WhatA structured, searchable database that ingests messy government DOJ/court records and makes them queryable with analytics, comparisons, and visualizations.
SignalGovernment records like pardons, clemency grants, and sentencing data are technically public but practically inaccessible — buried in PDFs, inconsistent formats, and non-searchable DOJ pages, forcing journalists and researchers to manually dig through them.
Why NowHeightened public scrutiny of presidential pardons across multiple administrations, combined with cheap LLM-powered data extraction from unstructured government documents, makes it feasible to build comprehensive legal record databases at low cost.
MarketJournalists, legal researchers, policy organizations, and civic tech orgs; adjacent to the $15B+ legal data market dominated by LexisNexis and Westlaw, but focused on the underserved government-records-transparency niche.
MoatAccumulating cleaned, structured datasets from messy government sources creates a data asset that's painful to replicate — the scraping, normalization, and cross-referencing work compounds over time.
Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US PardonsView discussion ↗ · 452 pts · April 11, 2026
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