About Officium

Most congressional money trackers are built for investors who want to follow (or bet on) lawmakers' stock trades. Officium is built for a different audience: journalists, researchers, watchdogs, good-government groups, and engaged citizens who want to understand conflicts of interest and influence.

What makes Officium different

• Integrated dossiers, not isolated lists: One place for a member's trades, conflict timing flags, foreign-agent (FARA) and lobbying filings, official House/Senate financial disclosures, privately sponsored travel, ethics cases, outside spending, and research signals such as wealth + market gains, wealth jumps with trading, opaque finances, and gift/travel activity. See the glossary for plain-English definitions.
• Pattern detection as a first-class feature: We don't just show raw filings. Our algorithms flag trades suspiciously close to legislative activity and surface severity — turning noise into actionable red flags.
• Generous freemium: Trades, patterns, disclosures, lobbying, donors, travel, ethics, and votes for current members are open without an account. A free email signup (no password) unlocks former-official and pre-2023 views in the app (plus terminated FARA depth).
• Research-grade and machine-friendly: Dynamic sitemap, raw JSON at /data/*.json, JSON-LD on profiles, and a public data-gaps audit. Built for humans and automated systems.

Freemium is not a security boundary. Every dataset under /data/*.json remains publicly downloadable — intentional for researchers and journalists. Email sign-in does not encrypt, hide, or privatize government filings; it only unlocks historical navigation in the UI.

• Modern research UX: Powerful ⌘K Command Palette, private per-user research notes on dossiers, watchlists, comparison tools, beautiful calm design that works on mobile.

What is “real” vs. automated?

• Official records — STOCK Act stock trades (PTR filings), House/Senate financial disclosures, FEC campaign finance, LDA lobbying filings, FARA foreign-agent registrations, ethics cases, GovTrack votes, and sponsored-travel disclosures.
• Automated flags — Conflict Patterns compare trade dates to bill introductions. Research hints on dossiers (donor timing, committee overlap, wealth badges) use simple rules on top of public data.
• We do not mix them — Inferred trade rows are not shown as disclosures. Timing flags are labeled as computer-generated leads, not legal findings.

Coverage is incomplete for many members — explore who is missing data on the Data Catalog gaps explorer. We publish limitations openly so you can judge every number.

Next.js 16 + TanStack Query + Zustand + D3. Originally ported from a production Vite app. Data is public domain / CC0 where applicable. This site exists to make congressional influence research faster, deeper, and more accessible than the fragmented official sources or investor-focused alternatives.