About

HillGraph

HillGraph is a congressional intelligence platform. We collect, structure, and connect public data on the people who work in Congress, the offices they serve, their compensation, and their privately-funded travel. We also track policies and the members and staffers behind them.

Who is behind HillGraph

I’m Jonathan Looi. I’ve spent my career turning messy data into actionable information - hunting cyber threat actors at Google, applying graph analysis and link prediction to map adversary infrastructure at MITRE, and doing incident forensics at the Federal Reserve. Currently I work at In-Q-Tel, the strategic investor for the U.S. Intelligence Community, on cyber and AI.

HillGraph is that same instinct to make sense of disparate data applied to a different problem set. The most consequential decisions in technology policy, including how the U.S. governs AI, get decided by staffers behind the scenes.

I wanted one place where I could map influence networks: which members are involved in policies, what committees they sit on, who staffs the offices that matter, what policy areas those staffers focus on, who funds their travel, and how it all connects. So I built it by building the data pipelines for OCR’ing filings, resolving entities, and running research agents across the public record to assemble the graph.

HillGraph is a personal project, built on my own time and entirely on public records. It reflects my views, not those of my employer. You can find me at jonathanlooi.com or on LinkedIn.

What we do

Congressional staffers shape policy but are largely behind the scenes. HillGraph makes that information accessible and searchable, connecting staffers to offices, salary records, travel disclosures, and the organizations funding congressional travel.

Our site is used by policy researchers, advocacy organizations, and congressional staffers who need to know who is in the room before the meeting starts.

The record

Eight interlocking sections, refreshed daily from primary sources.

People

Every staffer who has appeared on a House or Senate disbursement record since ~2010 including title, office, tenure, and compensation.

Offices

Member offices, committees, and leadership shops their rosters and payroll trends.

Trips

Privately-funded travel disclosed under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act with destinations, funders, dates, and the staffers on the trip.

Trip Funders

The organizations paying for those trips, with their FARA status when they were paying, their lobbying disclosures, and the Hill offices they touched.

FARA

Foreign Agents Registration Act filings. Registrants, foreign principals, and the contacts they reported with congressional offices.

Bills

Bills introduced in Congress with sponsor, committee, stage, last action, and cosponsor breakdown.

Executive Orders

Every U.S. presidential executive order from 1994 to today, full-text searchable.

Policy Dashboards

Live trackers that aggregate the bills, executive orders, and members behind a single issue such as AI, crypto, cybersecurity, nuclear, and quantum into one view.

Sources

Hillgraph is built entirely on public records and on independent research. We do not republish third-party datasets, and we do not buy data we cannot verify against an original filing.

• §House and Senate Statements of Disbursements
• §Senate Office of Public Records (lobbying & travel)
• §Clerk of the House — privately-funded travel filings
• §DOJ FARA Registration Unit
• §House and Senate ethics committee reports
• §Committee rosters and assignment records

A full methodology memo accompanies every Custom Data delivery. See pricing for bulk and API access.