Platform status

Public beta

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A live look at every ALKARTIS intelligence app — what's shipped, what's in testing, and what we're building next.

ALKARTIS is in public beta: the apps marked live are usable today, but the platform is still evolving and you may hit rough edges. That's expected — and flagging them is the fastest way they get fixed.

Updated Oct 27, 2026, 7:12 PM

Live

2 apps
  • BlockWatcher

    Watch a Philadelphia address, block, ZIP code, or district for permits, violations, and what they actually mean.

    Live
    Operational
  • TaxAssessmentIQ

    Check whether appealing a Philadelphia property assessment is worth it, backed by real comparable sales — and generate ready-to-file appeal paperwork.

    Live
    Operational

Beta · In testing

9 apps
  • City Explorer

    Search any parcel, address, owner, or area and see everything the platform knows — assessment, ownership, permits, violations, sales, tax status, and neighborhood demographics — in one place.

    Thanks Nick!

    Beta · In testing
  • CompensationAtlas

    Follow a City employee's career over time — hires, promotions, transfers, and raises, read as a story.

    Beta · In testing
  • TitleClear

    You inherited a property. What the City's records say you owe, what you own, and whether the title is actually in your name.

    Beta · In testing
  • LandlordEye

    Evaluate rental properties, ownership patterns, licenses, violations, and operating risk.

    Beta · In testing
  • TaxSaleSignal

    Track the Philadelphia tax-distress funnel — delinquency to tax lien to sheriff's-sale exposure — for a property, an owner's whole portfolio, or a neighborhood.

    Beta · In testing
  • NeighborhoodShift

    Which way is this area turning over — and who does the change land on? What's happening to the buildings (vacancy, demolitions and dangerous structures against construction permits) read beside what's happening to the cost of staying (sale-price acceleration, redevelopment, credit), each against the citywide norm — with the price trend itself, what sold, and whether the move is backed by credit or cash.

    Beta · In testing
  • CivicBoard

    Run the civic association itself — the roster and dues, the meetings, and the zoning refusals coming before it — with a public notice board so a neighbour can find out in time.

    Beta · In testing
  • DistrictDesk

    The daily desk for a City Council district office: constituent property cases with their timeline and the City's record on each parcel, every zoning hearing in the district across all RCOs, and one-click summaries for ASAP.

    Beta · In testing
  • ContractorCheck

    Vet a Philadelphia contractor by their record — permit volume, licence currency, and violations and reinspections read against how much work they actually pull, in one reliability score.

    Beta · In testing

Temporarily unavailable

3 apps
  • CorpFinder

    Search a registered company and see who is named on its filing, which other companies share those people, and everywhere it appears across the platform — the LLC de-anonymization layer.

    Temporarily unavailable
  • BuildSignal

    Understand construction activity, development patterns, permit velocity, and neighborhood investment.

    Temporarily unavailable
  • Accessibility Monitor

    Continuous WCAG monitoring for the websites you're accountable for — what changed since yesterday, which template it landed on, and a dated record of when each issue was found and fixed.

    Temporarily unavailable

Coming soon

2 apps
  • ListingIQ

    Transform property and neighborhood data into understandable intelligence for buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals.

    Coming soon
  • ContractSignal

    Follow a City vendor over time — every contract, award, and payment, read as a story: who wins the work, who renews, and whose spend is climbing.

    Coming soon

Exploring the lab

Ideas we're researching and building toward, shown early with where each one stands. These are concepts — not commitments, timelines, or promises.

SafetySignal

In development

How safe is this block, really — and which way is it trending?

  • Gun-violence intensity from PPD shooting victims — fatal and nonfatal — measured against the citywide block average, not a scary raw count.
  • Whether shootings here fall indoors or on the street, and how fatal outcomes compare to the citywide rate.
  • Violent vs. property crime composition, with the direction of travel over the last 12 months.
  • A watch that stays quiet until safety meaningfully shifts.

StreetSafe

In development

Is this corner actually dangerous — and for whom?

  • Reported crashes near an intersection over five years, separated by who was hurt — drivers, pedestrians, cyclists.
  • Whether the street sits on the City's High Injury Network — the ~12% of streets carrying ~50% of traffic deaths.
  • The severity and conditions behind the count — dark, wet, unsignalized — not just a total.
  • A watch for a new serious-injury or fatal crash on a street you follow. (Crash timing is yearly by design.)

CleanScore

In the lab

Did this restaurant pass its last health inspection?

  • A plain pass/fail verdict with critical vs. non-critical violations — not a wall of codes.
  • This establishment's inspection history against nearby restaurants.
  • How a block or corridor compares on food safety overall.
  • A watch for a new inspection with critical violations at a place you follow.

InfluenceSignal

In the lab

Who funds the politicians deciding your neighborhood — and who wins the work?

