For cities · from the fraud sample

Two products the scandal map says cities should pay for.

Of 32 U.S. city cases since 2021, 17 would have shown up in transaction files cities already keep, 3 might have hinted in budget totals, and 12 never posted to the books at all. Adopted PDFs are not the product. These two are.

Monthly · transaction ledger

Verified Check

Upload the checkbook, cards, and payroll. Earn the public mark that this city is the most transparent.

$2,400per city / month

Adopted budgets almost never catch treasury theft. The city's own AP, P-card, and payroll files do — when they are published on a usable schedule and read every month.

Monthly upload of vendor/EFT register, itemized P-cards, named payroll, and related feeds
Pattern analysis drawn from the U.S. city fraud sample: personal merchants, extra checks, split payments, related-party payees, vague purposes
A public Verified Check on the city page — only while the feed is current
A score against the disclosures that would have flagged real scandals

Billed monthly because the value is a live feed, not a one-time PDF. Miss a month and the badge lapses.

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Premium · mapped cities

Budget Simulator

Upload proposed budgets A, B, and C. Simulate the year, then measure against estimated and actuals so the next round is smarter.

$1,500per city / month

We already map adopted budgets and the estimated year beside them. The missing product is to try the next book before it is voted, then score those scenarios when actuals land.

Works on every city OpenGovs has already extracted
Load adopted totals as the baseline; upload or edit scenarios A, B, C
Simulated results vs the estimated year: movers, concentration, risk offices
When actuals exist, MAPE vs estimated — learned department biases feed the next simulation

Premium add-on on mapped cities. Planning season is yearly; the learning loop is monthly as actuals and amendments come in.

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What the sample said to publish

Ranked by how many of the 32 cases that extra record would have helped. Verified Check is the monthly product for the top of this list. The simulator is for the adopted books we already map — 19 cities so far.

Itemized purchasing-card statements

Merchant, employee, date, amount, and business purpose — not a lumped 'supplies' or 'travel' line.

12cases

Full vendor / EFT check register

Every disbursement with legal payee name, amount, date, department, and payment method. Employee-payee and related-entity payments should be flagged.

11cases

Named payroll and overtime

Employee, job title, regular pay, overtime hours, extra checks, and pension contributions versus the council-approved salary schedule.

11cases

Vendor beneficial ownership

Who owns the companies the city pays, crosswalked to officials, spouses, and staff. Related-party leases and consulting firms do not show up as 'fraud' in a department total.

10cases

Gift, lobbying, and restricted-source logs

Contractors buying meals, trips, ranch work, or charity donations for the officials who set their rates or award their contracts.

9cases

Bank confirms independent of the finance director

Someone other than the person who writes journal entries must see raw bank statements. Altered PDFs are a known concealment method.

6cases

Fraud map · 19 mapped cities can open the simulator today.