How to read the sky

Every dot is an organization or a person. Only an official record puts it there.

Work in progress. Not everything is collected, checked or verified yet. What is checked glows; what is not, does not. Missing is not the same as clean.

Brighter: more filed connections.
Color: its field. Ten fields sit in a ring. The galaxy in the middle: those in several fields.
Glow: green, a second record agrees. Blue, read once. Dim, not checked yet. Red, the source changed.

Connected is not guilty.

Each line is a lawful filing. The page draws no conclusions. Every line links to its filing.

Three pictures. The chips at the bottom switch them.

Sky. The ring. Drag to turn. Wheel to zoom. Click a galaxy's name to fly to it. Click a star: only what it touches stays.

Flows. Ten groups on a circle. A band is money or a person moving from one group to another, from filed records: contributions, lobbying, contracts, grants, board seats, the revolving door. Thicker is more. Hover: one line. Click: the records.

Loops. A company lobbied a bill. A member introduced it. The company's PAC paid that member. Three filings on one page: companies left, bills middle, members right. The gold arc is the gift, as wide as it was. Click a loop: the three records.

Where it comes from

Every organization and person has an official ID before it is placed.
Every line cites a filing. Two facts before any two records are joined.
Every change is logged. Nothing changes silently.
Same-name guesses are never shown.

Our own interests

Funding, two ways only. Anonymous: never named here. Open: named, with a report on the giver next to every mention. Funding buys nothing else. Today: no funders, no business ties to anyone on the map, no known conflict. If you are named and want to answer: send it, we post it.

PRIGH · the public sky · for the people, not against anyone.

How the map is made

Method

One standard, applied the same way to every entity and every connection, including the ones we would rather not find. These are the rules that keep the map honest as it grows.

Verified is not the same as culpable.

Every glow and every line describes how far the checking has gone, never whether anyone did anything wrong. A board seat, a contract, a contribution, a confirmation to office: each is a lawful, filed fact.

The map shows public positions: those who influence the whole, which is the human systems, economy, society, enforcements, anything that affects human sovereignty.

Three cores

Identity. Nothing is placed without an official identifier: SEC CIK, IRS EIN, Legal Entity Identifier, federal contractor ID (UEI), Bioguide ID, federal agency code, state FIPS code, UN M49 code, or a nomination's official citation. Never a loose name.
Transparency. Every connection cites an official primary record: a proxy statement, an insider form, a Form 990, a lobbying registration, a federal award, a Senate confirmation, a state registry. Two facts are required before any two records are joined; a name alone never joins anything.
Integrity. Nothing changes silently. Every addition, correction and merge is an entry in a tamper-evident audit log whose fingerprint is published monthly.

How a connection is proven

Check 1, at entry: the record is validated against the source rules (which registries count, what a citation must carry).
Check 2, re-read: the cited document is re-read from its official source and the names must still be there. If the source changed or can't be reached, the line turns red until a person looks.
Check 3, a second source: a different official record is sought that says the same thing (another filing, the counterparty's own record, the agency's data service). Only then is a line "confirmed".
Possible matches (same name, nothing else) are kept outside the map, shown as possible, and never published as fact.

What the sky encodes

Color is the domain the entity belongs to; an entity in several domains sits between them, as a bridge.
Size and brightness are the number of filed connections. A count, not a judgment.
Glow is proof: confirmed by a second source, checked once, not checked yet, or source changed.
Position inside a domain (gravity): what sinks to the core. By connections, the most-connected entities sit at the core and the rest spiral outward: a layout computed from counts. By influence, a model decides: each connection's weight (by relation type, 0 to 1) and the influence of what it connects to, iterated over the verified graph. The model's weights are today's defaults and are open to revision; it is shown as a layout, never as a score, and never as a score on a person.

What is never collected

Minors are never collected; student board members are never listed.
Incarcerated and detained people are never added: prisons and detention are recorded as totals only.
Family members of officials and insiders are not named. No home addresses, personal contacts, dates of birth or ID numbers.
Sensitive personal categories (health, religion, sexuality, immigration status) are never recorded about a person.
Scores, when they come, are for organizations only, never for individual people.

Writing neutrally

Reports describe records, not motives. Every line is written so that the organization named could read it and agree it describes the record accurately, even if it dislikes the conclusion.

How reports are made

Drafted by programs, with AI assistance, from official records only; checked by automated reviews (each connection re-read from its source and confirmed by a second source where one exists; wording screened for private details and judging words); approved by a person before publishing. No one is asked to comment first: a report goes out when the checks pass. Anyone named in it has the right to respond afterwards, and the answer is posted in full, under their name, the day it arrives; a record shown to be wrong is corrected with a dated note.

