Transparent Records, Audit & Investigation Ledger
Follow the money.
In public.
TRAIL is an open, citizen-built ledger that gives analysts, journalists, and auditors a head start on Canadian public spending. Federal grants, public contracts, charity filings: every record cross-referenced, every recipient examined, every change tracked.
Records indexed
1,489,886
Federal + provincial grants
Total disbursed
$934.45B
Original grant value
Last scan
Pending
Daily delta runs soon
Method
Triage, not verdicts.
1. Scan
Daily delta scans of federal and provincial open data. New recipients, contract amendments, dissolved entities — all captured the moment they appear in the public record.
2. Cross-reference
Agentic deep research links each entity to news coverage, regulatory filings, and corporate registries. Connections that would take an analyst weeks to surface appear in seconds.
3. Surface
Findings are published with their underlying evidence. Each result is a signal for journalists, auditors, and investigators to take further.
The AI is not an auditor. It is a triage system. It works through data at machine speed, surfaces what warrants attention, and puts trained judgment back in the hands of the people who can act on it.
Ask the ledger
Open-ended questions.
The agent searches the database, reviews findings across multiple entities, and synthesises what's on file.
Reads from TRAIL's scanned findings only. Not an auditor — treat responses as triage signals for human review.
Overview
By the numbers.
Total Disbursed
$934.45B
Records Indexed
1,489,886
Recipients Tracked
500
Flagged Today
2
Provincial Footprint
Grade Distribution
Adverse Findings
Critical
SDTC
$76M conflict-of-interest breach. $59M awarded to ineligible projects.
$1.6B total received
Moderate
Ontario Min. Health
Repeated regulatory deductions for non-compliant patient charges over 3 years.
$8.2B total received
Watch
ACOA
Unusual concentration: 91% of funding from a single department.
$1.1B total received
The Ledger
Top 500 recipients.
Federal grants & contributions, 2006–2025. Originals only — amendments excluded.
Sources: open.canada.ca (federal grants 2006–2025) · CRA T3010 charity filings · Alberta grants, contracts & sole-source (open.alberta.ca) · BC Community Gaming Grants · Ontario Trillium Foundation · ON Seniors Community Grants · ON Enabling Change · ON Community Infrastructure Fund · ON Jobs & Prosperity Fund · FRQ – Santé · FRQ – Société et Culture · Canada Council for the Arts (2017–2025). Cached hourly. The AI is not an auditor.
About
Built in public.
Alberta's Ministry of Technology and Innovation built TRACE: an internal AI system for reviewing provincial contracts and expenditures. They proved the methodology works.
TRAIL extends that work into the open. Same approach, federal scope, public-facing, and free for anyone to inspect, fork, or replicate.
The data is already public. The tools are now public too.