Data in.Intelligence out.
Confident answers are easy. Aculeus puts every claim on trial against the primary record — and files the verdict as publishable, fully-cited media.
Federal grants flowed to a fund whose board spans the grantee. Coastal Futures’ $2.4M FY2024 award01 was its largest on record. An affiliated PAC spent $310,402 that cycle02, and a board member directs the grant’s named subrecipient03.
Data in. Intelligence out.
A chatbot gives you a confident answer. Aculeus puts every claim on trial against the primary record.
Federal grants flowed to a fund whose board spans the grantee. Coastal Futures’ $2.4M FY2024 award01 was its largest on record. An affiliated PAC spent $310,402 that cycle02, and a board member directs the grant’s named subrecipient03.
Three things, held on every Case.
Most tools optimize one of these and trade away the other two. Privacy, depth, and a human on the call hold on every Case.
Sealed.
Your documents stay yours. Nothing trains on them. Purge anytime. No bleed across tenants. Run it in your own environment when the work demands it.
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The work behind the claim.
Aculeus reads the primary record, works out what it means, finds the gaps, runs a second pass, and carries the counter to its own read. Every line has a receipt. Where the record runs thin, it says so on the page.
You make the call.
You and the engine work side by side. It brings the deep read. You question it, cut what is thin, ask for more, and make the call. Nothing ships without you. The work is the engine's. The judgment is yours.
One loop. You make the call.
The Watch surfaces it. The engine builds the Case. You make the Call. Aculeus files the Dispatch. What you kept, cut, and led on banks to your Edge, so the next Case starts from your judgment. All of it stays sealed.
A claim is cheap. The work is everything behind it.
Past capture, Aculeus works out what the record means, looks for what is missing, goes back for it, carries the counter to its own read, and pulls a receipt for every line.
FIVE OF FOURTEEN STAGES SHOWN. THE WORK PAST CAPTURE IS THE PRODUCT.
The Case. The work behind the claim.
A Case is the unit of intelligence. It carries the read, the counter, the signal to watch, and a receipt for every line. Where the record cannot carry a claim, it flags it instead of papering over it. This one is from the Oversight playbook. Tap any claim to open its receipt.
The filings establish a funding relationship and overlapping leadership worth a closer look. They do not, on the current record, establish misuse. The decisive question, whether federal dollars touched registration work, is not answered by any primary document in hand.
Federal awards to advocacy-adjacent nonprofits are common and lawful. The overlapping board role is disclosed on the 990, not concealed, and is not improper on its face. The two-state overlap rests on a program summary and should not be published as fact.
The edge is not pulling it first. It is understanding it first.
The Call. You direct. You decide.
This is the human in the loop, and it is built to feel like running a sharp analyst, not approving a ticket. The engine brings a proposed Case. You direct it line by line — keep what holds, cut what is thin, make a claim the lead — and note what you pushed on. Your notes are private, banked to your Edge, not a chat. When it is right, you make the call. The work is the engine's. The judgment, and the accountability, are yours.
on this call
Your direction is the point. The engine's proposed Case ◇ on the left; your calls and notes ● on the right, banked to your Edge. The engine never ships alone. You never start from a blank page.
The Dispatch. Your Case, in the form you need.
Once you make the call, the engine turns the Case into the piece you publish or file. An op-ed, an article, a report, a memo, a filing. It chooses emphasis and order. It cannot add a fact, cannot drop the counter, and never writes an attribution. Attributions are injected by code, and a second model verifies the dispatch against the record before you see it.
In the Newsroom and Campaign playbooks, a dispatch tunes to the audience in front of you. The emphasis moves. The record does not. Pick a door and watch the order change while the receipts and the counter hold.
