Jessey Baraka Charo
Building a public transparency engine that surfaces where institutional money converges — so everyday investors see the same signals.
Public filings. Buried signals.
Congress trades, hedge fund 13F holdings, and index fund N-PORT compositions are public by law — but scattered across government portals in formats that favor institutional access. The Insider Index pulls it all into one convergence engine so retail investors see what smart money sees, without a Bloomberg terminal.
How I Build
- 01
Backend-first
API contracts and data pipelines before any UI.
- 02
Auditable by default
- 03
Ship in public
Production deploys are the feedback loop.
- 04
Simple beats clever
No abstractions until the third repetition.
Why This Matters
“The people these disclosures are meant to protect are the last to see them.”
Congressional and hedge fund disclosures sit in PDFs, SGML feeds, and inconsistent government portals. TII closes that information gap.
Proof of Execution
- Platform
- Full-stack Next.js 16 — 50+ API routes, SEC & Congressional data pipelines.
- iOS App
- Native SwiftUI — Apple/Google OAuth, APNs push notifications.
- Security
- 16-agent adversarial audit — sessions, RLS policies, trust boundaries, PII handling.
- Data
- Providers — Alpha Vantage, QuiverQuant.
Sole engineer — design, backend, iOS, infrastructure, deployment.
Looking For
Early Users
Track where Congress, hedge funds, and index funds converge on the same positions.
Engineers
Public-data infrastructure, fintech tooling, SEC filing parsers.
Advisors
Financial data products, regulatory technology, early-stage growth.
Let's Talk
Book a 15-minute intro to discuss the platform, partnerships, or investment opportunities. Weekday evenings, Monday through Thursday, Pacific time.