Municipal finance is about to get uncomfortable.
Your city has money. So where did it go?
We are building a plain-English X-ray of city budgets: spending, debt, payroll, pensions, infrastructure, and the financial decisions hiding in the footnotes.
No partisan spin. No 400-page PDFs. No city-hall word salad. Just the numbers, translated for taxpayers.
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Budget Scan
Seattle
Public Trust
Under Audit
Coming Soon
Debt
Next Layer
Payroll
Follow the money.
We break city budgets into understandable categories so regular people can see what is growing, shrinking, and quietly eating the budget.
Separate the tricks.
Operating budgets, capital projects, utilities, debt, pensions, and transfers are not the same thing. We label them clearly.
Explain the mess.
AI-assisted analysis turns city finance documents into plain-English explanations, comparisons, and red flags worth investigating.