- 01In PPIC's May 2026 survey, Californians name cost of living the most important issue.PPIC.ORGSupported
- 0261% of Texas voters are very concerned about the price of gas, up 23 points since February.UTEXAS.EDUSupported
- 0382% of Texas voters are more likely to back candidates who prioritize lowering healthcare prices.TEXAS2036.ORGSupported
- 04More than two-thirds of Mainers are concerned about the cost of living.THEMAINEWIRE.COMSupported
- 05Immigration stays a top-tier issue in Maine, cutting against a purely affordability message.LWVME.ORGCounter — carried
SAME ATOMS · THIS AUDIENCE'S ORDER · THE COUNTER CANNOT BE DROPPED · ATTRIBUTION INJECTED BY CODE, NEVER A MODEL · NEWSROOM PLAYBOOK · ILLUSTRATIVE UNTIL LIVE ENGINE OUTPUT IS CACHED.
Different doors. Same receipts.
Sealed. Private by default.
Your documents stay yours. Nothing trains on them. Purge anytime. That is the default, not a setting you go find. Bring your own documents and data; Aculeus uses them only to build your Cases, never sells them, and never trains models on them. You can purge your workspace's intelligence and your uploaded documents on demand. (Fetched public-record source text is deduplicated in a shared cache — it is public record, not your private data.)
On request: Aculeus runs in your own environment, with data residency available — subject to a configured compliant provider and a signed DPA.
The model is a part, not the product.
Aculeus runs on swappable models and verifies every Case across more than one, so no single model's drift goes unchecked. Producing a Case sends content to the model provider you choose, under their terms. Aculeus keeps only what your workspace keeps.
On request: a Western-base model option, for work that cannot use models of certain origin — subject to a configured compliant provider and a signed DPA.
Aculeus learns from your calls on the public record, inside your workspace, for your benefit. It does not train on your documents. Both are true, because they are about different things: your judgment, and your files.
SOC 2 IN PROGRESS · STATED AS IN PROGRESS · NO BADGE WE DO NOT HOLD.
What we will not do. And when we are the wrong tool.
We carry the counter on every Case. Here is the counter on us. We would rather tell you now than waste your time.
- Invent a source. If the record does not carry it, Aculeus does not assert it.
- Drop the counter. The case against rides on every Case, always.
- Fake an attribution. Citations are injected by code, never written by a model.
- Ship without you. A person makes every call. Nothing goes out on its own.
- Paper over a gap. Where the record runs thin, it says so on the page.
- You need a fast hot take. If you want speed over a sourced case, use something else.
- Your claim is not in the record. If it does not live in the public record or your own documents, we cannot source it.
- You want the machine to decide. We are not that. The judgment stays with you.
- You need certainty we cannot give. We give you the record and the counter. We do not promise the answer.
For the claims you have to defend in public.
We search the whole record and pull the handful that decide the claim.
The systems that hold the primary record: campaign finance, lobbying and foreign-agent filings, the federal spending record, nonprofit 990s, federal dockets, SEC filings, live sanctions. Aculeus searches across all of it and cites every line it pulls.
COVERAGE OF THE SYSTEMS ACULEUS QUERIES. ONE CASE CITES THE FEW THAT MATTER.
Same loop. Different seat.
A playbook is a vertical: the records it watches, what the read means there, who makes the call, and what it dispatches. Each builds its own edge from the calls its experts make. Privacy, depth, and the human on the call hold across all of them.
Newsroom
The case, the counter, the audience-tuned dispatch. Every line back to a primary source.
Oversight
The finding, the record behind it, and what it cannot prove. Built for work that answers to a committee.
Litigation · Markets · Compliance
The same loop, a new seat. Partner with us to pilot one.
Start with one Case.
Aculeus is at design-partner stage. Engagements are per seat, sized to the work. The fastest way to judge it is to give us a real subject and read the Case it builds.
A single operator, the whole loop from Watch to Dispatch. For one person who has to defend the claim.
Shared playbooks, API access, source-ledger export. For a desk or a shop working the same record.
Isolated deployment, data residency, an SLA. For an institution that needs the loop inside its own walls.
Built by an operator who has had to make the call, not just build the tool. In business and in politics, the rules are the same: source it, or don't say it.
18 receipts. 0 guesses.
Every line cites its source. The counter is on the page. You make the call. See one Case and you will understand the rest.