Cengkuru Michael
Visual essays.
Not posts. Each one is a scene you operate: a model to run, a simulation to break, a query that fails in your hands. On infrastructure transparency, procurement disclosure, and accountability systems that survive real constraints.
Operable data model
The Name on the Certificate Is Not the Owner
Follow one bright line from a company certificate down to a human being and learn the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard by operating it: entity, person and relationship statements; claims, not truth; a dated, testable, write-only record. The companion essay shows what to do with it.
Jun 2026Enter →
Documentary photo essay
After the Award
After award, the record thins but the risk grows. Follow one bright data line through Uganda's upgraded GPP, then run a real query: 28.5% of competitive tenders attract only one bidder. Watch the data do accountability work.
Jun 2026Enter →
Investigative instrument
The Black Light for Public Money
A $50M contract names a company. Join procurement to ownership data and the same record names a person. Diverse on paper, one owner underneath.
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Living social atlas
Once a Ngonian
Drag a 3D chamber of 189 alumni; step into six rooms of conversation; watch a school network become adult infrastructure.
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Visual essay
The Second Infrastructure
A Ugandan power bill is the visible end of an invisible chain. Trace it back through the Bujagali PPP and you find the real infrastructure: a promise-machine of payments, guarantees, and risk that outlives the dam by decades.
Jun 16, 2026Enter →
Scrollytelling
Three validations, or you have shipped a draft
Kampala, 143 officers, the question that broke a year-old assumption.
May 8, 2026Enter →
Simulation
Why Disclosure Portals Die (And How to Build Ones That Don't)
Make five architecture calls; watch a portal live or die across three years.
Mar 31, 2026Enter →