Research

Raw notes, market signals, and source material for each channel blueprint.

Your kid’s school might have straight A’s and a toxic neighborhood. We grade both.

Consumer-facing school environmental hazard accountability — an automated public-interest site that turns fragmented EPA, NCES, water-quality, and environmental justice data into per-school environmental risk report cards for parents, teachers, journalists, and local activists.

3.8 billion years of R&D. We report the knockoffs.

Consumer-facing biomimicry intelligence — an automated, opinionated site that tracks how engineers, architects, materials scientists, and product designers are copying nature’s best tricks, then turns that research into gorgeous, readable explainers normal people actually want to binge.

The sky keeps throwing matches. We count where they land.

Consumer-facing lightning intelligence — an automated, visual, opinionated site that turns satellite lightning detections, storm-event records, wildfire hotspots, and fatality data into county scorecards, seasonal risk maps, wildfire-ignition explainers, climate-shift analysis, and brutally useful articles for people who work, live, travel, or play under open sky.

The ocean gets a fever. We show you which reefs are burning.

Consumer-facing coral reef bleaching intelligence — an automated, visual, opinionated site that turns NOAA thermal-stress grids, reef habitat maps, species records, and restoration data into reef-by-reef health scorecards, bleaching-risk maps, recovery timelines, and weekly dispatches that tell normal humans what is happening underwater right now.

Your electricity bill is drinking the river. We show you how much comes back hot.

Consumer-facing power plant water-use and thermal-pollution intelligence — an automated, opinionated site that turns EIA plant operations data, cooling-system filings, EPA discharge violations, drought maps, and weather stress into plant-by-plant water scorecards, river-risk maps, utility report cards, and brutally clear weekly dispatches about which power plants are sucking down freshwater, which ones are heating local waterways, and where grid growth is colliding with water scarcity.

Your shopping cart has a trade policy problem. We put a dollar figure on it.

Consumer-facing tariff price intelligence — an automated, opinionated site that turns tariff schedules, executive orders, import data, and price indices into brutally clear product-category scorecards, “what just got more expensive” alerts, brand-adjacent buying guides, and weekly dispatches explaining how trade policy is hitting actual households, carts, and small businesses.

Your commute is balancing on a maintenance backlog. We name the bridges.

Consumer-facing U.S. bridge safety intelligence — an automated, opinionated site that turns FHWA bridge inspection data, historical condition trends, traffic counts, federal repair funding, and extreme-weather exposure into county-by-county bridge scorecards, commuter risk maps, repair-progress trackers, and weekly dispatches explaining which bridges are quietly aging into expensive trouble.

Your basement air has a body count. We map the risk, price the fix, and kill the shrug.

Consumer-facing residential radon intelligence — an automated, opinionated site that turns EPA radon zones, geology, housing-age data, smoking prevalence, and mitigation economics into county scorecards, buyer guides, negotiation playbooks, and brutally useful explainers about the invisible gas sitting under millions of homes.

Withdrawal Notice

What was dosed, what lingered, and who didn’t wait long enough.

Consumer-facing veterinary drug residue accountability — an automated, opinionated site that turns USDA residue-testing data, FDA tolerance tables, import enforcement records, and peer-reviewed toxicology into establishment report cards, compound explainers, meat-category scoreboards, and brutally clear weekly dispatches about the drugs that can remain in meat, poultry, and eggs after the industry says everything is under control.

If it fails inside the body, the paperwork should not be harder to read than the warning sign.

Consumer-facing medical device failure intelligence — an automated, opinionated site that turns the FDA’s MAUDE adverse-event database, recall notices, 510(k) clearances, safety communications, and peer-reviewed evidence into manufacturer report cards, implant/device risk rankings, recall-speed audits, and brutally clear explainers for patients, caregivers, journalists, and lawyers trying to understand which devices keep throwing errors inside real human bodies.