I'm building open-source infrastructure for investigative journalism:

foiacquire automates the tedious parts of FOIA research - scraping government archives, running OCR on scanned documents, and making everything searchable. It pulls from FBI Vault, CIA Reading Room, MuckRock, DocumentCloud, and custom sources.

muckrake turns documents into investigations - extracting people, organizations, and relationships, then linking every claim back to source documents with page numbers and text spans.

Together, they're a platform that lets one person do what used to require a research team.

Why I'm building this

I wanted to do investigative journalism but didn't have the training or resources. So I started building the tools I wished existed. If I can use them to investigate, so can local journalists, researchers, and anyone who cares about transparency.

What sponsorship supports

• Full-time development on foiacquire + muckrake
• Integration between the two tools
• Better documentation for non-technical users
• Keeping everything open source and free

Current status

foiacquire is functional with multi-source scraping, OCR, full-text search, and a web UI. muckrake is in early development - data model designed, implementation underway. Working toward a production-ready integrated platform.

Suggested Tiers

$5/month - Supporter

Thanks for believing in open government transparency tools.

$25/month - Backer

Your support helps keep development moving. Get your name in the README.

$100/month - Sustainer

Meaningful contribution toward full-time development. Priority response on GitHub issues.

$500/month - Sponsor

Directly funding open-source investigative infrastructure. Logo in README + monthly update on development progress.

One-time options

Also accept one-time contributions for those who prefer not to subscribe.