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GrantChain

The Open Ledger for Public Medicine

Overview

GrantChain is an AI-powered public accountability and research intelligence platform designed to track the journey of taxpayer-funded medical discoveries from federally funded U.S. universities and research institutions to pharmaceutical companies, commercial medications, pharmacies, and consumers.

The platform creates an interconnected, searchable database documenting how public research investments contribute to medical discoveries, how those discoveries are patented and commercialized, which pharmaceutical companies benefit from them, and what consumers ultimately pay for the resulting medications.

GrantChain enables individuals to upload prescription receipts, document their medication expenditures, and contribute verified purchase information to a growing national database of consumer prescription costs. AI-powered research and analysis connect these purchases to medications, manufacturers, pharmaceutical ownership, university discoveries, federal grants, patents, and licensing arrangements.

The overarching objective is to establish a transparent public record of the relationship between taxpayer-funded medical innovation and private pharmaceutical commercialization. GrantChain seeks to equip consumers, attorneys, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and public interest organizations with the evidence needed to investigate potential financial harm, evaluate legal claims, identify government recovery opportunities, and explore mechanisms for returning the value of public investment to the people.

Mission

To establish a comprehensive public ledger of federally funded medical discoveries and their commercial outcomes, providing transparency into pharmaceutical ownership, licensing, pricing, and consumer expenditures while supporting accountability for the use of taxpayer-funded research.

Core Objectives

Track federally funded medical research conducted at U.S. universities and research institutions.
Identify medical discoveries resulting from public research investments.
Connect research discoveries to patents, intellectual property ownership, and licensing agreements.
Identify pharmaceutical companies that commercialize publicly funded discoveries.
Track medications developed from taxpayer-funded research.
Document pharmaceutical manufacturers, corporate ownership, and commercialization relationships.
Collect consumer-submitted prescription receipts and verified medication purchase information.
Track prescription prices and consumer out-of-pocket expenditures.
Analyze publicly available pharmaceutical revenue and commercialization information.
Identify potential discrepancies between public research investment and private commercial benefits.
Support evidence-based investigations into pharmaceutical pricing and potential consumer financial harm.
Organize information relevant to potential class actions and government recovery opportunities.
Promote transparency, accountability, and public benefit from taxpayer-funded medical innovation.

Core Modules

Federally Funded Research Intelligence

Maintain a comprehensive database of federally funded medical research conducted at U.S. universities, laboratories, and research institutions.
Integrate federal research funding records from NIH, NSF, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other applicable federal agencies.
Track federal grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, awards, and research funding allocations.
Maintain university and research institution profiles.
Document principal investigators, research teams, laboratories, and affiliated institutions.
Track grant identification numbers, award dates, funding periods, and awarded amounts.
Maintain research abstracts, project descriptions, objectives, and published outcomes.
Identify medical discoveries resulting from individual or multiple federally funded research projects.
Track research milestones and commercialization potential.
Connect scientific publications to their originating research grants.
Document research funding contributed by federal, state, university, and private sources.
Identify discoveries that have not been commercialized.
Track abandoned, discontinued, or transferred research projects.
Maintain historical records of federal medical research investments.
Identify relationships between multiple grants contributing to the same discovery.
Provide searchable research funding histories.
Maintain source references for every research record.

Medical Discovery and Intellectual Property Intelligence

Maintain a searchable database of medical discoveries originating from publicly funded research.
Track discoveries involving medications, pharmaceutical compounds, biological therapies, vaccines, medical treatments, and related technologies.
Identify patents associated with university research and medical discoveries.
Integrate publicly available USPTO patent records.
Track patent applications, publication dates, approval dates, and expiration dates.
Identify patent inventors and original institutional affiliations.
Document patent ownership and assignment histories.
Track transfers of intellectual property between universities, research institutions, subsidiaries, and pharmaceutical companies.
Identify exclusive and nonexclusive licensing arrangements.
Document publicly disclosed licensing agreements and financial terms.
Track sublicensing arrangements and subsequent ownership changes.
Identify technology transfer offices responsible for commercializing university discoveries.
Connect research publications to patent applications and granted patents.
Identify related patents covering pharmaceutical formulations, manufacturing processes, delivery methods, and therapeutic applications.
Track patent portfolios associated with individual medications.
Identify discoveries involving multiple university research institutions.
Document applicable federal funding obligations and government rights.
Track relevant Bayh-Dole Act disclosures and government rights determinations.
Identify potential discrepancies in research attribution and intellectual property ownership.
Maintain historical patent and licensing relationship records.

