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Research AI - ask a research question in plain words and two AIs answer side by side, using this site's live searches. Every answer lists its sources. AI can be wrong, so check what matters at the original source.

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Investigate a company or person - identity, federal money, news and website history in one place
Government contracts and grants - who got the money, from which agency, for what
Is a company a federal contractor? - its total federal awards
Records in a state - courts, business filings, licences, public-records requests
Historical government records - National Archives catalog
News coverage of a topic - who reported what, and when
A web page that changed or vanished - saved copies in the Wayback Machine
What a place looks like from space - satellite pictures, fires, disasters
Government datasets - open-data portals, searched live

Live lookup tools

Each tool searches one public source, live, and has its own page. Results can be read aloud, copied with a citation, or saved as a spreadsheet.

News and media

News coverage
News articles and current events from outlets worldwide (The Guardian and The New York Times as a backup).
Archived pages
Whether a web page was saved, and what it said before it changed or was removed.
YouTube videos
Recent YouTube videos, including footage posted by witnesses, channels and news outlets.

People and research

Who or what is this?
An organization, person or place, with its official website and registry numbers.
Research papers
Scholarly studies and academic research only, not news.
National Archives
Historical federal records, documents and files from the National Archives Catalog.

Government money

Federal contracts and grants
Individual government contracts and grants: what was bought, who got the money, which agency, how much.
A company's federal money
One company's total federal awards (use Federal contracts and grants to see the individual contracts).
SEC filings
A public company's own SEC filings: annual and quarterly reports, current-event reports, proxy statements, insider trading.
Political money
PACs, super PACs and party committees, money organizations have given to them, and nonprofits, with what these records cannot show.

Places and events

Satellite images
Recent satellite pictures of a place, with the date and cloud cover.
Fires and heat detections
Heat detections seen by NASA satellites near a place, usually fires.
Disaster alerts
Earthquakes, cyclones, floods, volcanoes and wildfires worldwide from the last few days.

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State Resources

Official state-level public records, court, business, and licensing resources - pick a state from the map or a dropdown.

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Federal Resources

US federal-level public records and government resources - courts, filings, FOIA, open data.

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Non-Government Resources

General journalism/training resources - not government-specific.

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Software

Open-source software useful for OSINT/journalism work - encryption, browsers, office tools, etc.

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