About NationGraph Compass

We're building the AI layer for the public sector.

22 million Americans work in government. Their jobs matter. Their time shouldn't disappear into paperwork. NationGraph Compass is the AI workflow layer built to take the document burden off the people who serve the public — so they can get back to the work that changes lives.

5M+
Government employee profilesIndexed from public records across every level of U.S. government
229M+
Purchase ordersThe largest public database of government spend, updated continuously
90,000
Agencies indexedEvery U.S. city, county, school district, and state agency in our network
Why we built this

Government has shrunk. The paperwork hasn't.

Staff levels in local government have declined for 15 years. The FOIA requests, grant cycles, procurement bids, compliance reports, and council packets haven't — they've grown. The same clerk who used to share the load with three colleagues now does it alone.

The answer can't be "hire more people." Budgets won't allow it. The answer has to be smarter tools — purpose-built for government work, not adapted from consumer software. Compass is that answer.

We spent years building the index: 5M+ government employee profiles, 229M+ purchase orders, and the full public record archive across 90,000 agencies. Compass sits on top of it — AI agents that understand the language, law, and context of government work.

What we're building toward

An AI assistant for every person in public service.

Today, Compass handles the research your staff currently does by calling neighboring agencies: rate comparisons, vendor benchmarks, ordinance references, compensation surveys, and grant applications. Every one of those tasks is currently manual, repetitive, and high-stakes.

But the same index that powers those agents can power hundreds more — every government job that shouldn't require a person to spend hours in a PDF.

Our goal is to become the AI workflow layer every government employee relies on — not a chatbot, not a dashboard, but a capable colleague that handles the document burden so human judgment gets applied where it belongs.

How we operate

Principles we don't negotiate on.

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Your data is never trained on.

Every document you work with in Compass is processed to complete your task and nothing else. We never use agency records, correspondence, or outputs to train any AI model — ours or anyone else's. This is a contractual commitment, not a setting you have to find.

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Public records only.

NationGraph operates exclusively on data that government agencies have already published. We don't scrape non-public systems, purchase data from data brokers, or access records outside the public domain. Everything in our index was already public — we just made it usable.

Our founders

Built by people who've worked at the data layer before.

NationGraph was founded by people who spent careers turning vast, messy datasets into high-stakes decisions — and saw the same opportunity in government data.

Kimia Hamidi and Eden Ding, NationGraph co-founders
Kimia Hamidi
CEO & Co-Founder

Previously founded Buyer, an AI-powered procurement intelligence company acquired by Ramp in 2021. Built the data systems that let procurement teams see exactly what they were buying and why — the same insight gap that exists in every government purchasing office in America.

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Eden Ding
CTO & Co-Founder

Previously at Citadel and Google. Built data infrastructure and machine learning systems processing billions of records for high-stakes, time-sensitive decisions. Brought that same engineering rigor to the problem of making government's public record archive actually queryable.

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Backed by
Perplexity Fund Menlo Ventures Reach Capital XYZ
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Meet the NationGraph team.

What we believe

The convictions behind every decision we make.

01
Every public servant deserves a capable assistant.

Not a dashboard. Not a chatbot. A system that handles the document work so human judgment gets applied where it actually belongs.

02
The data has always existed. We made it usable.

Every purchase order, FOIA response, and grant award was already public. It was just scattered across 90,000 agency websites in formats no one could query.

03
No resident should wait longer because staff shrank.

Staffing in local government has declined for 15 years. AI can absorb the document work — not replace the humans, but free them to do work that requires judgment.

04
Government-grade from day one. Not retrofitted later.

Consumer AI tools were built for the public internet. Compass was built for government from the start — the architecture, the security, the compliance posture.

05
The county clerk deserves what the big city can afford.

A well-resourced city can afford analysts and outside counsel. A rural county clerk's office cannot. We exist to close that gap — not to serve only the agencies that already have enough.

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Drafts, you decide. Always.

AI should augment judgment, not replace it. Nothing is filed, sent, or submitted without explicit human approval. That's not a feature — it's the architecture.

Careers

Join us. The work is real and it matters.

We're a small team building infrastructure that will touch every corner of U.S. government. If you want to work on hard data problems with real-world impact, we want to hear from you.

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