Mapping the Money
Florida campaign finance records are public, but even insiders get dizzy trying to track the money.
The state posts raw data, entered by hundreds of treasurers around the state. At scale, you get a fog of duplicate names, abbreviations and addresses typed five different ways.
Our newest project on HELLOFLA is a committee map that helps clear the fog of campaign finance. Phase One is almost live. It is the structure layer.
It starts by anchoring every political committee to the official state list, so each committee appears once, under a stable identity. From there, it maps the real connections that make campaigns function.
Shared treasurers. Shared chairs. Shared registered addresses. These are the quiet links that tie operations together across races and election cycles.
Social Graphing for Politics
It's social graphing applied to politics. Instead of looking at committees as isolated dots, the map shows the relationships that turn separate entities into a working network.
It reveals who is operating out of the same offices, who is managing multiple campaigns at once, and where political infrastructure quietly concentrates.
It is the part of the system most voters never see, and most reporters do not have the time or tools to reconstruct by hand.
Behind the scenes is a proprietary backend pipeline built for one job: turning chaotic public records into something coherent. It cleans and organizes campaign data at scale and matches records using consistent rules.
Then we manually clean whatever falls below a certain threshold. The goal is simple but powerful. When you look at the map, you are not guessing.
You are seeing the same committee, the same operation, the same network, clearly and consistently.
The subscription service that will follow overlays the money in realtime. Contributions and committee-to-committee transfers are layered onto the same structure map, so you can see how funds move through the network, where they concentrate, and how they are routed before they hit your candidates.
It turns donor intelligence into something visual and usable, without forcing anyone to live inside spreadsheets and PDFs.
For the first time, Florida voters will have a coherent picture of the infrastructure that moves money through their politics. Not guesses. Not approximations. The actual network, clear as day.
This is what transparency looks like when you apply modern tools to dusty public records. It is not about scandal. It is about clarity. It is about turning a fog into a map.
Stay tuned.