Technology
NewsOnScale Staff
October 3, 2026
Every county, city, and local government in the United States manages public money. Most of them make it nearly impossible for residents to understand how that money is actually being spent.
CountyPurse.com is designed to change that.
Built by JJ Johnson, founder of AMILLI AI, Corp., CountyPurse is a government financial intelligence platform that makes local budget data, spending records, vendor contracts, and financial decisions accessible without requiring a public records request, a finance degree, or a team of analysts to interpret the numbers.
What it does for governments
Local officials can use CountyPurse to track spending against budgets in real time rather than waiting for quarterly or annual reports. Procurement teams can see vendor and contract history in one place, making conflicts of interest easier to spot. Grant funds received from federal and state sources can be tracked from receipt through expenditure, simplifying compliance reporting. Outstanding bonds, pension obligations, and other liabilities can be surfaced clearly for both officials and the public.
What it does for residents
Constituents can look up spending in their area without filing public records requests, reducing administrative burden on government staff while giving citizens genuine visibility into how their tax dollars are being used. Comparing a county's spending patterns against similar counties helps residents and journalists ask better questions at budget hearings.
The broader problem it solves
Most local government financial data already exists somewhere — in spreadsheets, accounting software, and databases managed by finance departments. The problem is access. Data that technically exists but requires specialized knowledge or formal requests to obtain is, practically speaking, not public.
CountyPurse makes that data genuinely accessible.
CountyPurse.com is live now.
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