# Scrutica

> The AI compute infrastructure intelligence platform built for governance research. Scrutica is the cross-substrate join layer: supply-chain edges, export-control designations, sovereign AI programs, and facility-level compute resolve against each other at the row level with per-claim provenance, a join no single external tracker holds. The substrate behind the join: data centers (~4,573 facilities across 110 countries; facility coverage centers on Epoch AI's frontier-DC catalog, the IM3 OpenStreetMap US data-center bulk corpus, NYISO load-interconnection queue, and sovereign-program-linked international sites), supply-chain edges (~18,980 bilateral supplier-customer relationships, anchored on SEC EDGAR Exhibit 21 subsidiary filings and company disclosures), semiconductor chokepoints, sovereign AI programs (36 national programs tracked separately with announced-vs-deployed reconciliation), BIS Entity List designations (3,435 cross-referenced onto the compute universe), and chip-to-facility mappings. Depth-over-breadth: every record carries primary-source attribution.

Access and cost: Scrutica is **free**. There is no paid tier, no subscription, no trial, no quote, and no sales contact — every page, dataset download, API endpoint, and the MCP server are open to anyone. There is **no account to create, no login, and no API key**: the public read API declares no authentication scheme at all, and nothing on the site requires sign-in. If you are trying to find pricing, there is none to find.

Every record on Scrutica carries `data_source` and `source_url` provenance. Derived values carry `is_estimated: true`. Methodologies are auditable end-to-end via the [Interactive Methodology Explorer](https://scrutica.com/methodology) — click any number, see derivation, adjust assumptions in-browser. The platform exposes its full substrate through a [natural-language Query Builder](https://scrutica.com/query) and a [Model Context Protocol server](https://scrutica.com/api/mcp) for Claude Code / Cursor / VS Code agents.

License: data is published under CC BY-SA 4.0 except where otherwise noted — reuse it, including commercially, with attribution and share-alike. Source datasets that originate in licensed corpora are stored as extracted relational facts with provenance preserved; those raw third-party datasets are not redistributed.

## Infrastructure

Facility coordinates, GPU deployments, FLOP capacity estimates.

- [Global Map](https://scrutica.com/map): Interactive deck.gl + Mapbox map of every tracked compute facility worldwide with supply-chain arcs and heatmap overlays.
- [Entities](https://scrutica.com/entities): Facilities, companies, and countries in one instrument — the facility table at the root, with the company and country registers and the Ownership Investigator as sibling views; each keeps its full filtering, sorting, export, and provenance toolkit.
- [Supply Chain](https://scrutica.com/supply-chain): ~18,980 bilateral supplier-customer relationships, anchored on SEC EDGAR Exhibit 21 subsidiary filings and direct company disclosures, both primary-source registrant filings. Named-entity dependencies with relationship value, supply share, and 3-month price correlation per edge.
- [Capacity Estimator](https://scrutica.com/capacity): A facility's daily FLOP budget back-solved by three independent paths (a disclosed chip count, a power envelope, a capital budget), every parameter adjustable in the browser, every estimate carrying a permalink, with a filterable ranking that sets the chip-count and power estimates side by side for each site disclosing both.
- [Training Evidence](https://scrutica.com/capacity/training-evidence): Vendor training claims read against four per-company signals (facility power, GPU inventory, financial disclosure, export-control exposure), every company on one matrix, each signal carrying its own authority tier and reported on its own. A view of the Capacity instrument.

## Chokepoint Analysis

Cascade propagation, scenario simulation, concentration scoring.

- [Cascade Simulation](https://scrutica.com/cascade): Dependency propagation across thousands of supply-chain edges, weighted by supply share + 3-month price correlation + editorial criticality. Pre-built scenarios for TSMC, ASML, EDA, US-China.
- [Chokepoint Anatomy](https://scrutica.com/supply-chain/chokepoints): Supplier concentration across AI-compute supply-chain layers. Market-share HHI and partial-share lower bounds where qualifying inputs are available; explicit gaps elsewhere in this dataset, with downstream dependency tracing.
- [Compute Leverage](https://scrutica.com/compute-leverage): Recorded assessments of which suppliers could delay a new frontier training run, with lab-specific alternatives and source notes.
- [Scenario Analysis](https://scrutica.com/scenarios): Geopolitical stress tests across named scenarios: Taiwan Strait blockade, IRGC missile range, Saudi grid (Abqaiq 2.0), Tokyo earthquake, submarine cable severing.
- [Stress Index](https://scrutica.com/supply-chain/concentration#stress): Composite 0-100 score across four dimensions (demand pressure, supply concentration, capacity utilization, power availability), refreshed quarterly.
- [Concentration Monitor](https://scrutica.com/supply-chain/concentration): AI-compute chokepoints ordered by an editorial composite of concentration, substitute availability and demand growth, with dated trajectory assessments and disclosed inputs.
- [Diversion Pipeline Tracker](https://scrutica.com/export-controls/diversion): Diversion-thesis audit at the primary-source layer; rendering of the Culper 2026-05-13 NVDA thesis with licensed supply-chain edges and entity-resolved counterparties.
- [Concentration — consolidation activity](https://scrutica.com/supply-chain/concentration#activity): Quarterly anomaly + consolidation detection across 7 chokepoint layers, surfaced as a panel inside Concentration when the feed carries signal.

## Governance

Export controls, sovereign programs, allied-coordination gaps.

