Accountability infrastructure · A DataVisuals™ product
Prevent it. Or recover it.
Post-payment recovery finds what’s already gone. Decision Pipelines™ governs the award decision before disbursement — the accountability record that makes prevention auditable.
01 / Surface
Real‑time
Risk at the decision.
Duplicate identities, ineligible recipients, and override patterns surface as signals at the decision point — not at post-payment recovery. The Risk Signals Engine raises them; a named owner decides.
See it → Signals rail, with tier-skip planted anomalies.
02 / Prove
5min
Generate an IG-ready packet.
Owner, rationale, evidence, and outcome exported on demand. No six-week reconstruction sprint pulling files out of email.
See it → Inspector compiles owner, rationale, evidence, chain hash, outcome — one export.
03 / Own
100%
Every award has a named owner.
Each consequential decision carries an owner on the record at the moment it’s made. “Who approved this?” has an answer already.
See it → Named-owner enforcement with Claim & Reassign on every matter.
Two halves of accountability
Detection recovers. Governance prevents.
Most agencies fund only the recovery half — and pay the reputational cost of every loss before they get a fraction of the dollar back. Decision Pipelines™ closes the prevention half: every award decision required, owned, and on the record before the disbursement.
Prevention · Decision Pipelines™
Govern the decision in flight.
Every funding decision carries a named owner, structured rationale, and the evidence it rests on — captured before disbursement, defensible after.
The gap
Detection alone starts after the loss.
Recovery is slow, partial, and the reputational damage lands first. By the time fraud is found, the dollar has moved.
Recovery · Fraud detection
Claw back what was paid.
Essential, but reactive. Post-award detection finds patterns, recovers funds, and refers cases — once the money is already out.
You need both. Most agencies only have one.
01 / Where we sit
At the award. Through every tier.
Decision Pipelines™ enters at the federal award decision and stays through the chain — State pass-through allocations, recipient drawdowns, subrecipient reporting. Every decision and every signal in the disbursement lifecycle lands on the same append-only record.
We sit above eligibility
Rules say who qualifies.
We govern the decision made about edge cases, waivers, and overrides — with rationale and named owner attached.
We sit before the payment decision
An owned record, before disbursement.
A flagged award gets an owned, on-record decision — hold, clear, or escalate — captured before disbursement, not reconstructed after a loss. DP records the decision; the payment system enforces it.
We sit beside audit
The record is the file.
The next Inspector General or GAO review reads a structured decision record, not a reconstructed email trail.
We sit inside the workflow
Govern the call, not the task.
Routing tools move the application along. We capture the decision the application represents.
We sit under the recipient
Close the loop with the party the money is going to.
The Recipient portal issues Requests for Response and holds a commitment ledger — every RFR carries its response, timestamp, and named owner on the record.
02 / The record
The same five steps, across every award.
Every grant and entitlement decision becomes structured data — exportable on demand for IG review, audit reconstruction, or program reporting.
01 · Signal
An application, renewal, or risk flag enters the queue with its evidence attached.
02 · Owner
A named program officer takes the decision — on the record, at the moment it’s made.
03 · Decision
Award, deny, hold, or renew — with rationale and the evidence it rests on.
04 · Action
Disbursement, denial notice, or escalation executes against the recorded decision.
05 · Outcome
Result tracks back to the decision that produced it. Override quality is measurable, not assumed.
03 / Coverage
Eight archetypes. One record.
Every consequential funding decision falls into one of eight named archetypes. Each archetype governs a distinct class of call — captured against the same append-only decision anatomy.
Award flows
- Competitive awardScoring, tie-breaks, and reviewer rationale on the record.
- Formula allocationStatutory share calculations with the inputs each rests on.
Recipient-side flows
- Eligibility determinationRules, waivers, and edge-case calls owned before disbursement.
- RecertificationContinuation calls with the evidence each renewal rests on.
- ModificationMid-award changes captured as first-class decisions.
- Payment authorizationEvery drawdown owned at the decision, before the money moves.
Oversight flows
- Adverse actionReferrals, suspensions, and debarments on the same anatomy.
- Identity resolutionDuplicate EIN/SSN and shell-entity calls resolved on the record.
Program Integrity inherits evidence from every archetype above it — one improper-payment posture, one board-level view.
04 / Risk Signals Engine
Risk surfaced at the decision.
Every award runs through the Risk Signals Engine at the decision point. Its fraud-risk screening flags fraud-risk indicators — duplicate identities, excluded parties, mismatched entities — and raises them as signals for an owned decision. The engine surfaces; a named owner decides.
Live: signals run against USAspending federal award data, with planted control cases for demo-mode. Additional connectors — SAM.gov, DUNS — queued.
05 / Inside the workspace
What you’ll see in a briefing.
Two interactive walk-throughs of the current build. The first traces the surfaces end‑to‑end; the second opens a single record and shows the anatomy that produces an IG‑ready packet. Demos use illustrative sample data, including synthetic oversight findings — not actual OIG/GAO audits.
Walk-through 01 Product overview
Login → Matters register → Signals rail → Recipient portal. How the surfaces connect.
Walk-through 02 Award Decisions Inspector
Owner, rationale, evidence, chain-verified integrity, outcome — the single record that becomes the packet.
06 / Get started
Govern the award before you have to recover it.
Request a briefing for your program. We’ll map Decision Pipelines to your highest-exposure funding decisions and show the IG-ready record it produces.