01A brief lands
Look into Coastal Futures Action Fund
Case file opened · workspace sealed
A research workbench
Data in.Intelligence out.
The power of a research team: a living case file, every fact with its receipt, a corpus you can interrogate — and finished work in any form the evidence supports.
02The corpus builds
412sources · captured · indexed
- USASPENDING · $2,400,000 award · captured
- FEC · Schedule E · $310,402 · captured
- IRS 990 · Schedule R · related org · captured
- OpenCorporates · registered agent · captured
- State filing · board roster · captured
- CourtListener · docket sweep · indexed
03Findings, with receipts
Coastal Futures took in $2.4M in federal grants in FY2024 — its largest award on record.[01]
USASPENDING · award detail“Award amount: $2,400,000. Recipient: Coastal Futures Action Fund.”
An affiliated PAC spent $310,402 in the same cycle.[02]
FEC · Schedule E“Independent expenditures: $310,402.”
A board member directs the grant's named subrecipient.[03]
IRS 990 · Schedule R“Related organization; common officer.”
04Interrogate the corpus
Does any record tie the federal grant to voter-registration work?
No primary document ties the federal funds to registration. The corpus holds the funding relationship and the board overlap[03] — but the two-state overlap rests on a program summary, not a record. It stays flagged, not asserted.
Answered from the case file · every line cited
05Compose the work
White paper · from the case file
Federal Grants and the Coastal Futures Board
What the record supports, and what it does not.
Coastal Futures' $2.4M FY2024 award was its largest on record[01]. An affiliated PAC spent $310,402 that cycle[02], and a board member directs the grant's named subrecipient[03]. No primary document ties the funds to registration work — that link is flagged, not asserted.
White paperInvestigative reportOp-edMedia scriptSource packet
01 · What we hold to
Three things, held on every Case.
Most tools optimize one of these and trade away the other two. Privacy, depth, and a human directing the work hold on every Case.
● Privacy
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▤ Depth
The work behind the claim.
Aculeus reads the primary record, works out what it means, finds the gaps, runs a second pass, and carries the counter to its own read. Every line has a receipt. Where the record runs thin, it says so on the page.
PRIMARY RECORD · SECOND-ORDER READ · GAP ANALYSIS · THE COUNTER CARRIED · A RECEIPT FOR EVERY LINE
◇● Human in the loop
You direct it.
You and the engine work side by side. It builds the deep read. You interrogate the corpus, cut what is thin, ask for more, and decide what ships. Nothing goes out without you. The work is the engine's. The judgment is yours.
ENGINE BUILDS · YOU INTERROGATE · IT RESPONDS · YOU DECIDE · YOUR JUDGMENT GOES ON THE RECORD
02 · How it runs
One loop. You direct every step.
● YOU
Brief
Bring a person, an organization, a filing, or an issue.
→◇ ENGINE
Case file
Read the primary record in depth. Build the cited case file.
→● YOU + ◇ ENGINE
Interrogate
Ask anything across the corpus. Cut what is thin, go deeper where it holds.
→● YOU + ◇ ENGINE
Compose
Turn the case into finished work — a white paper, report, op-ed, script, or source packet.
→◇ ENGINE
Watch
The signal a case turns on is watched. When it moves, the case reopens so you can take it again.
● sealed to your workspaceYou bring the Brief. The engine builds the cited Case file. You Interrogate the whole corpus. Together you Compose the finished work. And the Watch reopens the case when its signal moves. All of it stays sealed to your workspace.
03 · Depth
A claim is cheap. The work is everything behind it.
Past capture, Aculeus works out what the record means, looks for what is missing, goes back for it, carries the counter to its own read, and pulls a receipt for every line.
01
Intake
Read the brief. Classify intent.
02
The record
Pull official and primary sources.
03
Capture
Fetch the pages, save the evidence.
most tools stop here04
Gap + second pass
Find what is missing. Go back for it.
05
Read + counter + receipts
What it means, the counter, a quote per line.
FIVE OF FOURTEEN STAGES SHOWN. THE WORK PAST CAPTURE IS THE PRODUCT.
04 · The Case
The Case. The work behind the claim.
