Civic Tech
BudgetWatch
Make state budgets readable by the people who fund them
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Overview
BudgetWatch parses published budget documents into a searchable, comparable dataset.
The problem
State budgets are published as thousand-page PDFs that almost nobody can meaningfully read.
The solution
BudgetWatch extracts line items into a structured dataset with year-on-year comparison and plain-language summaries.
Who it's for
Journalists, civic organisations and engaged citizens.
How it works
Budget PDFs are parsed into line items, mapped to a consistent taxonomy across years, and served through a search interface with charts.
What's next
Project-level tracking against actual disbursement data.
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