Databook

This update consolidates AT&T vehicle tracking and LexisNexis legal research services into unified product families. It also refines data curation for the top 60 city-procured technologies, adding critical context on pricing levers, open-source alternatives, and vendor overlaps for key platforms like DocuSign, PayPal, and SAS.

This update curates six new major software families, increasing reviewed coverage to 81% of total contract value. It refines the public-facing descriptions to prevent outdated figures from conflicting with live database calculations, and adds cross-references for fleet management systems and complex corporate relationships.

Updated the public Licenses page to correct outdated statistics and published a new documentation guide detailing the review process, planned improvements, and key findings for the page.

This update adds a new section to vendor and product pages highlighting pending citywide purchasing agreements and contract ceilings that were previously invisible in the data. It also introduces curated context for Salesforce and MyCity, clarifying how reseller contracts, platform labor, and unregistered agreements affect reported spending totals.

This update completes the hand-review of the city's top 20 procurement license families, increasing the publicly reviewed share of contract value from 53.8% to 89.4%. It adds public reasoning and pricing benchmarks for major vendors like Axon, SoundThinking, and Dataminr to help users understand these high-value technology purchases.

This update corrects the spelling of "licenses" in the page title on the family profile page. It also updates internal page comments to accurately reflect that the analysis is now publicly published.