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BallotBase makes political money easier to understand. Public campaign finance data is technically available, but it is messy, fragmented, and hard to use. BallotBase takes that data and turns it into clear intelligence about donors, candidates, committees, and races.

It helps campaign teams, consultants, lobbyists, journalists, and researchers understand who is funding whom, how candidates stack up, and what the money reveals beneath the surface. With donor network analysis, pattern recognition, and contradiction analysis, BallotBase surfaces the signals people usually miss: recurring funders, aligned interests, unusual money flows, and gaps between what campaigns say publicly and who is actually backing them.

Axed is a layoff intelligence tracker that brings public context to corporate workforce cuts. The project aggregates layoff announcements, WARN notices, company statements, hiring activity, financial performance, and public-source reporting into one searchable database.

Instead of only tracking who laid off workers, Axed aims to show the broader picture: whether a company is still hiring, how often it has cut headcount, what its financials look like, and what public records or reporting support each event. The goal is to make layoffs easier to understand for workers, journalists, analysts, and the public by turning scattered announcements and filings into structured, source-backed insight.