Public records are, in theory, free. Any research or analytics team can go download them. In practice, "free" hides the real cost: weeks of scraping, cleaning, deduplicating, and reconciling identifiers before anyone answers a single question. ALKARTIS is the intelligence layer that removes that cost — a public-records data provider that hands your team connected, sourced, analysis-ready data instead of a pile of CSVs.
Most teams that work with public records don't struggle to find the data. Cities publish payroll, assessments, permits, violations, and licensing. The struggle is that each dataset lives in its own silo, with its own schema, its own update cadence, and its own way of naming the same person, property, or company. A single owner might appear as three different LLCs. A property carries one identifier in the assessment file and another in the permit system. Pulling a coherent picture across all of it is a data-engineering project, not a query.
ALKARTIS exists to do that connecting work once, well, and continuously — so your analysts spend their time on analysis instead of plumbing. We call the result Information Intelligence: the path from raw data to information to intelligence to decisions. You plug in at the intelligence end.
Raw public data answers "what does this file contain?" Connected intelligence answers "what is actually going on here?" — and shows its work.
Rather than isolated exports, you get a connected corpus of Philadelphia public records with the hard parts already handled:
The teams that get the most from ALKARTIS share a common trait: they need to be right, and they need to prove it. That includes newsroom data desks building sourced investigations, research and policy shops studying housing and labor patterns, and diligence and analytics teams that need a defensible read on a market or a counterparty. In each case the win is the same — start from a trustworthy, connected foundation instead of rebuilding one from scratch every project.
Public data isn't static. New pay periods post, assessments get revised, permits open and close, licenses lapse and renew. A CSV you pulled last quarter is already drifting out of date, and keeping it current is its own recurring chore. ALKARTIS maintains the connected corpus over time, so your team works against data that keeps pace with the record rather than a snapshot that quietly goes stale. The same normalization and entity resolution that ran on the historical baseline runs on every update, so the shape of the data your queries depend on stays stable as it grows.
Plenty of data vendors will sell you a score. Fewer will show you how the score was built. ALKARTIS is deliberately the opposite kind of provider: because every figure traces to a public source, your team can audit it, cite it, and defend it. That matters most exactly when the stakes are highest — a published story, a filed appeal, an investment memo, a policy recommendation. Intelligence you can't explain isn't intelligence you can act on.
For teams that want programmatic access, API access to the ALKARTIS Intelligence Engine is part of the Enterprise tier. There's no self-serve API signup — instead we scope the datasets, refresh cadence, and delivery format around your workflow and provision access for your team. And if you have proprietary or uncovered data of your own, we can often connect it as a custom engagement. The fastest way to find out what fits is to talk to us.
ALKARTIS is live in Philadelphia today. As new cities come online, they join the same engine — so an integration you build now grows with our coverage rather than being rebuilt for each new market.
Raw open data comes as disconnected files — one export for payroll, another for assessments, another for permits, each with its own identifiers and quirks. ALKARTIS does the connecting: entities are resolved across datasets, records are cleaned and normalized, and every figure keeps a link back to its source record. Your team starts from connected, analysis-ready intelligence instead of spending weeks reconciling CSVs.
Yes — API access is part of the ALKARTIS Enterprise tier, not a self-serve signup. We scope the datasets, refresh cadence, and delivery format with you, then provision access for your team. Talk to our team to discuss what your workflow needs.
ALKARTIS is live in Philadelphia today, with the full connected set of public records — payroll since 2016, OPA assessments, L&I permits and valuations, code violations, rental licensing, eviction filings, and 311. We are expanding city by city, and new cities join the same engine as they come online.
Yes. Explainability is the point. Every figure ALKARTIS surfaces traces back to a checkable public record, so research, journalism, and diligence work can stand behind it. We do not blend in proprietary black-box scores that you cannot verify.
Often, yes — as a custom engagement. If you have proprietary datasets or public records outside our current coverage, we can scope connecting them to the engine case by case. See our Bring Your Own Data page for how that works.
Tell us what you're trying to answer and which datasets you need. We'll scope connected, sourced access to the Intelligence Engine around your team's workflow.