Built with Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and CDR
A fraud alert for taxpayer money.
Frock's AI agents read public contracts, payments and exclusion lists, explain every red flag with its sources, and route it privately to the auditors and watchdogs who can act on it. Nobody is accused. Nothing is published.
Free for 30 days. Invite-only. No payment details needed.
Several awards to one vendor within weeks, each just under the $100,000 small-purchase limit.
- awards
- 3
- window
- 30 d
- $100K each
- Under
Skeptic: innocent explanations considered
- Separate projects with different scopes: unclear until the work orders are read.
- Master agreement with task orders: would explain it. Check the solicitation.
Live from the database
- awards scanned
- 89,602
- years covered
- Since 2006
- flags assessed by AI agents
- 714
- open leads
- 573
- awards at $90K-$100K vs $100K-$110K
- 1,664 vs 1,040
- last scan
- 1 h ago
Aggregates only. Leads for review, not findings. The $100,000 line is the Hawaii small-purchase limit for goods and services; more awards just under it than just over it is a pattern worth a look, not proof of anything.
The problem
Public spending is public, but nobody can read all of it.
Too much to read
Contract awards, exclusion entries and campaign filings sit in separate portals in different formats. Frock has loaded 89,602 awards so far.
Raw alerts are noise
A pattern alone proves nothing. Most unusual-looking awards have an ordinary explanation, and reviewers do not have time to rule out hundreds by hand.
Naming people is dangerous
Publishing a suspicion can ruin a business that did nothing wrong. Leads belong with people who can ask for the records first.
How it works
Five agents, one rule: argue the innocent explanation first.
Each agent has one job. A person makes every decision.
- 01
Scout
Loads public records: contract awards, exclusion lists and campaign finance filings.
- 02
Analyst
Runs statistical checks and produces candidate flags with the exact records behind each.
- 03
Skeptic
Argues the innocent explanation first, then keeps, downgrades or clears the flag.
- 04
Investigator
Writes a sourced dossier and researches reported organizations across the web.
- 05
Router
Sends what survives, privately, to the reviewer with the authority to act.
The checks
Every check is tied to a rule or a recognized audit indicator.
Thresholds, innocent explanations and limitations for each check are written out on the methodology page.
Split contracts
HRS §103D-305
Several awards to one vendor within 30 days, each under the small-purchase limit, that add up to more than it.
Contractor campaign contributions
HRS §11-355
Contributions to candidates by a contractor while it holds a state or county contract.
Excluded vendor still paid
42 U.S.C. §1320a-7 / HHS-OIG LEIE
Awards dated after a business appears on the federal exclusion list.
Payment spikes
Audit risk indicator
A vendor's yearly total far above its own multi-year median.
New vendor, large award
Audit risk indicator
A first-ever award in the top 5% of an agency's award sizes.
Benford's law, agency level
Forensic accounting
Leading-digit patterns in an agency's awards that depart from what natural data looks like. Describes agencies, never vendors.
Verticals
One engine, a new pack of data and checks per area of spending.
Each vertical adds connectors and rules to the same agents. Data availability below was verified against the live sources.
State and county contracts
Hawaii HANDS awards, the HHS-OIG exclusion list and Campaign Spending Commission records, with five checks running daily.
Medicaid providers and care homes
CMS health-center enrollments and owners, Hawaii care-home inspection reports and plans of correction, state and federal exclusion lists.
Medicare post-acute care
Nursing, home-health and hospice ownership with CMS penalties and deficiencies, joined on the same owner records.
Federal grants and nonprofits
USAspending awards, Single Audit findings and IRS 990 filings, linked to state vendors by EIN and name.
39 → 0
Matching Hawaii health-center owners to the federal exclusion list by name alone gave 39 hits. Requiring a second identifier left none. Raw matches are mostly false positives, which is why every Frock flag passes the Skeptic agent and a person before it goes anywhere.
For the public
Saw something? Report a concern, anonymously if you prefer.
Records show patterns. People see what the records cannot.
Anonymous option
Contact details are optional. You get a tracking code to check the status of your report.
Agents research the organization
The Investigator checks federal awards, nonprofit filings, SEC records and the open web, and tests each claim against what it can source.
Findings go only to reviewers
What you report is never published and never shown on a public page.
Private by design
Built so a lead cannot become an accusation.
Invite-only
Only approved reviewers can open a flag.
Every claim sourced
Each flag links to the public record behind it.
Audit log
Every view, verdict and referral is recorded.
Redaction and no public names
Demo mode hides vendor names. Public pages show aggregates only.
Data sources
Public records, loaded and counted.
Row counts below are read from the database at request time.
Loaded records
- Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission contributions99,507 rows
- Hawaii HANDS contract awards89,602 rows
- HHS-OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities84,093 rows
- USDA SNAP retailers and decisions (Hawaii)2,587 rows
Live research sources
- USAspending.govFederal awards to an organization
- ProPublica Nonprofit ExplorerIRS Form 990 data
- SEC EDGARPublic company filings
- The open webNews, registries and court records
Who it is for
People who already do this work and lack the hours.
State think tanks
Turn public records into sourced research leads without a data team.
Auditors and inspectors general
Receive pre-screened, explained leads with the records to request already listed.
Investigative journalists
Find patterns worth a public-records request, with the innocent explanations already considered.
Pricing
Start with a free 30-day pilot.
No payment is collected on this site. Talk to us and we will set up access.
Pilot
Free for 30 days
Private access for one organization on Hawaii data.
State
Per state, annual
Ongoing monitoring of a state's records with reviewer routing. Talk to us.
Agency
Custom
Internal screening for an auditor or inspector general's office.
See what your state's records say.
A 30-day pilot is free. Leads stay private, and every one comes with its sources.