NationGraph News launches today because government spending is weird, important, and wildly uncovered.

Our first stories cover the federal EV charging fund rollout, Berkeley's $3M park, Cities racing to break ground on solar, and a dozen others on what's actually being bought with public dollars right now.

At NationGraph, we’ve spent the past two years building a database of everything state and local governments are buying. We hired hedge fund quants to build prediction models for what they’ll buy next. That’s useful for companies that sell to government, and that’s our day job.

But this data shouldn’t only live inside a B2B product.

We want to know why Colorado is renting goats to fight wildfires. Why towns are buying drones, solar panels, water sensors, and AI cameras. Why the weirdest line item in a city budget is often the most revealing one. And once people hear those stories, they usually want to know too.

So we started NationGraph News on a simple thesis: state and local governments spend more than $2.3 trillion a year, and those decisions: what gets built, what gets cut, what gets bought shape your community more than most of what comes out of Washington.

Almost none of it gets covered anymore.

National outlets chase the macro. We’re going the other way. We’re interested in the purchase orders, contracts, budgets, grants, RFPs, and council meetings that explain what’s actually happening on the ground.

A note on how we work: agents help us find these stories. Our pipeline reads millions of new datapoints as they come in and surfaces what’s worth a closer look. A human is looped into every piece before it goes out. This publication will never be a slop farm.

We’ll publish new stories every weekday. I’ll only run the ones I find genuinely interesting: the ones that made someone on our team stop and say, “wait, really?”

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Ok, that’s all I’ve got for you.

-Matt

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