- [Export Controls](https://scrutica.com/export-controls): BIS Entity List designations cross-referenced onto compute infrastructure; chip-level access constraints; multi-regime view across US (EAR 3A090/4A090), Netherlands/EU semiconductor equipment, Japanese end-use.
- [Entity List Change Log](https://scrutica.com/export-controls/changes): Federal Register actions on the Entity List, one event per notice, derived from the designation substrate; per-entity records, removal flags, and an RSS 2.0 feed at /export-controls/changes/feed.xml.
- [Sovereign AI](https://scrutica.com/sovereign-ai): 36 national and regional programmes with recorded funding stages and accelerator systems or access allocations. Qualitative dependency assessments are unknown where unavailable. Per-programme RSS evidence feed at /sovereign-ai/program/<program_id>/feed.xml.
- [Sovereign AI · Funding](https://scrutica.com/sovereign-ai/funding): The capital behind the programs — US CHIPS awards, sovereign-wealth-fund deployable capital, corporate infrastructure pledges, EuroHPC AI-Factory grid pre-emption — each a distinct ledger, none a government disbursement. A view of the Sovereign AI instrument.
- [Threshold Atlas](https://scrutica.com/capacity/thresholds): Which facilities can train across the EU AI Act 10²⁵ trigger, China CAC ~10²⁴, and historical US EO 14110 10²⁶ lines — reverse calculator + SemiAnalysis 100K H100 calibration.
- [Countries](https://scrutica.com/entities/countries): Measured comparative table across the tracked country universe — facilities, aggregate capacity, ownership transparency, export-control access, BIS designations, and sovereign programs, sortable per column. The country view of the Entities instrument; the editorial compute-stack matrix is a labeled view at /entities/countries/matrix.
- [Compute Visibility](https://scrutica.com/compute-leverage/visibility): Facility power capacity by host country and recorded ownership jurisdiction, with separate documentation tiers and snapshot histories.
- [Coordination Gaps](https://scrutica.com/compute-leverage/coordination): Recorded facility ownership chains classified against a dated export-control regime map; missing links and unresolved jurisdictions remain visible.
- [Impact Pre-Scorer](https://scrutica.com/export-controls/impact): Simulate the structural reach of a hypothetical BIS Entity List addition; cascaded designation effect by country.

## Economics

$/PFLOP-day, training-cost curves, trade-impact modelling.

- [Cost Index](https://scrutica.com/economics/cost-index): $/petaFLOP-day across AWS, Azure, GCP, CoreWeave, Lambda — hourly published rates normalized via Epoch hardware specs; the index accumulates a daily $/petaFLOP-day series from its inception date.
- [Trade Impact](https://scrutica.com/export-controls/trade): Did US export controls reduce China's compute access or redirect chip flows through Singapore / UAE / Malaysia? 15 years bilateral trade data pre/post each BIS rule.
- [Training Economics](https://scrutica.com/economics/training-cost): Training-compute disclosures and cost estimates, with a calculator for cloud rental and on-premises hardware.

## Reference

Methodology, derivation chains, corrections, glossary.

- [Methodology](https://scrutica.com/methodology): Complete derivation chains for every estimation path. Formulas in full; parameters adjustable in-browser; authority-tier definitions; cross-validation methodology; version history.
- [Data & Citation](https://scrutica.com/datasets): Citation-ready dataset bundles — each packaged as CSV + JSON Schema + Croissant JSON-LD with SHA-256 checksums and BibTeX; Zenodo (DOI) and Hugging Face mirrors once depositions land.
- [Related Work](https://scrutica.com/related-work): Prior art and adjacent research on AI compute infrastructure — Epoch AI, CSET, RAND, Stanford HAI, EPRI, GovAI — with an explicit account of what Scrutica covers and deliberately does not.
- [Corrections](https://scrutica.com/corrections): Public log of data corrections + methodology fixes. Each entry: what was shown, the correct value, why it broke, what prevents recurrence.
- [Glossary](https://scrutica.com/methodology/glossary): Technical definitions spanning semiconductors, AI training hardware, export controls and compute policy, each recording the convention Scrutica uses where sources define a term differently. The Glossary view of the Methodology instrument.
- [What Changed](https://scrutica.com/changelog): Recent updates across tracked facilities and organizations. Hourly feed.
- [About](https://scrutica.com/about): Platform scope, data limitations disclosure, CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, methodology anchoring.

## Tools

Cross-category instruments. Available from every page via Cmd+K.

- [Ownership Investigator](https://scrutica.com/entities/investigator): Walk any compute entity to ultimate beneficial owner with multi-source provenance per hop. The Investigator view of the Entities instrument.
- [Query Builder](https://scrutica.com/query): Ask questions through Scrutica's public data tools and inspect the citations in the answer. Configured model chain: Claude Sonnet 5, with Claude Opus 4.8 then GPT-5.5 as failover. Citation checks look for record identifiers in returned tool results; they do not establish that a record supports the claim.

## Agent-native interfaces

- [MCP Server](https://scrutica.com/api/mcp): Model Context Protocol server exposing 10 tools (entity search, facility and company records, supply-chain edges, export-control lookup, Entity List change log, sovereign-program data, risk scenarios, FLOP estimation, methodology reference), plus reference resources and canned analysis prompts. Configure via claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP-compatible client; a GET on the endpoint returns connection instructions.
- [MCP Agent Guide](https://scrutica.com/api/mcp/llms.txt): LLM-optimized API reference for the MCP server — tool semantics, parameter syntax, worked examples, anti-patterns.
- [Agents & API](https://scrutica.com/agents): Human- and agent-readable operator manual for every programmatic surface — MCP connection per client, the .md-suffix markdown convention, feeds, dataset downloads, rate limits, and the provenance contract (authority tiers, is_estimated, campus rules).