Agent-native tools over public US federal records.
Every citature answer ships with the receipt behind it — citations to the exact upstream government source, retrieval timestamps, coverage caveats, and match provenance on every cross-source join. Nothing is asserted without a locator you can re-fetch yourself.
Primary sources only. Public-domain US federal records, ingested nightly from the source of record — never an aggregator. What each nightly run finds depends on the upstream's own cadence, so coverage is stated per source rather than as one number:
- FEC — campaign finance: 217M+ itemized contribution records across the 2020–2026 cycles, plus committees and candidates. FEC publishes bulk files on the two-year election cycle, so the ingest advances when new files land rather than daily.
- USASpending — federal awards and contracts, keyed on recipient UEI. New records land daily.
- SAM.gov — contract opportunities and solicitations. New records land daily.
- Grants.gov — grant opportunities. Advances when the upstream publishes.
No date is printed here on purpose. Every answer carries its own retrieved_at
(when citature fetched the record) alongside the source's own as_of date, which
is a separate field — a receipt on the answer beats an as-of line on a page that
nobody regenerates.
Fourteen tools in two families, all live. Each is callable from the MCP server or
as a standalone Apify actor. The mapping is not
one-to-one — several tools share an actor, and opportunity_search spans both
SAM.gov and Grants.gov.
Descriptions below are the tool descriptions as registered, so an agent reading this page and an agent reading the server see the same contract.
| Tool | Contract |
|---|---|
contributions_by_state |
Individual FEC contribution dollars for an election cycle, totaled by the contributor's state of origin, largest first. |
contributions_by_committee_type |
Individual FEC contribution dollars for an election cycle, totaled by the recipient committee's type, largest first. |
awards_by_agency |
Federal contract-award dollars for a fiscal year, ranked by the awarding agency. Declares the exact agency crosswalk in the receipt. |
awards_by_state |
Federal contract-award dollars for a fiscal year, ranked by place-of-performance state (a native award field, no join). |
awards_by_recipient |
Federal contract-award dollars for a fiscal year, ranked by recipient keyed on the universal federal awardee UEI. Declares the UEI crosswalk. |
follow_the_money |
Itemized contribution dollars flowing into an FEC committee, aggregated by the contributor's state of origin. Entity-level only; declares the committee-id crosswalk. |
committee_lookup |
Look up one FEC committee by its committee id. Returns the committee or a null answer with a citation when none is found. |
candidate_lookup |
Look up one FEC candidate by its candidate id. Returns the candidate or a null answer with a citation when none is found. |
committee_search |
Prefix-search FEC committees by name (case-insensitive, bounded). Each result carries the citature entity id next to the FEC id. |
candidate_search |
Prefix-search FEC candidates by name (case-insensitive, bounded). Each result carries the citature entity id next to the FEC id. |
| Tool | Contract |
|---|---|
recompetes_expiring |
Federal contracts whose period of performance ends within a YYYY-MM month window, soonest first, each with the incumbent (by UEI) and its obligation. Optional NAICS (prefix) and awarding-agency (name) filters. Declares the exact UEI and agency-code crosswalks. |
incumbent_history |
A federal contractor's contract lineage per agency and NAICS, by exact UEI or recipient-name prefix (at least one required): contract count, total obligated, fiscal-year span, latest period-of-performance end. Declares the exact UEI and agency-code crosswalks. |
agency_buying |
Federal contract obligations, contract counts, and distinct-contractor counts by awarding agency, NAICS, and fiscal year. All filters optional. Declares the exact agency-code crosswalk and the UEI behind the distinct-contractor count. |
opportunity_search |
Open and forecasted procurement opportunities across SAM.gov and Grants.gov, newest first, filterable by NAICS, agency, posted-date window, and active state. Single-source native records, so no cross-source join; cites each contributing source. |
| Actor | Family |
|---|---|
funding-entity-lookup |
money |
fec-contributions |
money |
federal-awards |
money |
follow-the-money |
money |
govcon-recompetes |
govcon |
incumbent-history |
govcon |
agency-buying-patterns |
govcon |
citature-mcp |
mcp |
Every tool above is delivered as agent-native calls from one MCP server,
published as the citature-mcp actor
and served over Streamable HTTP on the /mcp path.
The connection host is assigned by the Apify platform when the actor starts in Standby mode, so it is not a fixed address this page can quote — take it from the actor's listing. Nothing here states an endpoint it cannot cite.
The standing caveats, quoted from the literals every receipt and every tool description ships:
- Research over public-domain federal records — not legal, financial, or eligibility advice.
- citature reports what the record says. It never renders a compliance verdict, a screening pass/fail, or a recommendation.
- Entity-level records only (committees, candidates, recipients, agencies, contracts). No individual-person data.
Money is integer cents.
