Public records are fragmented; build AI indexing and verified archive search

Public records are fragmented; build AI indexing and verified archive search targets a $1.5B = 150,000 organizations × $10K ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% per year — estimated growth for digital publishing tools and investigative research spend (industry reports from Pew Research and Statista on digital news investment).

Key trends driving demand: AI-native search — improvements in OCR and NER make automated indexing of heterogeneous documents reliable enough to surface investigative leads and link entities across files.; Demand for provenance — publishers and researchers increasingly require verifiable source chains and exportable research packages to fight misinformation and legal risk.; Open records + leaks availability — more FOIA returns, published databases and leaks create a continuously growing corpus of primary materials to index and monetize.; Mobile-first research workflows — journalists increasingly use tablets and phones in the field, creating demand for mobile-friendly access and offline packages..