  • A candidate's fundraising broken down by donor industry and geography, against peer candidates, from the City's campaign-finance filings.
  • In-district vs. out-of-district money at a glance, and how a committee's balance moves through a cycle.
  • Donor-to-vendor overlap — campaign giving read against ContractSignal's City vendors, which Philadelphia's own contribution-cap law makes legally meaningful. A donation near a contract is surfaced as a question with links to both source records, never an accusation.
  • The candidate registry (already ingested weekly as raw_candidate_campaigns) joined to filings through the designated-committee filer id.

VoteSignal

Planned

How did this ward actually vote, and how is its electorate changing?

  • Certified results by ward and ward-division, so a result is readable at the grain the City actually reports it.
  • Voter registration and turnout per division since 2015 — who is on the roll, and who showed up.
  • Electorate change over time against the ward/division boundaries, whose vintage travels with each row because divisions are periodically re-cut.
  • Deliberately no campaign money: who funds a candidate is InfluenceSignal's question, not this one's.

PermitPulse

In experimentation

Where the block is being rebuilt — before the scaffolding goes up.

  • New construction, alteration, and demolition permits on a block, read against its own 12-month baseline.
  • The mix behind the count — ground-up builds vs. renovations vs. teardowns — so a surge is legible, not just large.
  • Which contractors and owners are most active nearby, and how fast permits are actually being pulled.
  • A watch that fires when permit activity on a block you follow meaningfully accelerates.

EvictionWatch

In the lab

Is eviction pressure building on this block — before the displacement shows?

  • Landlord–tenant eviction filings near an address, measured against the block's own history and the citywide rate.
  • Repeat-filer landlords and the parcels driving most of the activity.
  • Filing pressure layered next to sale-price and permit trends — the early displacement tell.
  • A watch that stays quiet until filing activity on a block you follow shifts.

FedVendor

In the lab

Who wins federal work in Pennsylvania — and how much of it?

  • A recipient's federal contract awards over a rolling two-fiscal-year window — amount, awarding agency and sub-agency, and period of performance.
  • The same follow-the-vendor model as ContractSignal's City timelines, at federal scale, so a firm's public work reads as one picture.
  • Which agencies concentrate their spend on which recipients, and how award sizes compare across a sector.
  • Where a City vendor and a federal recipient are the same entity — the join ContractSignal alone can't make.

NonprofitAtlas

In the lab

Who are Pennsylvania's nonprofits, and what do they actually do?

  • The PA registry from the IRS Form 990 corpus — EIN, name, city, NTEE sector and 501(c) subsection.
  • Sector and geography breakdowns, so "how many arts nonprofits in this city" is answerable rather than anecdotal.
  • Per-filing financials and officer compensation as a follow-up enrichment against the same API.
  • The civic-organization side of an address: which nonprofits operate where, alongside the RCOs CivicBoard already knows.

LendingLens

In the lab

Who lends where in the Philadelphia metro — and who gets turned down?

  • HMDA mortgage activity by Census tract and year: loan counts and amounts, by action taken and loan purpose.
  • Origination and denial rates per tract, read against the metro, for market analysis and fair-lending review.
  • The tract-level detail underneath the area-level credit signal NeighborhoodShift already folds into displacement pressure.
  • Movement over time — where credit is opening up and where it is tightening.

CareSignal

In the lab

Which companies pay your doctor, and for what?

  • Industry payments and transfers of value to PA clinicians from CMS Open Payments — recipient, paying manufacturer, amount, nature of payment.
  • A practitioner's payment history by program year, and how it compares within their specialty.
  • The manufacturers concentrating spend in a specialty or a region.
  • A follow-the-money read on healthcare, the same shape as the campaign-finance and contracting work elsewhere on the platform.

LaborRisk

Planned

What does a workplace-safety record say about an employer?

  • OSHA inspection records for PA employers — establishment, site, industry (NAICS), inspection type and scope, open and close dates.
  • An employer's inspection history rolled up by name, and how it reads against others in the same industry.
  • The employer-accountability counterpart to ContractorCheck's permit-side record, for supply-chain and ESG review.
  • Needs a free DOL API key before the ingest can run at all — the one concept here whose data isn't yet flowing.

ServiceSignal

Planned

What is this block actually complaining about — and is the City fixing it?

  • 311 service requests near an address grouped by what they're about — trash, graffiti, abandoned autos, streetlights.
  • Open vs. closed rate and median time-to-close, so "did anything happen?" is answered.
  • This block's complaint mix and responsiveness against a neighborhood baseline.
  • A watch for a spike in a complaint type — or a backlog of unresolved requests — on a block you follow.

Bug reports & feature requests are open

We're in beta and actively testing — every app is a work in progress. If something looks wrong, breaks, or is missing something you need, tell us. Bug reports and feature requests are open, and we read all of them.

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