures, display unavailable states and never replace missing records with invented values.