Open The Books Software
Company Name: American Transparency
About: Open Book Ben is an alternative to a traditional business credit bureau.
Headquarters: Golden, Colorado, United States.
Open The Books Overview
What is Open The Books? The app allows users to search the United States Government checkbook since the year 2000 for contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, and farm subsidies. It also provides seven-year salary histories and bonuses for 2.2 million disclosed federal employees, state checkbooks in at least 16 states, and public salaries from 36,000 local units of government across America. Users can hyper-localize all federal spending by using their current GPS location, setting a custom location by zip code, or searching by a vendor name or employee's last name.
Features
- Search the United States Government checkbook since the year 2000 for contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, and farm subsidies.
- Access seven-year salary histories and bonuses for 2.2 million disclosed federal employees.
- View state checkbook spending by choosing a target state on the ‘state checkbook flywheel’ of the app or changing your location by keying any ZIP code within the target state.
- See public salaries from 36,000 local units of government across America by your current location (as determined by GPS) or keying in a ZIP code.
- Hyper-localize all federal spending by using your current GPS location, setting a custom location by zip code, or searching by a vendor name or employee's last name.
- American Transparency is a 501(c)3 non-partisan, non-profit organization. Visit their website at www.openthebooks.com.
Official Screenshots
Product Details and Description of
Search the United States Government checkbook since the year 2000: contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, and farm subsidies. The app also contains seven year salary histories and bonuses for 2.2 million disclosed federal employees, state checkbooks in at least 16 states, and public salaries from 36,000 local units of government across America. Hyper-localize all federal spending by using your current GPS location, setting a custom location by zip code, or search by a vendor name or employee's last name. See state checkbook spending: 1. choose a target state on the ‘state checkbook fly wheel’ of the app; 2. if you live ‘out-of-state,’ then change your location by keying any ZIP code within the target state. See salaries from 36,000 units of local government across America by your current location (as determined by GPS) or keying in a ZIP code. American Transparency is a 501(c)3 non-partisan, non-profit organization. Visit our website at www.this app.com. The need for transparency has never been greater. Americans have never been more willing. Now is the time to stand up and be heroes.
Top Reviews
By Itsndahole
Awesome
For years, government and teacher salaries have been kept secret from the ones who pay them. And both have proven that increased salaries to do mean better results. In fact, just the opposite. With this app, I can show my liberal friends that pouring more money down a sink hole is not the answer and the fair market value of their pay is highly inflated. I sent this app to dozens of people to get the message out about the waste of our taxes.
By AnnieBZen
I Love this App
I am so happy that I can now identify the reason we are having a fiscal problem in Illinois. I can't believe how much our teachers are getting. I wouldn't mind if our kids were learning at a higher level but just look at the statistics in Chicago. Thanks for enlightening us.
By Jeff_Elucidate
Awesome tool for gov transparency!
Go figure it takes a private enterprise to facilitate gov transparency. Nice job! If anyone cares about how your money is spent by identifying what who when. Only critique (which no way around) is timeliness. Data is prob limited to official reporting which is likely yr+ old.
