VERAGEN
Sign in Sign up

Home / Case Studies / PaidFor.ai

Case study · PaidFor.ai

Skip the speeches. Read the receipts.

PaidFor.ai shows who paid America’s elected officials and how they voted: their donors, the money set beside their votes, and a cited source for every single figure. Nonpartisan by design, free to use, and built 100% with VeraGen.

Visit paidfor.ai Watch the build
Built withBrand StudioData ManagementTellagentChimpMercato
PaidFor 100% built with VeraGen

Nonpartisan “follow the money” research · paidfor.ai

Case Study: PaidFor.ai on YouTube

Watch PaidFor.ai being built.

Nothing staged: each episode is recorded in the real product as the company is built. 4 episodes so far, 12 minutes.

Episode 1 · Brand Studio · 3:13

Building a Brand That Trusts No One

From a sketch to brand v1.0 in Brand Studio: the logo concepts, the palette, the look and the cynical voice, through to approval.

The playlist

Every episode, in order.

Watch the full playlist on YouTube
Video thumbnail: Follow the Receipts3:45

Episode 2 · Data Management

Follow the Receipts

The data model in Data Management: the entities, the sources register (FEC, Congress.gov, Open States, state portals) and what is covered.

Video thumbnail: Collecting the Receipts2:42

Episode 3 · Tellagent

Collecting the Receipts

The daily Tellagent automations that gather the public records: a run end to end, records with timestamps, and failure alerts.

Video thumbnail: From Spec to Site Design2:13

Episode 4 · Chimp

From Spec to Site Design

Chimp writes the spec from the brand and the data model, then designs the site, including the citation component.

More episodes are on the way. Follow the playlist on YouTube to see each one as it lands.

What PaidFor.ai does

Follow the money. Check every receipt.

Politics runs on claims. PaidFor.ai runs on records. Look up any federal official and see who funded them, how they voted, and the public filing behind every number on the page.

Find your officials

Pick your state on the map or search by name to see the people who represent you.

See who paid them

Campaign money from the FEC’s public filings: totals, PACs and the organizations behind them.

Money beside the votes

Donations and voting records side by side, with the method published. Patterns, never accusations.

A receipt for every figure

Every number carries its source: the published records to download, or a link to the state’s own portal where a state holds them back.

Ask the sources

A sources chatbot answers questions from the records themselves, not from opinion.

Free to use

No paywall, no ads and no sponsored officials. A donate page, to help cover the servers and the public data, is opening soon.

See it live at paidfor.ai

How it was built

100% VeraGen, layer by layer.

Here is which VeraGen app built each part of PaidFor.ai, and the episode that shows it.

  1. Brand
    Brand Studio

    The logo, the palette and the dry, skeptical voice. A blue P, a red F and a purple lens.

    Watch episode 1 3:13
  2. Data
    Data Management

    The data model and the sources register (FEC, Congress.gov, Open States and more), the published method and the runbooks.

    Watch episode 2 3:45
  3. Automations
    Tellagent

    Daily jobs that collect officials, donors and votes from public records, with a timestamp on every record and an alert when a run fails.

    Watch episode 3 2:42
  4. Website
    Chimp

    The site spec, the design in the brand, the build story by story, and QA against every acceptance criterion before release.

    Watch episode 4 2:13
  5. Payments
    Mercato

    The donate page and its checkout, built and tested in Mercato. Real donations open soon.

    Episode coming

The results

Built in days, not months.

2 daysfrom the plan (Oct 28) to the launch of v1 (Oct 29, 2026)
5 appsBrand Studio, Data Management, Tellagent, Chimp and Mercato
Dailyscheduled collection from public records, with no one copying numbers by hand
Every figurecited: the site will not show a number without its source

More case studies

Built the same way.

All case studies

Build your company the way PaidFor.ai was built.

Start with every VeraGen app in one account, or have our team build it with you on VeraGen, the same way these were made.

Start with VeraGen Request a build