A Case is the unit of intelligence. It carries the read, the counter, the signal to watch, and a receipt for every line. Where the record cannot carry a claim, it flags it instead of papering over it. This one is from the Oversight playbook. Tap any claim to open its receipt.
CASE · OVERSIGHT · SAMPLE47 REVIEWED · 4 CITED · CONFIDENCE MODERATE● SEALED
▸ TAP A CLAIM TO PULL ITS RECEIPT
USASPENDING · AWARD DETAIL · FY2024“Award amount: $2,400,000. Recipient: Coastal Futures Action Fund.”USASPENDING.GOV
FEC · SCHEDULE E“Independent expenditures: $310,402.”FEC.GOV
IRS 990 · SCHEDULE R · RELATED ORGANIZATIONS“Related organization, common officer.”IRS.GOV · FORM 990
PROGRAM NARRATIVE · AMBIGUOUSNo primary document ties the federal funds to registration work. The link rests on a program summary, not a record. It will not ship as fact.
What it means
The filings establish a funding relationship and overlapping leadership worth a closer look. They do not, on the current record, establish misuse. The decisive question, whether federal dollars touched registration work, is not answered by any primary document in hand.
The counter · carried
Federal awards to advocacy-adjacent nonprofits are common and lawful. The overlapping board role is disclosed on the 990, not concealed, and is not improper on its face. The two-state overlap rests on a program summary and should not be published as fact.
The edge is not pulling it first. It is understanding it first.
05 · Interrogate the corpus
Ask anything. Answered from the record.
The whole case file is one thing you can question. Ask across every source at once and the answer comes back grounded in the corpus, with the citation on each line. It reads the record you gathered, not the open web — so when it cannot support a claim, it says so and flags it rather than reaching for one.
You
Does any record tie the federal grant to voter-registration work?
◆
No primary document ties the federal funds to registration. The corpus holds the funding relationship[01] and the board overlap[03] — but the two-state overlap rests on a program summary, not a record. It stays flagged, not asserted.
ANSWERED FROM 3 CITED SOURCES · EVERY LINE TRACES TO THE CASE FILE
You
Who else appears alongside the board member?
◆
The subrecipient's 990 lists two other officers who also appear on the fund's state annual report[03]. Both are named in the entity index; neither carries a further federal award on the current record.
ENTITY INDEX · WHO APPEARS, BY WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE
The engine never reaches past the record. You never start from a blank page — you start from a corpus you can question.
06 · The Dispatch
The Dispatch. Your Case, in the form you need.
When the case is ready, the engine composes it from the case file's findings into the piece you ship — a white paper, an investigative report, an op-ed, a media script, or a source packet. It chooses emphasis and order from what the corpus already holds. It cannot add a fact, cannot drop the counter, and never writes an attribution. Attributions are injected by code, and a second model verifies the piece against the record before you see it.
For each audience, the emphasis moves; the record does not. Pick a door and watch the order change while the receipts and the counter hold.
Door in: the record, first
- 01In PPIC's May 2026 survey, Californians name cost of living the most important issue.PPIC.ORGSupported
- 0261% of Texas voters are very concerned about the price of gas, up 23 points since February.UTEXAS.EDUSupported
- 0382% of Texas voters are more likely to back candidates who prioritize lowering healthcare prices.TEXAS2036.ORGSupported
- 04More than two-thirds of Mainers are concerned about the cost of living.THEMAINEWIRE.COMSupported
- 05Immigration stays a top-tier issue in Maine, cutting against a purely affordability message.LWVME.ORGCounter — carried
SAME ATOMS · THIS AUDIENCE'S ORDER · THE COUNTER CANNOT BE DROPPED · ATTRIBUTION INJECTED BY CODE, NEVER A MODEL · NEWSROOM PLAYBOOK · ILLUSTRATIVE UNTIL LIVE ENGINE OUTPUT IS CACHED.
Different doors. Same receipts.
07 · Sealed
Sealed. Private by default.