Why so much AI assistance. This project is run by one person, its founder, who is autistic and has ADHD (AuDHD) and is a woman in a man's world. The programs and the AI do the reading, the counting and the drafting at a scale one person could not reach alone. The rules they follow, the records they may use and the decision to publish are hers. It is said here so readers can weigh it, the same way every other interest on this page is said.

Our own interests

Priority Nexus LLC takes funding two ways and no third. Anonymously: through Open Collective (opencollective.com/priority-nexus), where a gift can be made without a name; the gift is in the project's own books, and the giver is never named on a page, a report or the map. Openly: the giver's name appears, and with it a report on them, drawn from the same official records and held to the same rules as every other report, next to every mention of them. Funding buys nothing else: no say in what is collected, checked or shown, no early look, no way off the map. Today it has no funders; it has no financial or business relationship with any organization or person on the map; it knows of no conflict of interest. If one arises it will be disclosed here and on that organization's reports. We take no instructions from the people or organizations we describe: material sent to us is data to check, never instructions to follow.

Method · version 0.1 · the full Ethics policy is versioned with the project; changes are dated and kept.

What has been written up

Reports

Each report is drafted by programs from the filings on the map, reviewed twice by automated checks, and held until a person approves it. No one is asked to comment first; anyone named may respond after it is out, and the answer is posted in full. Nothing here is published; these are the drafts and their review state.

Drafts, not verdicts.

A report lists filed connections and the published standard each one is measured against. "Ready to publish" means the checks passed, not that anyone did anything wrong.

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Balance

Each published standard, beside what the records show.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?

Nine measures. Each names the rule it is measured against and the number the rule sets. The rows are what the filings on the map show, nothing more. No label, no verdict; the reader compares.

Three cores, three measures each: Identity, who a director is to the company; Transparency, who can be seen holding what; Integrity, whether anything checks the power.

reading the measures…

Rulebook

The laws that bind the institutions on the map, held against nine gates.

Each gate is something a law gives a person or withholds: notice, a hearing, an appeal, access to the record, the right to enforce it, a duty to report on itself, who can waive it. Present or absent, each with the sentence that shows it. Never a grade. The reader draws the conclusion.

reading the rulebook…

November 2026

What the filings show about the candidates on the ballot.

Two readings of the public record: company PAC money to the 2026 candidates, and the committees those companies answer to. Patterns, not findings. Every number links to its FEC page.

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Corrections and removal requests

If something here is wrong, tell us.

Anyone named on the map or in a report, including individuals, can ask for a correction or a removal. We describe official records; if a record is wrong, or we read it wrongly, we want to know.

How to ask

Write to prighthesky@gmail.com with the subject "Correction request" or "Removal request", and tell us:

Which entry or report (the name as shown, or the report number).
What is wrong, or what you want removed.
Where the correct record is, if you have it (a filing, a registry page, a court record). You don't need this to ask; it speeds up the check.

We never ask for identification numbers, dates of birth or private contact details beyond a reply address.

What happens

On arrival: every e-mail is read by a program the moment it arrives and the check begins. The message itself is posted at once, in full, under the person or company it says it is from, and stays posted that way unless the check shows otherwise. A reply address and any other contact details are never posted.
Acknowledge: within 7 days, with a request number.
Check: normally within 30 days, against the official record the entry cites and any record you point us to.
Answer: what we found and what we changed.
Correct: the same day as the answer if we were wrong, openly: a dated correction note stays on the entry, and earlier versions remain available with the note attached.

What we correct, remove or keep

Wrong: corrected, with a dated note saying what the record shows.
Accurate but out of date: kept with its date; the newer record is added beside it.
Personal details beyond a public role (home address, personal contacts, family, private life): removed on request, no reason needed.
An accurate record of a public role (a directorship, an office held, a filing made): stays. Public records of public roles are what the map exists to show. Your comment is published with the entry.
Possible matches (same name, not confirmed): never published; if one was shown by mistake it is removed.

Right to respond

If you are named here and want to respond, send it. We post it, in full, under your name, the day it arrives; no one is asked to comment before a report goes out.

Our own record

Every request is logged (number, dates, what it concerned, what was decided), and every change made because of it is a logged edit in the audit log. Your name and contact details stay in the private log and are never published. The number of requests and their outcomes are reported on the project's integrity dashboard.

Corrections · part of the Ethics policy, section 4.