Methodology

LexDOGE is an open-source civic accountability platform for Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG). It ingests public records, runs statistical anomaly detection, and publishes human-reviewed findings. Every claim on this site links back to a primary source. Every AI-generated finding passes through a tiered review system before publication.

• AI analysis can produce errors. Hallucination is reduced by strict source-grounding, but all findings should be independently verified before being cited or republished.
• PDF parsing may miss or misinterpret data, especially from older scanned documents or non-standard tables.
• Anomaly flags are statistical observations, not allegations. A flag indicates an unusual pattern, not wrongdoing.
• Data availability depends on what LFUCG, KPPA, EMMA, and the Open Data Portal publish. Some information may be delayed, incomplete, or redacted.
• Confidence scores are model self-reports, calibrated against hand-labeled samples. They are heuristics, not guarantees.

Pages and panels marked awaiting ingestion are wired to the production API but the agent system has not yet populated the knowledge base. The ingestion pipeline requires an OPENAI_API_KEY (used for embeddings) and an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (used for the agents above). Until those are configured and the first full ingest completes, fallback values shown on the site are taken directly from the underlying public source documents and labeled as such.