From public records to plain answers

How it works

1
Public records
Open data portals, budget books, checkbook exports and audits the parish already publishes.
2
Sync
New records are pulled in on a schedule. Read-only, from published sources.
3
One format
Every parish maps to the same categories, so any two parishes compare.
4
Answers
Charts, search and plain-English answers, each linked to its source.

What happens when you ask

You ask

How much has the parish paid Entergy since 2018?

It searches the records

Open Checkbook BR, every payment since 2018

select  year, sum(amount)
where   vendor like '%ENTERGY%'
group   by year

You get the answer and the source

The parish has paid Entergy $196.8 million from 2018 through Nov 5, 2026.

Source Open Checkbook BR ↗

Read-only

Nothing connects to a government's financial system. It reads what is already public.

Every number has a source

Each chart and answer links to the record it came from.

No guessing

Ask only states figures it retrieved. If the records can't answer, it says so.

Same format statewide

One set of categories for all 64 parishes, so comparisons are fair.

Parish has an open data portal

Connect to it directly, like East Baton Rouge. Figures update as the parish publishes.

Parish publishes PDFs or spreadsheets

Documents are read and mapped to the standard format, then checked by a person before they appear.

Parish publishes little online

Start from state and federal filings, then add records as the parish shares them.