About Datatrove

An AI-powered research assistant that searches across 11,269 datasets from 76 sources to help you find, understand, and combine public government data.

The problem

Public data is scattered across dozens of government websites, portals, and PDF reports. State open data portals often hold hundreds or thousands of datasets, but many are outdated — some uploaded once years ago and never refreshed. Statistical tables exist with no search. Tourism, labor, tax, education, energy, and health data each live on different portals with different formats and different update schedules.

If you're trying to answer a question like “How did a major wildfire affect tourism and employment?” — you'd need to know which portals exist, search each one separately, figure out which datasets are current, and manually identify how they connect. Most people give up.

What Datatrove does

We've unified metadata from 76government data sources into a single AI-powered research assistant. You ask questions in plain language, and the AI searches across all sources simultaneously — finding datasets you didn't know existed, suggesting how to combine them, and flagging when data is stale or incomplete.

The AI doesn't just run a keyword search. It decomposes your question into data needs, runs multiple targeted searches, inspects the most promising datasets at the field level, and composes an answer that explains what data exists, how to access it, and what's missing. When multiple sources cover the same topic, it recommends the best starting point and explains why.

We don't host the data itself — we point you to the original sources. What we add is the intelligence layer that makes scattered government data discoverable, comparable, and trustworthy.

Who this is for

Researchers & academics

Find datasets across agencies without knowing which portal to search. Discover how datasets connect through shared keys like county and year.

Journalists

Get answers to data questions in seconds instead of days of portal hunting and public records requests for data that's already published.

Policy analysts & legislators

Back up arguments with data. Find what's available on housing, health, education, or the economy without relying on a single source.

Community advocates & grant writers

Find health, housing, and demographic data for needs assessments. Census-tract-level health data most people don't know exists.

Why trust matters

Government open data portals lose public trust by going stale — datasets claiming “monthly updates” that haven't changed in years, empty descriptions, test data mixed with real data. Every dataset in our catalog goes through a rigorous quality pipeline that includes:

  • Deterministic freshness scoring — computed from actual data, not opinions. If it's stale, we say so prominently.
  • Four-layer quality verification — every piece of metadata is checked by a parser, cross-verified by AI, audited independently, and finally tested end-to-end via a QA Loop against the live API. We catch and fix our own errors before shipping.
  • Cross-source intelligence — when multiple sources cover the same topic, we identify which is fresher, which is more detailed, and flag stale copies.
  • Self-healing pipelines — when government sources change format, the system detects and adapts automatically. No human maintenance required.

What's next

We're continuing to add sources and improve data quality. Our goal is to cover every major public data source and eventually bring this approach to other states and regions. See our methodology page for the full details of how we ensure quality across every dataset.

Get in touch

Questions, feedback, or partnership inquiries — email support@kahidreamers.com.

If you know of a public data source that isn't in our catalog, or if you work for a government agency and want to make your data more discoverable, reach out. We're actively expanding our coverage.

Datatrove is built by KahiDreamers. We believe public data should be easy to find, honest about its limitations, and useful to the people it's meant to serve.