C.F.A.I.
Civic Free Access Intelligence
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C.F.A.I. aggregates federal and state enforcement records into one searchable platform — and is building the public accountability score that reflects everything the government has already documented. Permanently indexed. Impossible to purchase.
We take enforcement actions, consent orders, complaint data, sanctions listings, court records, and regulatory violations — and make them searchable across every relevant agency simultaneously.
The FTC issued that enforcement action. The DOJ filed that settlement. We didn't write any of it. We just made it impossible to miss.
The gap between information existing and information being accessible is where accountability goes to die. A journalist has to know which agency to check. An investor has to know which database to query.
We built the cross-reference. Search once. See everything.
"The problem was never that the information didn't exist. The problem was that finding it required resources most people don't have. We fixed that."
This platform was built by one person — a former nurse from East Germany who taught himself to code, built the infrastructure from scratch, and has no investors, no board, no enterprise clients, and no financial incentive to make any result look better or worse than the public record says it is.
That independence is not incidental. It is the product.
Federal enforcement data is not the government's property to hoard. It is the result of public institutions, funded by taxpayers, documenting the behavior of entities that operate in public markets.
The public paid for that documentation. The public deserves access to it — without a law degree, without a government login, without knowing in advance which of 43 agencies to check.
The database grows every day automatically. New enforcement actions are indexed without manual intervention. Historical trajectory data — how a company's record has moved over years — cannot be purchased by any competitor at any price.
It has to be earned through time. Every day that passes, that gap widens.
The long-term vision is a platform that generations will use — not because it was marketed aggressively, but because it was built honestly, sourced transparently, and designed to serve the public rather than the entities it tracks.
Laws change. Administrations change. That principle does not.
The score starts at 100. Every verified federal or state enforcement action deducts points according to a published, transparent formula. No opinions. No editorializing. Just arithmetic applied to public record.
The score covers everything — not just AI compliance. FTC consumer protection, financial violations, sanctions, state enforcement records. AI violations carry their own weight within the full picture. The score has no artificial floor. A deeply negative score reflects a deeply documented record. The number being uncomfortable does not make it wrong.
"Scores on cfva.ai are derived exclusively from public federal and state enforcement records. They cannot be purchased, negotiated, or removed. A score reflects public record — nothing more, nothing less. If your record improves, your score improves. That is the only path."
We did not write the enforcement actions. We did math on public record. You cannot send a cease and desist to a .gov URL.
The most constructive path is to let the record improve through genuine behavioral change and resolved cases. That is the only thing that moves the score. We genuinely look forward to the day your score is 100.
C.F.A.I. is a public information aggregation platform. We are not affiliated with any government agency. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. We are not a financial advisory service. We are not a credit reporting agency under FCRA — we score companies and institutions, not individual consumers.
All data is sourced exclusively from official U.S. government APIs, public databases, and verified state enforcement records. We do not scrape, modify, or editorialize government records. Information is presented as-is from its original source with direct links to source documentation.
For informational purposes only. Do not make financial, legal, or business decisions based solely on information here without conducting your own due diligence and consulting qualified professionals.
If you believe a record is incorrectly attributed to your entity, you may submit a dispute through our contact channel. Documented corrections are reviewed and applied. We have no interest in inaccuracy — our credibility rests entirely on being right.
"This platform will not be argued out of existence. Public information is public. The right to aggregate and present public government records is foundational to a functioning free press, open research, and civic accountability. That right is not subject to negotiation with the entities whose public records are being presented."