Pharmaceutical Company and Commercialization Intelligence

Maintain a comprehensive database of pharmaceutical companies commercializing publicly funded medical discoveries.
Track pharmaceutical manufacturers, developers, licensees, distributors, and marketing authorization holders.
Identify corporate parent companies and subsidiaries.
Maintain corporate ownership and acquisition histories.
Track mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate succession.
Identify pharmaceutical companies holding licenses to publicly funded discoveries.
Connect companies to university research, patents, licensing agreements, and commercial medications.
Track commercialization timelines from initial discovery through market introduction.
Document publicly disclosed licensing royalties and milestone payments.
Identify exclusive commercialization arrangements.
Track pharmaceutical company relationships with contract research organizations and contract manufacturers.
Identify generic and biosimilar manufacturers entering markets associated with publicly funded discoveries.
Track changes in pharmaceutical product ownership.
Identify companies commercializing multiple publicly funded medical discoveries.
Document pharmaceutical commercialization activity across domestic and international markets.
Maintain historical company profiles and commercialization records.

Medicine and Prescription Intelligence

Maintain a comprehensive database of prescription medications associated with publicly funded medical discoveries.
Identify brand-name and generic medications.
Track active pharmaceutical ingredients and associated compounds.
Document dosage, strength, formulation, and delivery methods.
Identify manufacturers and pharmaceutical product owners.
Track FDA approval and regulatory histories.
Integrate applicable FDA Orange Book and Purple Book records.
Identify medications developed from patented university discoveries.
Connect medications to their originating research grants, institutions, patents, and licensing arrangements.
Identify combination medications containing multiple active ingredients.
Track medication ownership and manufacturing changes.
Monitor patent exclusivity and market protection periods.
Identify generic drug and biosimilar market entry.
Track medication discontinuations and market withdrawals.
Document available wholesale acquisition cost and publicly disclosed pricing information.
Maintain historical medication pricing records.
Identify significant medication price increases.
Compare available medication prices across manufacturers and pharmacies.
Distinguish original discoveries from subsequent formulations, improvements, and independently developed products.

Consumer Prescription Receipt Registry

Provide a secure portal for consumers to submit prescription purchase receipts.
Support receipt uploads through photographs, scanned documents, PDFs, and supported digital records.
Use AI-powered optical character recognition to extract receipt information.
Automatically identify medication names, manufacturers, dosage, quantity, pharmacy, purchase date, and transaction amount when available.
Extract insurance copayments, deductibles, discounts, and out-of-pocket expenses.
Distinguish consumer payments from insurance payments and other third-party payments.
Support insured, uninsured, cash, Medicare, Medicaid, and other prescription purchases.
Identify manufacturer coupons and pharmacy discount programs.
Allow users to correct automatically extracted information.
Provide receipt verification and duplicate detection.
Associate submitted receipts with known medication and pharmacy records.
Maintain individual prescription purchase histories.
Calculate cumulative medication expenditures.
Track annual and lifetime prescription spending.
Identify repeated purchases of the same medication.
Aggregate consumer purchase records for national pricing analysis.
Provide geographic comparisons of consumer-reported medication costs.
Allow users to export their personal prescription expenditure histories.
Maintain original receipt documents separately from publicly accessible aggregate information.
Redact unnecessary personal information before records are used in public reporting.
Allow users to control whether their submitted information may be used for research, investigation, or legal review.

Pharmacy and Retail Pricing Intelligence

Maintain a national database of retail pharmacies, independent pharmacies, pharmacy chains, and mail-order pharmacies.
Track pharmacy locations and corporate ownership.
Identify parent companies and affiliated pharmacy networks.
Associate consumer-submitted receipts with individual pharmacy locations.
Aggregate verified prescription purchase prices.
Compare medication prices across participating pharmacies.
Track historical consumer-reported pricing.
Identify geographic prescription pricing disparities.
Compare cash prices, insurance copayments, and reported out-of-pocket expenses.
Track available pharmacy discount programs.
Identify pharmacies offering lower-cost generic alternatives.
Monitor significant medication price fluctuations.
Analyze consumer-reported prescription sales activity.
Distinguish reported transaction counts from independently verified sales volumes.
Identify differences between publicly available pricing and actual consumer purchase prices.
Provide pharmacy-level pricing dashboards.
Generate national and regional prescription pricing reports.

