Work

Not the “we built everything perfectly” story — an honest account of what shipped first and why.

PortfolioDream

Live

Congressional stock trading data, tracked and surfaced.

Buy vs. build

The core data — congressional stock trading disclosures — is publicly filed but not publicly usable: scattered across government databases, inconsistent formats, no clean feed. The fast path would have been buying access to an existing aggregator’s data.

Built the pipeline in-house instead. It’s not fully automated yet — that’s the honest state of it today, not a finished system pretending otherwise.