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.

Per-state verification reports

• How we verify Ohio data (quality gates, reconciliation, known limitations)
• How we verify Oklahoma 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 state 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 the state's own figures, and the comparison is public, gap and all.