HOW IT WORKS
How the layer works.
Aculeus is the intelligence layer that reads the public record, keeps the documents, and ties every finding to its source. Starglass is built on it.
Every Starglass answer keeps the four habits below and draws on the official sources the layer reads.
Four habits behind every answer.
ONE RECORDA filing lands. A public company reports a federal contract award. The record posts to the public ledger.
01 · CAPTURE
The document, not the link.
When a document matters, Aculeus goes and gets it and keeps the file. Everything after this is built on the captured page, not on a summary of it.
ON ONE RECORDAculeus captures it. The document is fetched and kept as a file, with the page it came from.
02 · CITE
To the page and the words.
Every claim points at the passage it came from. Open a citation with a located passage and the captured document opens at those words.
ON ONE RECORDThe claim is cited. The award figure is tied to the exact words on the exact page.
03 · CHALLENGE
We argue with our own findings.
“We found nothing” is re-checked against the documents before it stands. A figure that differs between two sources is shown with both, never quietly resolved.
ON ONE RECORDThe claim is challenged. The figure is checked against the company's own filing. If the two disagree, both are shown.
The layer publishes the result of that argument:
04 · RECEIPT
What was searched, and what was not.
Every result leaves with a receipt that names the sources searched, the sources not searched, and what stays open.
ON ONE RECORDIt leaves with a receipt. What was searched, what was not, what stays open.
The sources the layer reads.
The layer runs on , plus web and PDF capture for the records that have no connector.
- PUBLIC SOURCES CONNECTED
- SEC EDGAR
- FEC / DATA.GOV
- COURTLISTENER
- USASPENDING
- OPENSANCTIONS
- PROPUBLICA 990s
- SENATE LDA
- GOVINFO
- REGULATIONS.GOV
- WEB AND PDF CAPTURE
Starglass
Private research workbench
Get a cited Quick Answer in your browser, or connect official source tools to your own AI client. The free trial covers both.
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Choose Quick Answer or Deep Research.
Both begin with the same question and material. You decide whether you need a cited response now or a planned research pass that becomes a Living Case.
Use Quick Answer for a focused response you can keep discussing. It does not create a Case automatically.
Starglass keeps the full conversation and attached files together, then drafts an editable Case Plan before research starts.
- 01Question + materialSTART
Choose Quick Answer or Deep Research. Deep Research keeps the question and attached files together in the composer. - 02Case PlanSHAPE
Review the editable Case Plan, amend it in chat, then choose Start research. Nothing runs before that decision. - 03Living CaseCONTINUE
The finished Case keeps cited source links, the conversation, follow-up questions, and controls to add research.
Structured data enters the same Starglass workbench.
Start a shared, workspace-scoped Data Project. Ask Starglass a question or run a deterministic check, then keep the useful finding with the project team.
- PRIVACYPrivate rows, useful shared findings.Raw rows stay private. Starglass sees bounded schema profiles and computed aggregates, not raw rows, filenames, or private object URLs.
- NEXT STEPOptional Deep Research.You can optionally carry a material finding into an editable Deep Research Case Plan. Nothing auto-starts, and many data findings stay useful without becoming Cases.
Deep Research pauses at the plan.
Starglass turns the conversation and files into an editable Case Plan. Review it, amend it in chat, then choose Start research. No research pass starts before that decision.
Nothing runs while you are still shaping the Case Plan.
The answer, sources, and thread stay together.
Completed Deep Research lands in a source-backed Living Case. It is not a one-time answer or a finished file: the cited links, current conversation, and open questions remain available as the work grows.
Keep asking. Add research when you need it.
Ask a follow-up from the current source set, or prepare another source-backed pass for a new angle or an update. The next pass folds into the same Living Case instead of starting a disconnected file.
- 01Ask a follow-upQuestion the current Case and keep the conversation moving.
- 02Research a new anglePrepare another editable plan for a new source-backed pass.
- 03Check for updatesRevisit the subject with a focused follow-up pass.
The same research, from your own AI tools.
Starglass is also an MCP server. MCP is the open standard AI tools use to connect to outside services. Your AI client can list sources, search official public records, fetch a bounded passage with its citation receipt, and check supplied evidence. Your AI client does the reasoning and keeps the conversation.
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