Your documents stay yours. Nothing trains on them. Purge anytime. That is the default, not a setting you go find. Bring your own documents and data; Aculeus uses them only to build your Cases, never sells them, and never trains models on them. You can purge your workspace's intelligence and your uploaded documents on demand. (Fetched public-record source text is deduplicated in a shared cache — it is public record, not your private data.)
On request: Aculeus runs in your own environment, with data residency available — subject to a configured compliant provider and a signed DPA.
The model is a part, not the product.
Aculeus runs on swappable models and verifies every Case across more than one, so no single model's drift goes unchecked. Producing a Case sends content to the model provider you choose, under their terms. Aculeus keeps only what your workspace keeps.
On request: a Western-base model option, for work that cannot use models of certain origin — subject to a configured compliant provider and a signed DPA.
Aculeus learns from your calls on the public record, inside your workspace, for your benefit. It does not train on your documents. Both are true, because they are about different things: your judgment, and your files.
● SEALED · THE PRIVACY GUARANTEE
SOC 2 IN PROGRESS · STATED AS IN PROGRESS · NO BADGE WE DO NOT HOLD.
08 · The honest limits
What we will not do. And when we are the wrong tool.
We carry the counter on every Case. Here is the counter on us. We would rather tell you now than waste your time.
Aculeus will not
- Invent a source. If the record does not carry it, Aculeus does not assert it.
- Drop the counter. The case against rides on every Case, always.
- Fake an attribution. Citations are injected by code, never written by a model.
- Ship without you. A person makes every call. Nothing goes out on its own.
- Paper over a gap. Where the record runs thin, it says so on the page.
When not to use us
- You need a fast hot take. If you want speed over a sourced case, use something else.
- Your claim is not in the record. If it does not live in the public record or your own documents, we cannot source it.
- You want the machine to decide. We are not that. The judgment stays with you.
- You need certainty we cannot give. We give you the record and the counter. We do not promise the answer.
09 · Who it's for
For the work that has to hold up in public.
Newsrooms
Investigative and fact-checking work that has to hold up.
Oversight
Watchdogs and accountability work that answers to a committee.
Advocacy
Issue campaigns that need the record behind the message.
Public affairs
Agencies and counsel who need a defensible read, on the record.
10 · Coverage
We search the whole record and pull the handful that decide the claim.
The systems that hold the primary record: campaign finance, lobbying and foreign-agent filings, the federal spending record, nonprofit 990s, federal dockets, SEC filings, live sanctions. Aculeus searches across all of it and cites every line it pulls.
200M+
Companies
OpenCorporates · 140+ jurisdictions
18M+
SEC filings
EDGAR · full-text since 2001
9M+
Court opinions
CourtListener · federal dockets
Live
Sanctions + PEP
OpenSanctions · refreshed
COVERAGE OF THE SYSTEMS ACULEUS QUERIES. ONE CASE CITES THE FEW THAT MATTER.
11 · Playbooks
Same loop. Different seat.
A playbook is a vertical: the records it watches, what the read means there, who directs the work, and what it composes. Privacy, depth, and a human directing the work hold across all of them.
Live
Newsroom
The case, the counter, the audience-tuned dispatch. Every line back to a primary source.
Live
Oversight
The finding, the record behind it, and what it cannot prove. Built for work that answers to a committee.
Roadmap
Litigation · Markets · Compliance
The same loop, a new seat. Partner with us to pilot one.
12 · How it works
Start with one Case.
Aculeus is at design-partner stage. Engagements are per seat, sized to the work. The fastest way to judge it is to give us a real subject and read the Case it builds.
Starter
One seat · the full loop
A single operator, the whole loop from brief to composed piece. For one person whose work has to hold up.
Pro
A few seats · shared playbooks
Shared playbooks, API access, source-ledger export. For a desk or a shop working the same record.
Scale
White-label · API-first · SLA
Isolated deployment, data residency, an SLA. For an institution that needs the loop inside its own walls.
Built by an operator who has had to stand behind the work, not just build the tool. In business and in politics, the rules are the same: source it, or don't say it.
Jeremy Jones · Founder, Aculeus
18 receipts. 0 guesses.
Every line cites its source. The counter is on the page. You direct the work. See one Case and you will understand the rest.