Cengkuru Michael
I build disclosure and integrity systems for public spending that survive real government constraints.
What I Do
Disclosure Automation
Build systems that publish government spending data automatically. OC4IDS and OCDS compliant.
Integrity Monitoring
Automated red flag detection and anomaly signals for procurement oversight.
Open Data Platforms
Design infrastructure transparency portals that make public spending searchable and analyzable.
Featured Work
Selected Writing
LLMs Can Read 100,000 Contracts. Here's Why That's Not Enough.
LLMs accelerate pattern detection in procurement data. They also accelerate false confidence. A practitioner's field guide to what works, what breaks, and what to build instead.
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Wrong Fields Corrupt Your Data. Five Rules for OC4IDS Mapping.
A technical guide for implementers converting government infrastructure data to OC4IDS. Covers the five most common mapping errors: parties array, identifiers, budget vs contract value, date periods, and status codelists.
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Why Transparency Portals Die
The most successful infrastructure disclosure system I helped build stopped updating eighteen months after launch. Technology worked. Data standard was correct. Two years later, the portal loads. Nobody maintains it. After a decade building these systems across Africa and Southeast Asia, here's why disclosure portals die - and what survival requires.
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