Trust & verification
SpendLedger republishes official government spending records. A site like this is only useful if you can check it, so we publish our receipts: where every record comes from, the quality gates each data load must pass, and the reconciliation math against each government's own published totals, including whatever part doesn't match.
Verification reports
- How we verify Ohio data (quality gates, reconciliation, known limitations)
- How we verify Oklahoma data (quality gates, reconciliation, known limitations)
- How we verify New York City data (quality gates, reconciliation, known limitations)
- How we verify Florida data (quality gates, reconciliation, known limitations)
- How we verify Chicago data (quality gates, reconciliation, known limitations)
- How we verify Los Angeles data (quality gates, reconciliation, known limitations)
The standing rules
- Official sources only. Bulk data from each government's own transparency portal; the full list is on data sources.
- History is never destroyed. Records are archived exactly as received, append-only, even when a government overwrites its own.
- Deterministic handling. No estimates, no imputation, no fuzzy matching; the rules are on methodology.
- Published reconciliation. Our fiscal-year totals are compared against each government's own figures, and the comparison is public, gap and all.