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Rigorous Financial Oversight & Analytics

RIGFOA builds AI-assisted governance tools for the officials who steward public money — fiscal risk monitoring, compliance checking, spending anomaly detection and multi-year budget analytics — and publishes the methodology behind all of it.

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Fiscal Risk MonitorIllustrative

Sample interface. Entity names and values are fictitious and shown to illustrate the display only.

The platform

Four tools, one governing idea

Every output resolves to the records that produced it. If a result cannot be traced to a transaction and a policy provision, it is not something a public official can act on.

Risk Monitoring

Continuous fiscal indicators — structural balance, liquidity, reserve adequacy and long-term obligations — computed from the entity's own ledger.

Explore Risk Monitoring

Compliance Dashboard

GASB and GAAP checks with a working paper trail. Lease and SBITA registers that stay current instead of being rebuilt each year.

Explore Compliance Dashboard

Fraud Detection

Transaction triage for post-payment review, pairing statistical ranking with the policy provision each flag implicates.

Explore Fraud Detection

Public Finance Analytics

Driver-based multi-year forecasting with published assumptions, three scenarios and a sensitivity table that shows what the answer depends on.

Explore Public Finance Analytics
Why we build this way

Most oversight failures are attention failures

A three-person finance department does not have a prediction problem. It has the same volume of documents it had twenty years ago plus a decade of new reporting obligations, and the same three people.

That reframing changes what a useful tool looks like. Software that produces an estimate replaces judgement a department already exercises reasonably well. Software that ranks nine thousand transactions so the forty worth reading appear first delivers judgement to where it is scarce. We build the second kind.

Read our methodology
  • Traceable by design. Every indicator, flag and forecast resolves to source records and, where applicable, to the policy provision it applies.
  • Advisory, not determinative. Our tools rank, register and check. A qualified official makes the decision and it is their reasoning that is recorded.
  • Published methodology. Indicator definitions, detection logic and model limitations are documented publicly, not held as proprietary advantage.
  • Your data stays yours. Entity data is not used to train models, is exportable at any time, and is deleted on request.
  • Override logging as a first-class feature. If reviewers reverse a recommendation four times out of five, we want that on the record — it is how a tool gets fixed or retired.
Built for

Public entities of every size

From special districts with a two-person finance function to counties with a full internal audit programme. Partner and member organisation marks appear here as we publish them.

Municipalities
County government
School districts
Special districts
Authorities
Research & insights

Latest from the research library

Twenty-five publications across AI governance, municipal budgeting, fraud prevention, GASB and GAAP compliance, public-private partnerships, sustainable finance and digital transformation.

Ai Government Finance

Where AI Actually Helps in a Municipal Finance Office

Most of the value from machine learning in local government finance is not in prediction. It is in triage — deciding which of ten thousand transactions a human should look at first.

Talk to us about your oversight programme

Walk through the platform with your own chart of accounts, or start with the research library. Both routes are free to begin.