PoliticHook

PoliticHook is a monitoring and alerting tool for people who want visibility into how US lawmakers invest. Members of Congress are required to disclose their securities trades, but the filings are published as scanned documents on an official disclosure portal and can appear as much as a month after the trade itself. PoliticHook watches that source on your behalf and pushes the details to your inbox, aiming to surface the information earlier than casual manual checking.

The core technical challenge is that disclosure filings are not clean data. They arrive as messy PDFs, low-quality scans, and occasionally handwritten forms, with inconsistent formatting for tickers and share counts. PoliticHook addresses this with an OCR system built on OpenAI's GPT API that interprets the documents and extracts the trade details. When a filing is genuinely too difficult to read, the service falls back to sending you the original PDF rather than guessing.

Functionally, PoliticHook sits alongside other congressional trade trackers. It is aimed at investors, traders, and researchers who want alerts rather than a browsable database, and it lets you scope tracking to specific members (higher tiers allow following more). Because the platform was not reachable during our latest audit, treat any specific pricing or plan details as something to confirm on signup; the core value proposition — fast alerts on primary disclosure documents — is what the service has consistently been built around.