AI Research and Relationship Intelligence

Automatically identify relationships between federal research grants, university discoveries, patents, licensing agreements, pharmaceutical companies, and medications.
Cross-reference NIH research records with USPTO patent records and FDA medication databases.
Analyze scientific publications to identify discoveries associated with publicly funded research.
Match pharmaceutical products to their documented research origins.
Identify pharmaceutical companies associated with individual patents and discoveries.
Map corporate parent companies, subsidiaries, and historical ownership changes.
Identify multiple research projects contributing to a single medication.
Analyze patent assignment and licensing histories.
Detect incomplete or inconsistent commercialization records.
Identify potential gaps in research attribution.
Automatically classify medications and pharmaceutical products.
Extract prescription information from submitted receipts.
Detect duplicate documents and research records.
Analyze historical medication pricing.
Identify unusual pricing patterns and significant price increases.
Analyze available pharmaceutical revenue and commercialization information.
Identify potential relationships between public research investment and private commercial benefits.
Generate evidence-supported investigative leads.
Produce research summaries with citations to original sources.
Assign confidence scores to automated relationship matches.
Flag uncertain findings for human verification.
Maintain an audit history of AI-generated findings and corrections.
Distinguish verified facts, estimated figures, user-reported information, and investigative hypotheses.
Never present an AI-generated relationship as independently established fact without supporting evidence.

Public Investment and Pharmaceutical Financial Analysis

Calculate cumulative federal funding associated with individual medical discoveries.
Aggregate federal research investments across universities and research institutions.
Identify medications associated with publicly funded discoveries.
Track publicly disclosed pharmaceutical revenue where available.
Compare public research investment with subsequent commercial activity.
Document publicly disclosed university licensing royalties.
Track available milestone payments and commercialization revenue.
Identify products generating commercial value from multiple publicly funded discoveries.
Analyze consumer prescription expenditures associated with tracked medications.
Aggregate verified user-submitted prescription expenses.
Compare medication prices across historical periods.
Identify significant price increases following commercialization.
Track market exclusivity and generic competition.
Analyze pharmaceutical market concentration.
Identify discrepancies between publicly funded innovation and public access.
Generate public investment accountability reports.
Develop potential consumer restitution scenarios using documented purchase data.
Support alternative public reimbursement and taxpayer recovery models.
Distinguish confirmed financial figures from estimates and projections.
Prevent double counting of research grants, commercialization revenue, and consumer expenditures.
Document calculation methodology, assumptions, and data limitations.

Class Action and Legal Research Intelligence

Identify potential patterns of consumer financial harm associated with medications developed from publicly funded research.
Aggregate consumer prescription purchase histories.
Identify common medication purchase patterns and pricing trends.
Organize evidence connecting federal funding, university discoveries, patents, licensing agreements, and pharmaceutical commercialization.
Identify potentially relevant intellectual property and federal research obligations.
Research applicable Bayh-Dole Act provisions and government rights.
Identify potential antitrust, consumer protection, pricing, and government contracting issues for attorney review.
Track pharmaceutical pricing litigation.
Monitor class action lawsuits involving prescription medications.
Track government investigations and enforcement actions.
Monitor relevant federal and state court proceedings.
Identify potential claimant groups based on medication, purchase period, geographic location, and other attorney-defined criteria.
Organize supporting receipts, invoices, patent records, grant records, and licensing documentation.
Generate evidence-based investigative reports.
Prepare downloadable research dossiers.
Support attorney-controlled claimant intake and case evaluation.
Provide attorney-reviewed damages and restitution calculations.
Track settlement announcements and claims administration.
Monitor settlement eligibility periods and filing deadlines.
Document government recovery actions and potential public reimbursement mechanisms.
Maintain complete source citations for legal research findings.

GrantChain provides investigative and research support and does not independently determine legal liability, establish a valid class action, or provide legal representation. Legal claims, claimant eligibility, damages, and litigation strategies must be evaluated by qualified legal professionals.

