Personal project

Ground Truth

Environmental public-record reporting for a US address. Independent sources load in parallel; report values link to agency records and raw fields. Failed sources remain visible rather than blocking the whole report.

Ground Truth's green homepage with its environmental address search
Live homepage / Captured 21 Oct 2026

The problem

Environmental records sit across independent federal systems. Readers need to see which records support an address report and know when a source failed.

Implementation decisions

  • Query independent sources in parallel so one failure does not block the report.
  • Carry field-level provenance, retrieval URLs and response hashes alongside reported values.
  • Use source-backed templates and show source failures instead of inventing a combined home-safety score.

Evidence and limits

The public README and provenance kernel were reviewed on 21 October 2026; the live homepage was also captured. This does not verify every agency response or rerun the application's tests. The report is not a safety verdict, and no coverage or latency benchmark is claimed here.