ericdiamason/fiscaltrace

public expenditure intelligence engine - extracts, structures, and scores government financial data from Liberia's public budget documents # FiscalTrace — Public Expenditure Intelligence Engine **Transforms Liberia's public financial documents into structured, queryable intelligence.** **Live demo:** fiscaltrace.ericdiamason.tech **Public API:** fiscaltrace.ericdiamason.te… **Overview:** fiscaltrace.ericdiamason.te… Part of the Eric Dia Mason intelligence systems portfolio — see also OmniSight. --- ## What this is FiscalTrace is an autonomous pipeline that ingests public government financial documents — national budgets, audit reports, procurement records — extracts structured data, and exposes it through a live REST API and dashboard. **Current coverage: Government of Liberia — FY2025 budget** - 117 spending entities (ministries, agencies, commissions) - 11 government sectors - $818M in FY2025 budget allocations structured and queryable - 6 fiscal years of data per entity (FY2023 actual through FY2027 projection) - 49+ entities automatically flagged for budget changes over 20% These numbers are live — call `/api/v1/overview` for the current figures rather than trusting what's written here. This README will go stale; the API can't. --- ## The problem it solves Governments publish financial data as required by law — but as PDFs, Word files, and scanned documents. A journalist investigating where $10M in education funding went spends weeks manually reading hundreds of pages. A World Bank analyst comparing procurement across 12 ministries copies numbers into spreadsheets for days. FiscalTrace automates all of that — and surfaces the anomalies automatically, without anyone having to know what to look for first. **What it found automatically, from one 625-page PDF, in under 4 seconds:** - **262.6% budget increase** — Ministry of Agriculture (FY2023: $3.7M → FY2025: $13.4M) - **74.5% budget cut** — Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment ($7.8M → $2M) - **52.2% cut** — National Disaster Management Agency ($1.4M → $676K) - **145.7% execution rate** — Ministry of Fina …