HOW IT WORKS
Every regulated dollar in the country runs on the same shape of problem: a rulebook written to be nearly unreadable, a live deal that has to satisfy the rules and a record of who won the deals before.
01 · THE ENGINE
Skumu built a scalable engine that enforces the public capital rules: thousands of deterministic rules engines that run a program's scoring and some hardcore math behind it all, executed the same way every time. Not a model's opinion of the rules — we have the rules, executed.
Any public program is thousands of pages of scoring rules, math and eligibility tests. Skumu compiles a program into deterministic checks and fires every one against your live deal — the moment it loads and again each time the deal changes. Same inputs, same result, every time, the way the agency itself will run them internally. When the record is incomplete, our engines don't hallucinate a number — we name the missing data you need to win and we tell you what to fix and how to fix it.
02 · THE CORPUS
Public capital is the rare market that already published decades of who won and who lost, in the open. The scores are a search away. The reason behind them is not. Skumu holds that outcome record — including the applications that lost, which is the part that matters, because winners alone can't tell you where the funding line fell apart or why a top-scoring deal still missed. That is the difference between repeating what a rule says and knowing how it really gets applied. It deepens with every round an agency publishes and in every program we point the engine at, to help you win some of the trillions in public capital. That doesn't come with the latest AI model.
Sherman Way · $47.6M · 31 requirements · 9 evidence items
Day one: NO GO — not this cycle
Three threshold items blocking it cold — each routed to the firm that owns it.
Developer CTCAC 9% allocation letter — outstanding
−4.650 points to the agency review
Counsel Closing conditions — 0 of 9 on file
9 to track · 0 of 9 on file
Public affairs Letter of Support · Council District 3
Securing on the record
This deal's state is on the record · CA-24-044 · every entry traces to source
03 · THE HARNESS
Without the harness, our engines and the data corpus would be a vault nobody could open. Our harness is how we create governance: nothing enters the official project record without a human approving it, so nothing runs on stale evidence and every answer traces back to its source. We bring each party's real work — the applications, the evidence, the approvals — into one system along with the rules and the record, pointing at one job: clearing what blocks a deal. This is the shape every regulated deal shares, whatever the program funds.
THE MACHINE WORKS
We chose California affordable housing as our first large scale market test because California is one of the hardest versions of the problem: dense regulation, competitive scoring, expensive specialists, political judgment and deadlines that don't care how many people were copied on an email. If Skumu can make the decision legible here, the platform can travel wherever rules, evidence and capital collide.
A trillion dollars a year moves through public programs, and every one of them is its own thicket — energy, grants, infrastructure, transit, housing — each moving tens of billions, each locked behind its own unreadable ruleset. Nobody has built the machine that reads them. We did. And the engine doesn't care which program it's pointed at: feeding it a new program isn't a rebuild — it's a rulebook. Skumu gets stronger with every rulebook it eats and every round that closes.
The engine carries: our backend that runs the checks, our corpus that grades the outcomes and our harness that drives it all — and it carries straight to the next vertical. One program was the proof. The architecture was built for all of them.
Skumu is live at app.skumu.ai