The method
How the engine works.
The engine behind the Vendor Exception Memo: how organizations are resolved, how records are reconciled, and what the review library covers. The memo is the deliverable; this is the machinery.
How it works
Three moves from an organization to a review you can defend.
Resolve the organization
Match names, EINs, registry numbers, addresses, and jurisdictions so each record attaches to the right entity, never to a similar name.
Reconcile the primary record
Compare the same facts across filings, audits, registries, court records, procurement history, and government payments.
Prioritize human review
Return sourced, evidence-graded items with uncertainty, alternative explanations, and the next record that could resolve the question.
The due diligence library
Seventy ways to reconcile identity, records, relationships, and risk.
Thirty-one review indicators and thirty-nine research methods, refined across $11 billion of public spending. The methods stay ours. The six review families they support are below.
What it reviews · six families
- 01
Identity & entity structure
Names, identifiers, addresses, and organizational forms that require reconciliation.
- 02
Relationships & conflicts
Officers, directors, recipients, and counterparties connected across records.
- 03
Cross-filing inconsistencies
The same fact reported differently across filings, agencies, or time periods.
- 04
Procurement & payment patterns
Awards, amendments, payments, and thresholds that warrant document-level review.
- 05
Standing & financial condition
Status changes, filing gaps, liquidity signals, and other responsibility indicators.
- 06
Governance & independence
Roles and professional relationships that may require additional context.
See the evidence trail · a real case
Follow one organization across relationships, payments, and filings.
A real public-record investigation from its evidence file. Click any card to inspect the organization, relationship, or primary record behind it.
Source:hand-curated evidence file for the Operator / Conduit Foundation matter (San Francisco), built from the framework-rerun survivors and the 2026 forensic review. The Operator's own books were examined and cleared; the open leads concern the conduit nonprofit and its disclosures. Party names withheld on this public page; full identities and the underlying records are available on email request, no call required. Nothing here asserts wrongdoing by any individual.
The part most tools hide
It also tells you who it did not flag.
Of 231 entities examined, 42 were cleared on the record. That ledger ships with the work.
- CLEAREDOperator (name on file)EIN EIN on file
Own books examined: clean unmodified audits, $0 provable misuse, growing net assets.
- CLEAREDCompetitive bench primes (BART)EIN N/A
Conflict-of-interest scan returned CLEAR against the awardee set.
- CLEARED~30 further entitiesEIN various
Examined across the 22 investigations and affirmatively cleared: the full list ships with the engagement.