Consumer Restitution and Public Benefit Intelligence

Identify potential consumer restitution opportunities associated with investigated medications.
Aggregate documented consumer prescription expenditures.
Maintain historical purchase evidence.
Calculate potential consumer losses using attorney-defined legal scenarios.
Track proposed pharmaceutical settlements.
Monitor settlement eligibility requirements and claims periods.
Document confirmed settlement distributions.
Track government recoveries and enforcement-related financial settlements.
Analyze potential mechanisms for returning recovered funds to consumers and taxpayers.
Evaluate public reimbursement models.
Track proposals for public research reinvestment.
Document public benefit funds and recovery programs.
Compare projected recoveries with confirmed amounts.
Provide transparent accounting of recovered funds.
Generate public accountability reports.
Maintain historical records of restitution proposals and outcomes.

Public Transparency Dashboard

Provide public access to nonconfidential research and commercialization records.
Display federally funded medical discoveries across the United States.
Provide university-level research funding dashboards.
Display pharmaceutical company commercialization histories.
Provide medication-level research origin profiles.
Visualize patent ownership and licensing relationships.
Display pharmacy pricing comparisons.
Aggregate consumer-reported prescription expenditures.
Compare public research investments with available commercialization information.
Display historical medication price trends.
Provide geographic prescription expenditure analysis.
Identify medications associated with significant public research investment.
Display potential restitution opportunities with clear supporting evidence.
Provide national and state-level accountability reports.
Allow users to search by university, research grant, patent, company, medication, manufacturer, or pharmacy.
Provide downloadable nonconfidential datasets.
Publish research methodologies and calculation assumptions.
Display source citations and verification statuses.
Provide public access without requiring registration for nonrestricted information.

Data Integrity and Evidence Verification

Maintain source attribution for every imported research and commercial record.
Link records to original government databases, patent documents, scientific publications, and regulatory records.
Assign verification statuses to research, patent, licensing, company, medication, and pricing records.
Distinguish independently verified information from user-submitted information.
Support independent community review.
Provide expert verification workflows.
Detect duplicate research, patent, medication, and receipt records.
Identify conflicting information across source databases.
Maintain historical record versions.
Preserve audit histories of material changes.
Verify document integrity.
Track the provenance of AI-generated conclusions.
Assign confidence ratings to relationship matches.
Provide public correction and dispute submission processes.
Document the methodology used for financial analysis.
Maintain evidence references for investigative reports.
Preserve the distinction between documented facts, estimates, allegations, and opinions.

User Accounts and Personal Data Management

Provide secure user registration and authentication.
Support pseudonymous participation.
Maintain private consumer profiles.
Provide individual prescription expenditure dashboards.
Maintain personal medication purchase histories.
Provide secure receipt storage.
Allow users to manage document sharing permissions.
Provide granular consent controls for research participation.
Allow users to export personal purchase records.
Support requests for deletion of eligible personal information.
Provide controls for sharing information with qualified legal professionals.
Maintain account activity histories.
Allow users to review submitted evidence.
Provide receipt correction and withdrawal workflows.
Separate private claimant information from public aggregate statistics.
Require explicit consent before sharing identifiable information for legal investigations.

Community Research and Collaboration

Provide a public research contribution portal.
Allow community members to submit medical discovery records.
Support researcher and investigative journalist accounts.
Enable volunteer patent and licensing research.
Allow community verification of university research records.
Support collaborative pharmaceutical company investigations.
Provide public issue reporting.
Allow research annotations and documentation.
Support evidence submission and review workflows.
Maintain contributor profiles and verification histories.
Provide expert contributor recognition.
Support collaborative investigation workspaces.
Publish community-generated accountability reports.
Provide access to nonconfidential research datasets.
Encourage independent review of platform findings.

Data Integration and Public API

Integrate NIH RePORTER research funding records.
Integrate National Science Foundation research records.
Integrate applicable Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs research records.
Integrate USPTO patent records.
Integrate FDA drug approval and regulatory records.
Integrate FDA Orange Book and Purple Book information.
Integrate ClinicalTrials.gov records.
Integrate PubMed and scientific publication records.
Integrate federal grants and contract information.
Integrate CMS Medicare Part D pricing and utilization data.
Integrate publicly available pharmaceutical pricing and revenue information.
Support university technology transfer disclosures where available.
Support pharmacy pricing data imports.
Support bulk CSV, JSON, and spreadsheet imports.
Provide automated data synchronization.
Schedule recurring source database updates.
Reconcile duplicate records across external sources.
Provide a public read-only API.
Provide authenticated contributor API access.
Support research data export endpoints.
Publish API documentation.
Provide third-party integration capabilities.

