cupids-lab
Projects

What we're building, in the open.

Archives, investigations, and collaborations that turn fragile public data into durable public accountability.

Featured · CUPIDS × CEJ

Preserving environmental accountability

Identifying, archiving, and documenting the public environmental data Colorado journalism depends on — and putting it back in reporters' hands when sources go dark. Supported by the 2026 de Castro Research Award.

56-source catalog — water, fire, wind, minerals, pollution, land use
Every source flagged for enclosure & erosion risk
Reservoir-storage pipeline — 130+ reservoirs, refreshed monthly
Citable archiving via Harvard Dataverse (DOIs)
Streamflow & snowpack pipelines — next
Journalist → data-citation corpus, 2014–present
2026–27 · de Castro Research Award

More from the lab

Agent skills

Two portable, open-source agent skills that turn the lab's repeatable work — liberating civic data, and building the project around it — into reusable software any AI assistant can run.

data-liberation — get data out of PDFs, FOIA dumps, and scraped sites into tidy, documented datasets
data-project — scaffold an accessible, documented, governed project around that data
Portable across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and other agent harnesses
Open source, MIT-licensed, free to fork
Open source · MIT-licensed
ARCHIVE

At-risk data archive

A growing, documented mirror of the datasets Coloradans depend on.