The announcement drops, your editor wants something beyond the wire by 2, and the press release is three names and three titles. forcemap is being built to run them down for you: current employers, money, prior roles, and where the interests pile up. Every claim carries a source link and a confidence tier, so when the desk asks how you know, you point at the document.
Free for working journalists & academic researchers during beta. If we can't cite it, we don't show it.
Illustrative dossier, drawn from public reporting.
The story is in who got the seat, and right now you assemble it by hand: one bio, one filing, one disclosure at a time, while every other outlet runs the same three names and titles.
"Warsh's AI task force members all appear to believe AI will be a transformative technology… all have recently spoken or written in sharply positive terms about the effects of AI on the economy."That pattern took a reporter hours of cross-referencing. forcemap shows it the day the roster drops.
forcemap is built to read the news and the government's own datasets every day, then connect bodies, people, employers, interests, and outputs into one graph.
The plan: a daily Google News scrape and government feeds (GSA FACA, the Federal Register) to surface newly formed task forces within a day of announcement.
Each member is resolved to their employer, prior government roles, and financial ties, drawn from news, FEC filings, and lobbying / OGE disclosures.
When several members share a backer or sector, forcemap flags it, so the influence-capture story is surfaced instead of buried.
Each body is linked to what it produces (reports, proposed rules, and bills) so intent can be tied to outcome over time.
Bodies ↔ people ↔ employers ↔ interests ↔ outputs, resolved across name variants. Not a headline feed you still have to cross-reference.
Every person→interest and person→financial edge carries a source URL and a tier: confirmed, reported, or inferred. Unsourced claims are never shown.
Rosters change and mandates drift. forcemap snapshots each body over time so you can see who was added, who left, and what shifted.
Federal advisory committees, ad-hoc panels, and corporate boards alike: any body whose decisions plausibly reach more than 1,000 people.
forcemap is built for reporters who stake their credibility on every line. Each claim about a real, named person is graded by where it came from:
Turn a body's announcement into a sourced story in minutes, not days.
Tie advisory-body composition to the rules and market-moving outcomes ahead.
Monitor the panels shaping your industry and who just got a seat at them.
Study revolving-door influence with a historical, citable graph.
A daily scrape of Google News plus public government datasets: GSA FACA, the Federal Register, Congress.gov, FEC, and lobbying/OGE disclosures. Nothing behind a paywall or a login.
Every edge carries a source and a confidence tier, and unsourced claims never render. Financial claims lean on authoritative datasets; news-only claims are marked "reported."
Any task force, advisory committee, commission, or corporate decision group whose decisions plausibly affect more than 1,000 people, government or Fortune 500.
Free for working journalists and academic researchers during beta. Paid tiers for policy-intelligence and government-affairs teams at launch.
forcemap is in build now. Tell us what you're tracking, a body, an agency, a beat. We'll reach out as we open the beta.