Public records & government data, kept clean and current.

CivicDataForge builds and maintains data extractors for the public-records sources businesses actually need — delivered as structured JSON, priced per use, no seat license.

Why our data is different: every extractor is monitored and repaired fast when a source site changes, so your pipeline doesn't quietly break. One clean, deduplicated schema per dataset. Sourced from official open-data portals, accessed logged-out.

Data products

Healthcare compliance

LEIE Healthcare Exclusion Screening

Screen staff & vendors against the federal OIG exclusion list (NPI + fuzzy-name match), or pull the full list by state/specialty. Updated monthly — the screen every healthcare employer must run.

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Real estate · proptech · lending

STR Permit Registry

The official government short-term-rental permit records — permit ID, status, address, expiration — not Airbnb listings. The one field marketplace scrapers can't give you: legal permit status.

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Insurance · childcare SaaS

Childcare Licensing + Violations

Every licensed childcare operation with its full compliance record — inspections, deficiency counts by severity, corrective/adverse actions. Texas + multi-state. Underwrite on real history.

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Film · location scouting

Film & TV Production Permits

Every NYC film/TV shooting permit — the exact streets held, dates, category, borough. Straight from city open data, in clean JSON. (LA / West Hollywood rolling out.)

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Media · newsletter intelligence

Substack Archive + Benchmark Analytics

Any Substack's full post archive plus publication-level benchmarks — paid/free ratio, posting cadence, average engagement. Size a newsletter before a sponsorship, or track the space.

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More, shipping continuously

Property violations · music splits · more

Multi-city code-enforcement violations, music-publishing splits (MLC), and a growing catalog of niche public-records datasets. New sources ship regularly.

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How it works

Every dataset is an Apify Actor: run it on demand or on a schedule, get structured JSON, and pay only for the records you pull. Need a specific dataset or city? Ask on any Actor — new sources ship fast.

Use it in your AI agent (MCP)

Every dataset is exposed as an MCP tool, so AI agents can call and pay for it directly. Add this one MCP server to give your agent all of CivicDataForge's civic & public-records tools:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=civicdataforge/leie-exclusion-screening,civicdataforge/str-permit-registry,civicdataforge/texas-childcare-licensing,civicdataforge/nyc-film-permits,civicdataforge/newsletter-data

Works with Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client. Your agent authenticates with your own Apify key and pays per record — no separate signup.