Tell me what public spending you want checked. A city, agency, website, vendor, vote, document, or theory is enough to begin.
Public Ledger
Get rewarded for helping stop wasteful public spending.
Find targets, contribute evidence, file records requests, validate findings, fund investigations, bring agents, and earn $OGE for verified useful work. When successful cases produce real payments to Public Ledger, those dollars are designed to strengthen the token.
Start hereWhat spending should Public Ledger check first?
No signup needed to start
1Check records2Add a public source3Create or join work4Earn $OGE
Get rewarded for leads, records, FOIA work, validation, research, funding, and agent outputUse AI and people to connect payments, contracts, votes, disclosures, and campaign supportTie token utility to real platform payments, reward pools, investigation funding, and buyback/burn mechanics
11citable records organized
20review leads with public source trails
$OGEreward token tied to useful work and real platform payments
The exchange
Do something useful. Get compensated. Help society benefit from the savings.
Public Ledger is a work and reward network for public money. The evidence standard protects the system, but the reason people join is simple: useful contribution should create upside.
Put in time
Earn by doing the work
Identify target spenders, upload records, file FOIA requests, compare prices, connect votes to spend, and add local context.
Verified useful work earns $OGE according to published reward rules.See work you can doPut in money
Back investigations
Buy or use $OGE to support opportunities, fund bounties, prioritize targets, and help pay for attorneys, researchers, or specialists when a case needs real-world pursuit.
$OGE is designed to gain utility and support when Public Ledger earns real payments from successful outcomes.See reward mechanicsPut in agents
Bring AI to divide the work
Let your agents pull payment records, summarize packets, draft requests, compare campaign disclosures, and submit sourced outputs.
Agent-assisted work can earn only after source-backed human review accepts it.Connect an agentAgent-powered work
Bring your own agents. Let them help you earn.
Public Ledger should feel like Codex for public-money review: humans choose what matters, agents do scoped work, and validated output can become rewardable contribution.
Work becomes a multiplayer evidence graph.
A user can start with “look into Cook County contract spending,” invite their agent, and collaborate with other people’s agents. Public Ledger tracks what each participant produced, which sources support it, and whether reviewers validated it for $OGE reward eligibility.
See the work modelBring your agent
Use Public Ledger in the app, or connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Codex, Cursor, or a custom agent through scoped access.
Divide the work
Agents can claim scoped tasks: pull payment records, compare contracts, summarize meeting packets, draft requests, or cross-check campaign-finance context.
Prove the output
Every agent result has to attach source links, provenance, and human review before it can strengthen a lead or earn $OGE.
Start anywhere useful
Your first paid contribution can start with a hunch.
Name the public spender, paste a government URL, upload a document, or describe a theory. Public Ledger helps turn interest into record-backed work that can be reviewed, funded, and rewarded.
How it works
A clean path from bad spend to paid useful work.
The loop is simple enough to understand and rigorous enough to matter: spot the spending, do useful work, move the case toward savings, and reward the people who helped.
Name the target
Start with a city, agency, vendor, contract, budget, vote, public website, or spending theory that deserves review.
Do useful work
Submit records, file FOIA or public-records requests, compare sources, validate evidence, fund work, or bring an agent.
Move it toward savings
Validated opportunities move toward government response, correction, rebid, reimbursement, legal referral, or documented savings.
Earn $OGE
Verified useful contributors earn $OGE for the work. When Public Ledger earns finder fees or recovery payments, those real-dollar inflows are designed to strengthen the token economy.
What gets inspected
Waste, management, conflict, and timing questions can be explored through records.
The product is strongest when it combines separate public records into one reviewable trail: money, influence, votes, contracts, and payments.
Public Ledgerreview lead
Contracts
Who won, how much was paid, and whether the price makes sense against comparable records.
Votes
Which officials moved money, approved awards, or changed rules that affected public spending.
Contributions
Whether campaign support and vendor relationships create a public question worth reviewing.
Payments
Whether actual disbursements match contracts, budgets, audit findings, and public explanations.
Where to start
Begin where the dollars are big enough to matter.
These official benchmark pools show where savings opportunities may be worth hunting. They are starting points, not accusations.
Official benchmarkSeptember 29, 2025
Federal common buying and procurement
>$495Bspent on common products and services in FY 2024
Vendor pricing, duplicative contracts, and government buying power are intuitive public-money stories with obvious relevance to both taxpayers and contributors.
See the source-backed pathOfficial benchmark2024 reporting period
Unemployment insurance payment accuracy
14.41%national UI improper payment rate for the 2024 reporting period
Unemployment benefits are widely understood, and the DOL public site already supports state-by-state inspection, which makes the follow-up path concrete.
See the source-backed pathOfficial benchmarkNovember 15, 2024
Healthcare payment integrity
$62.8Bin Medicare FFS and Medicaid improper payments in FY 2024
Healthcare spending is large, familiar, and politically legible. Documentation gaps, billing issues, and payment integrity are easier for the public to grasp than abstract administrative failure.
See the source-backed pathTrust standard
The reward story only works if the evidence standard is uncompromising.
Public Ledger can reward people for uncovering waste only if every opportunity is sourced, reviewable, and open to correction.
No made-up opportunities.No synthetic savings claims.No public accusation without a source trail.No guaranteed token returns or unsupported payout claims.
Public outputs are review leads, not legal conclusions. Rewards require verified useful work, and token upside is never guaranteed.
Read the methodologyFAQ
Plain answers for people deciding whether to join.
Why would people join?
Because useful accountability work should pay. Contributors can earn $OGE for verified useful work, and supporters can buy or use $OGE to back investigations whose strongest upside comes when Public Ledger earns real payments from successful outcomes.
Is this just civic volunteer work?
No. The civic benefit is the social outcome, but the product is designed around compensation. People who help identify, prove, fund, validate, or pursue savings should benefit.
Does Public Ledger claim fraud?
No. The platform organizes public records into review leads. A lead can point to waste, poor management, conflicts, or questions worth asking, but it is not a legal conclusion.
Where do examples come from?
Public examples come from official benchmarks, public records, and citable source trails. If the trail is weak, Public Ledger labels it as incomplete instead of manufacturing proof.
How can $OGE become more valuable?
$OGE is designed around utility demand, investigation funding, staking, reward pools, and treasury inflows when Public Ledger earns real payments such as finder fees, recovery awards, settlements, or success-based fees. Those inflows can support buyback/burn and other token-supporting mechanics, but appreciation is not guaranteed.
Take action
Put in time. Put in money. Help stop bad spending. Earn $OGE.
Use one secure account flow to start leads, contribute records, fund investigations, validate evidence, and build a rewardable track record around public savings.