SOURCE / PORTALS
Lookup tools, search pages, and dashboards hold real government data, but only one query at a time. The engine works the form, captures what comes back, and turns it into records you can hold, compare, and trace.
Sources portals
What it is
A portal is a government database with a form bolted to the front. The data is public, but it only answers one lookup at a time, and it rarely lets you take the whole thing with you. What you can see, you usually cannot save, compare across records, or watch for change.
The challenge
Portals are built for a single person asking a single question. There is no file to download, no feed to subscribe to, and no record of what the answer was yesterday. The engine queries the portal the way a person would, captures each result as a dated record, and assembles the full picture the portal will not hand over.
In practice
A team needs every licensed facility in a state, but the portal returns one at a time. The engine works the lookup end to end, captures each record with the date it was read, and returns the full set, traceable to the portal it came from.
Every source runs the same five auditable stages, so what reaches you carries the record of where it came from and when it was checked.
Any government lookup tool, search page, or dashboard that holds public data but only answers one query at a time: provider and license lookups, award explorers, eligibility checkers, and the dashboards agencies publish instead of a download. If the data is public but trapped behind a form, the engine treats it as a portal source.
It works the form the way a person would, one query at a time, and captures each result as a structured, dated record. What the portal will only show one answer at a time, the engine assembles into the full picture, with each record pinned to the portal and the moment it was read.
Yes. Every captured result carries the portal it came from and the date it was read, so a figure that was true on a given day stays defensible even after the portal updates behind the form.
Portals feed navigators, dashboards, and datasets, anywhere a complete, current picture has to be reconstructed from a tool that was only ever built to answer one lookup at a time.
Tell us the source and the question. You get a working product, every fact pinned.