Public report cards, evidence attached

Every official gets
a grade. Every grade
gets a source.

GradeWatch turns tracked promises, votes, and actions into a literal A-through-F report card for elected officials, agencies, and institutions — updated over time, and cited down to the public record behind every point.

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Every grade point links to a cited public record or filing.

How it works

From public record to report card in three steps.

Nothing about a GradeWatch score is a black box — every step traces back to something you can look up yourself.

01

Track promises, votes, and actions

Campaign pledges, roll-call votes, budget actions, and public statements are logged as they happen, sourced from official records, filings, and transcripts.

02

Weight it and score it

Each tracked item is weighted by scope and impact, then rolled up into category sub-scores and a single letter grade — the same rubric applied consistently across every subject.

03

Publish the report card, citations included

The grade goes live as a public page with every sub-score linked to its source — plus the trend line showing how the grade has moved from term to term.

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The same rubric, applied to anyone with public power.

GradeWatch grades people, agencies, and institutions the same way — consistently, and with the same citation standard.

Mayor Mayor T. Owusu
A-

Delivered 11 of 13 first-term infrastructure pledges on the published timeline, per capital projects office quarterly reports.

Up from B last term
City agency Dept. of Housing Services
D+

Missed its own permit-review turnaround target in 9 of the last 12 months, per the agency's self-published performance dashboard.

Down from C- last cycle
School board Riverbend School Board
B

Held 100% of legally required open meetings with published minutes, but split 3-2 on budget transparency requests twice this year.

Steady since last term
Trust & methodology

Graded like a transcript, not a hot take.

A grade is only as good as what backs it up. GradeWatch is built so anyone can check our work.

A published, consistent rubric

Every subject in the same category — mayors, city agencies, school boards — is scored against the same weighted rubric, published in full, so grades can be compared fairly across terms and across people.

Every grade point cites a public source

Roll-call votes, campaign filings, budget documents, meeting minutes, agency reports — each sub-score links directly to the record it came from, part of the same ProofCore evidence infrastructure behind our sibling products.

A real correction & appeal process

Any official, agency, or reader can flag a disputed grade point. Corrections are reviewed against the cited source and the rubric, and the report card shows a visible correction history — grades are never quietly edited.

Who it's for

Built for anyone who has to make a judgment call on power.

A report card should be legible in the fifteen seconds before you decide something — a vote, a story, a campaign.

Voters

Check an incumbent's grade and trend before an election, without digging through years of council minutes yourself.

Local journalists

Start a story with a sourced grade and its underlying citations already assembled, instead of building the record from scratch on deadline.

Civic watchdog groups

Track a whole slate of officials or an entire agency's grade trend over time, and cite GradeWatch's underlying sources in your own reporting.

Early access

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