C.F.A.I. stands for Civic Free Access Intelligence. CFVA stands for Central Federal Virtual Archive with AI Intelligence. A public records intelligence platform currently indexing millions of entities across many federal data sources — and growing daily. Every enforcement action, sanction, recall, exclusion, and violation aggregated from official government APIs into a single searchable index. No opinions. No editorializing. Just public record.
The basic search and entity data is free. Always. No paywalls on public records. Public data belongs to the public. An advanced intelligence layer may be introduced in the future — but we decided, even with overhead costs, that everything you see today stays free to use.
No bulk downloads. Misuse of this platform for automated scraping, bulk data extraction, or any purpose that violates U.S. law is strictly prohibited.
Early in development we experimented with subscription tiers. It felt like the obvious path to sustainability. But it created the wrong dynamic — putting a price on public records that the government publishes freely felt fundamentally wrong. The data doesn't belong to us. It belongs to the record. We removed every paywall. That decision is permanent.
The database grows every day. New records added. New sources connected. New entities discovered. We are building something that gets better on its own — automatically, continuously, without stopping. More people will join this mission as it grows. The goal was never to launch a product. The goal is to build something permanent that serves the public for generations.
Follow the full story at cfvasignal.com — the open intelligence journal documenting the time it was built and brainstormed, where this platform is going, and why it exists.
Disclaimer
All data is sourced exclusively from official U.S. government APIs and public databases. C.F.A.I. does not scrape, modify, or editorialize government records. Information is presented as-is from its original source. This platform is not affiliated with any government agency. For informational purposes only.