About BlazingStar Analytics
Why This Exists
I'm Joe Carlile, founder of BlazingStar Analytics. I spent years working in federal budget execution. I've written appropriations language, built program execution schedules, and tracked spending across agencies. The one thing I could never find was a tool that connected the full chain—from what Congress appropriated to where the money actually went.
The data is public. It's just scattered across four disconnected systems that don't talk to each other. So I built the thing that should exist—the tool I wish I had when I started 20 years ago.
What We Do
BlazingStar Analytics connects federal budget data from appropriation to award. We pull from Congress, OMB, and USAspending daily, validate it automatically, and make it queryable in one platform.
No manual reconciliation. No spreadsheet archaeology. No deciphering codes. No six-month FOIA waits.
These barriers create information asymmetries that disadvantage smaller agencies, nonprofit grantees, and public interest researchers. BlazingStar levels the playing field.
Who We Serve
We built this for everyone in the funding lifecycle:
If you regularly interact with federal funding, we think BlazingStar Analytics can help you make sense of the landscape.
Congressional staff tracking whether agencies are executing Congress's intent
Federal budget professionals benchmarking execution across accounts, programs, agencies, and the government
State and local officials who need visibility into federal pass-through funding
Grantees and recipients who need to understand what's happening upstream
Government affairs professionals who lose visibility after legislation passes
Journalists and researchers who need queryable data, not document dumps
Our Commitment
We operate with the same transparency we advocate for in government. That means being clear about our data sources, methodology, and limitations. It means designing for privacy by default. And it means listening.
BlazingStar makes existing public data more accessible and actionable. We work alongside—not against—the dedicated public servants who manage federal budgets. After all, they're doing the hard work of generating the data—we're simply ingesting it and making sense of it.
All of the data we work with is public, and our blog will teach you how to find it, read it, and track it yourself—for free, permanently. We think federal spending literacy shouldn't be gatekept. But if you'd rather have it all connected in one platform, that's what BlazingStar is. We hope you'll give us a shot.
"Federal budget data belongs to the public. Our job is to make it genuinely useful."
