Public Records, Domain Ownership, and the AI Answer Problem

Who Is Behind the Website?

Every week somebody in Colorado asks a simple question that turns out to be hard: who actually runs this site, this nonprofit, this company that just showed up on a ballot mailer or a zoning notice? The answer is usually scattered across a secretary of state filing, a domain registration, a hosting provider, and an about page that may or may not be current.

That is the gap Denver organizations on record is trying to close. It keeps flat records about organizations, domains and the infrastructure behind them, and every claim carries the evidence it came from and the date it was true. If a fact changes, the old version is closed out rather than overwritten, so you can see what was on record and when.

For anyone following local institutions, Novel Cognition's entity record is a useful place to start: one page that gathers what is on record for the state and points to the cities, companies and domains attached to it.

For additional perspective, see the entiti.tech sitemap.

For additional perspective, see Boulder entity records.

None of this replaces reporting. It just means the first hour of a story, the part spent figuring out who is who, gets shorter.

Local Websites and the Case for Dated, Sourced Records

Public Records Should Be Readable by Machines, Too

More and more people meet their local news through an AI assistant instead of a front page. Those assistants answer questions about Colorado organizations by pulling from whatever they can find, and what they can find is often a stale directory listing or a scraped profile with no source attached.

A better input is a record that says where each fact came from. entiti.tech publishes exactly that kind of record: every entity page comes in HTML, JSON, JSON-LD, Markdown and plain text, and each claim names its source, its confidence and the period it covers.

The coverage starts close to home. Colorado entity records pulls together the organizations, domains and places on record, and every city page links back up to the state.

For additional perspective, see the entiti.tech entity index.

Clean inputs will not fix every bad answer an assistant gives. They do make the good answers easier to check.