Transparency
A note about AI and this project.
This project was built by one person, with substantial assistance from artificial intelligence.
AI has helped me search, organize, compare, cross-reference, summarize, and make sense of a volume of public information that would have been extremely difficult for one person to examine alone. It has helped trace connections across decades, locate original documents, identify questions worth pursuing, organize competing claims, and turn a sprawling body of research into something people can actually explore.
That does not mean AI is treated as an authority.
Wherever possible, the underlying evidence comes from primary documents, court filings, government records, financial disclosures, organizational records, reputable journalism, archived materials, and other sources that readers can examine for themselves.
AI can make mistakes, misunderstand context, or draw connections that the evidence does not support. For that reason, important claims are checked against their sources, and the site distinguishes documented facts from inference, interpretation, and unanswered questions.
The conclusions and editorial decisions on this site are ultimately mine.
Why use it?
The tool is part of how one person can do this work.
There is understandable concern about artificial intelligence—who builds it, who controls it, how it is used, and what its growing power could mean for society. Those are questions worth asking.
But there is also something fitting about using the tools of the modern information age to understand the institutions, people, money, ideas, and systems that have helped shape that age.
Much of what is documented here was already public. The problem was that it was scattered across thousands of pages, organizations, court records, news stories, biographies, databases, and decades of history.
AI made it possible for one person to begin putting those pieces together.
In that sense, I believe its use here is not something to hide.
It is part of the story of how this project became possible.
AI is not a source
Claims should rest on the underlying records, reporting and documents—not on an AI answer.
Uncertainty stays visible
Inference, disputed claims and unresolved questions should remain labeled as such rather than being smoothed into certainty.
Readers can check the work
The purpose of citations and source links is to let readers inspect the evidence themselves and reach their own conclusions.
The research standard matters more than the tool.
Read how relationships are defined, how evidence is graded, and why gaps are allowed to remain open.