Reporting and Research Publication

Generate automated research-to-commercialization reports.
Generate university federal funding reports.
Generate pharmaceutical company commercialization reports.
Generate medication public funding origin reports.
Generate consumer prescription expenditure reports.
Generate pharmacy pricing disparity reports.
Generate patent and licensing relationship reports.
Generate public investment and commercial activity comparisons.
Generate potential legal investigation reports.
Generate national and state-level public accountability reports.
Generate evidence packages with supporting source references.
Support custom report generation.
Allow report exports in PDF, CSV, and spreadsheet formats.
Support scheduled report generation.
Maintain a public research transparency archive.
Provide reproducible financial analysis.
Include methodology, source data, and calculation disclosures in reports.

Security, Privacy, and Governance

Encrypt sensitive information in transit and at rest.
Securely store consumer receipts and supporting documentation.
Detect and redact unnecessary personal information.
Implement role-based access controls.
Apply least-privilege access permissions.
Support multi-factor authentication.
Secure API authentication and authorization.
Maintain comprehensive audit logs.
Establish configurable data retention policies.
Provide user-controlled consent management.
Protect private receipt records from unauthorized access.
Support secure backup and recovery.
Maintain document integrity verification.
Implement privacy-preserving data aggregation.
Provide eligible personal data deletion workflows.
Support security incident reporting.
Maintain transparent AI governance policies.
Require human review for consequential determinations.
Prohibit automated legal accusations based solely on AI-generated analysis.
Separate confidential investigative records from public research records.

Optional Plugin Modules

Federal Funding Expansion Plugin

Integrate additional federal agency research databases.
Expand historical federal grant archives.
Track federal research contracts.
Identify interagency research funding relationships.
Integrate state and municipal public research funding.
Track public-private research partnerships.
Analyze combined public funding contributions.

International Research Plugin

Integrate international public research funding databases.
Track foreign university medical discoveries.
Identify international pharmaceutical licensing arrangements.
Track cross-border patent ownership.
Monitor international pharmaceutical commercialization.
Compare international medication pricing.
Analyze global public research accountability.

Clinical Trial Intelligence Plugin

Track clinical trial funding sources.
Identify trial sponsors and participating institutions.
Monitor publicly funded clinical trials.
Track clinical trial milestones and outcomes.
Identify published and unpublished trial results where documented.
Connect clinical trials to originating discoveries.
Track drug development timelines.
Identify relationships between public trial funding and pharmaceutical commercialization.

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Plugin

Identify active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers.
Track contract manufacturing organizations.
Map pharmaceutical distribution networks.
Identify wholesale distributors.
Track manufacturing locations.
Document pharmaceutical supply chain ownership.
Monitor drug shortages.
Identify manufacturing concentration and supply dependencies.

Drug Pricing and Affordability Plugin

Compare medication prices across international markets.
Monitor prescription discount programs.
Track generic medication pricing.
Analyze biosimilar pricing.
Monitor manufacturer price increases.
Calculate medication affordability indicators.
Identify prescription assistance programs.
Compare available lower-cost therapeutic alternatives.

Insurance and Prescription Benefits Plugin

Track insurance-reported prescription expenditures.
Identify pharmacy benefit manager relationships.
Compare insurance formulary coverage.
Track publicly disclosed rebates and discounts.
Analyze copayments and deductibles.
Integrate Medicare and Medicaid prescription expenditure data.
Compare consumer payments with available drug pricing information.
Identify potential pricing disparities between insured and uninsured consumers.

Bayh-Dole and Government Rights Plugin

Track applicable Bayh-Dole Act obligations.
Document government-use rights.
Monitor patent march-in petitions and proceedings.
Track federal licensing obligations.
Integrate university invention disclosures.
Analyze public access and commercialization obligations.
Monitor government rights determinations.
Generate documentation packages for policy and legal review.

Antitrust and Market Competition Plugin

Analyze pharmaceutical market concentration.
Identify potential patent thickets.
Monitor generic entry delays.
Research potentially relevant pay-for-delay arrangements.
Track pharmaceutical acquisitions.
Analyze exclusive licensing concentration.
Compare competitor pricing.
Organize evidence for potential antitrust investigations.

