Parallax

Parallax is a research tool from DisclosureWorks for building a checkable public record from primary sources, on any subject where the record matters. It is not a project about one case. This first edition uses two subjects to show what the tool does: how Congress oversees national security power, and the released record of the Jeffrey Epstein case, chosen because its documents are public, large and contested. What you can read here is what the tool produces, in two forms: the Research Atlas, a reference layer for people and AI research agents, and Publications, finished analyses that each apply the same method to one question in depth. Neither is a manual for the tool; its documentation comes with the open-source release.

The problem

Research into how government power is used, and into the investigations that follow, is hard to trust. Claims are made without the primary document behind them, or with a citation no reader can check. Conclusions are presented without the evidence that produced them or the steps that led from one to the other. And the underlying record is too large to hold in one head: a single investigation can release millions of pages, and no reader, newsroom or committee staff can keep every claim anchored to the page that supports it, or notice when a later release changes what an earlier page meant.

Parallax is built to fix those four problems: no primary source, no checkable evidence, no transparency about method, and no way to retain and track a large evidence set over time.

Publications: publications.disclosureworks.ai

Finished policy papers and memos for the people who make decisions. The first edition has a research paper, National Security Power and Constitutional Imbalance, and an assessment of the Epstein Files Transparency Act II (H.R. 9694 / S. 5005). Each comes as a web page and as Word and PDF downloads.

Research Atlas: atlas.disclosureworks.ai

Short, citable reference pages, 89 in the first edition, grouped by topic: Congressional Oversight (how oversight works, oversight law, the 1975 investigations, Iran-Contra, surveillance and privacy law, executive power) and Epstein (the legal record, the documentary record, historical precursors). Built for people and for AI research agents: every edition has a machine-readable manifest with a fingerprint for each page.

How it is made

• Primary sources first: statutes, court filings, congressional reports and transcripts, declassified government records and released case files.
• Every citation checked against the source we hold, and every page approved by name before it is published.
• Built with AI research and review tools, approved by people.
• Fixed, fingerprinted editions, so a citation always points to the exact text you read. Corrections are made in public.
• The evidence is kept. Every source behind a page is retained with its fingerprint, so a claim can be traced to its document in any later edition, and a page can be re-checked when new records are released.

Why Epstein, and why not only Epstein

The Epstein record is the first demonstration subject because it is one of the largest bodies of primary documents ever released about a single investigation, and it is public. The same method applies to any subject with a documentary record: an agency, a program, a statute, a company, a historical episode. Later editions will add subjects that have nothing to do with this case.

Where it is going

The Atlas and Publications are updated every month with a new edition. Parallax is built as a general research tool. We plan to release it as open-source software, starting with a developer preview, so others can check our work, run the same methods on public records, and build on them. Future releases will open the Atlas to public collaboration and contributions.

Contact

Corrections and feedback: corrections@disclosureworks.ai. Security and privacy reports: security@disclosureworks.ai.