Cities publish an enormous amount of information — but it's scattered across departments, buried in PDFs, and published without the context needed to make sense of it. Finding one real answer often means opening ten systems and reconciling records that don't agree. The data was never the hard part. Understanding it was.
Nobody wants ten million rows. They want to know if a raise is unusual, an assessment is overvalued, or a department is growing faster than the rest of the city.
Payroll, assessments, and permits aren't separate stories — they're related signals. Alkartis links them so a change in one shows up everywhere it matters.
Every number traces back to its public source. No black boxes, no unexplained scores — just data made legible.
Philadelphia's public payroll, made explorable. Every city employee's title, department, and salary, tracked quarter by quarter back to 2016 — full career trajectories, department rollups, and who got the biggest raises this quarter.
View all applications →Philadelphia property tax assessments, decoded. Pulls live OPA data, flags likely over-assessments, and generates a BRT-ready appeal packet.
Data informs. Context explains. Intelligence empowers.
Data alone isn't intelligence. Neither is a chart. Neither is AI. Information has to be connected before it becomes useful — that's the whole philosophy behind everything we build.
Read our philosophy →One engine. Every application reads from it.
"The world doesn't have a data problem. It has an understanding problem."Read the full story →
Years inside one of the largest municipal governments in the country revealed the real barrier: not missing data, but information scattered across systems with no context to make sense of it. Alkartis exists to close that gap.
In time, people won't say "I used a data tool."
They'll say "I asked Alkartis."