Class Action Case Management Plugin

Provide attorney-controlled investigation workspaces.
Support potential claimant intake.
Screen claimant eligibility using attorney-defined criteria.
Organize prescription receipts and purchase evidence.
Manage supporting legal documentation.
Track case milestones.
Support attorney-reviewed damages calculations.
Monitor settlements and claims administration.
Manage claimant communications.
Provide secure evidence exports.
Maintain confidential case records.

Public Advocacy and Legislative Intelligence Plugin

Monitor federal pharmaceutical accountability legislation.
Monitor state pharmaceutical accountability legislation.
Track public hearings and congressional testimony.
Archive government agency inquiries.
Monitor pharmaceutical policy proposals.
Support public petition management.
Generate legislative research reports.
Compare public policy proposals.
Track government responses.
Support public accountability campaigns.

Whistleblower and Investigative Submission Plugin

Support confidential investigative submissions.
Allow anonymous investigative tips.
Provide supporting document uploads.
Implement source identity protection controls.
Manage investigative leads.
Provide evidence verification workflows.
Restrict access to authorized investigators.
Support secure communications.
Maintain document provenance records.
Track investigative submission histories.

Public Research Funding Return Plugin

Track university pharmaceutical licensing royalties.
Analyze publicly disclosed royalty distributions.
Monitor government recoveries and settlements.
Document taxpayer restitution proposals.
Model public research reinvestment mechanisms.
Track public benefit funds.
Analyze recovery distribution models.
Publish transparent recovery accounting.
Compare alternative public return mechanisms.

Advanced AI Research Assistant Plugin

Provide natural-language research queries.
Discover relationships across research databases.
Analyze multiple documents simultaneously.
Investigate pharmaceutical patent portfolios.
Identify corporate ownership relationships.
Detect financial anomalies.
Identify missing research documentation.
Generate source-supported research summaries.
Prepare investigative reports.
Provide human-reviewed research recommendations.
Maintain traceable AI research histories.

Data Visualization and Geographic Intelligence Plugin

Provide interactive national research maps.
Display university research funding heatmaps.
Map pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
Visualize prescription pricing across geographic regions.
Compare state-level consumer expenditures.
Map federal research investment distribution.
Visualize research commercialization networks.
Display potential restitution opportunities.
Generate geographic accountability reports.

External Researcher and Institutional Portal Plugin

Provide university research institution accounts.
Support researcher profile verification.
Allow institutional corrections to research records.
Accept university licensing disclosures.
Support pharmaceutical company responses.
Provide independent research organization access.
Document institutional responses and rebuttals.
Maintain verified institutional contributions.
Support evidence-based record disputes.

Public Dataset and Open Science Plugin

Publish nonconfidential research datasets.
Provide machine-readable research records.
Support bulk data downloads.
Publish research methodologies.
Maintain dataset version histories.
Provide open research documentation.
Support reproducible analytical models.
Enable third-party research integrations.
Expand public research API access.

Notifications and Monitoring Plugin

Monitor new federal research funding awards.
Alert users to new patent assignments.
Track pharmaceutical licensing changes.
Monitor new FDA medication approvals.
Alert users to significant medication price increases.
Monitor generic medication market entry.
Track new pharmaceutical litigation.
Monitor class action settlements.
Track changes to federal research obligations.
Notify users of updates to investigated medications.
Provide customizable monitoring subscriptions.

Specification Branding License (SBL)

Standard

Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
Copyleft enforced for network deployments
Required attribution:
- Roxanne Ardary
- roxanneardary.com

Optional

Specification Branding License (SBL)
- Attribution-free commercial deployment
- Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
- https://roxanneardary.com/grantchain/

License & Notice Requirements

GrantChain is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

By contributing to any Open Arsenal project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.

Please note the following:

All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
GrantChain specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments. Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update notice.md.
When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.

For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.

Notice – GrantChain

Attribution Requirement: Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.

Contributors

This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.

Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – November 5, 2026
Created the repository for GrantChain. Developed the project concept and specification for an AI-powered public accountability database tracking federally funded medical discoveries, pharmaceutical commercialization, prescription pricing, consumer expenditures, and potential taxpayer restitution opportunities.
Add other contributors here – [Date]
[Describe contribution in one sentence]

License – GrantChain

This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

Key Points:

You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.

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