Put your own record to work.
Your minutes, contracts, and resolutions already hold the answers. We organize them into something you can search, track, and act on, starting with the work that pays for itself.
Found-money retrospective
We comb your last three months of contracts and approvals for duplicate payments, unsigned agreements, and spending that never closed; money you can recover or stop paying.
Contract & commitments tracker
A living ledger of what was approved, what was signed, and what was actually delivered, so nothing quietly slips between a vote and a vendor.
Vendor & district comparison
See how your vendors, costs, and documentation stack up against peer districts and your own prior years, instead of judging each contract in isolation.
Audit-prep gap report
Walk into your audit already knowing where the records are thin: the same gaps an auditor would flag, found and listed before they do.
Every figure we report is re-derivable from the source. Findings are cross-referenced against independent audits and your own published records, and each one links back to the exact document it came from, so anyone on your staff, or your auditor, can check the math. No black box, no “trust the software.”
Proof, in the field.
Two live examples where we read a real government's public record and turned it into something officials and residents can use; every number re-derivable from the original documents.
A $476M contract documentation gap, found in the public record.
We reviewed every spending commitment the Jersey City Board of Education approved: 484 commitments worth $514.9M. Only 15 (3.1%) had a signed contract on file, covering just 7.6% of approved dollars. We cross-referenced the gaps against two consecutive independent audits and the district's own procurement portal, so staff can close them before the next audit does.
Organizing the public record for NYC charter reform.
A public-record resource for the NYC Commission on Government Efficiency's charter review. We organize the commissioners, resolutions, hearing schedule, and themes raised across public meetings into one place residents and staff can follow, updated after each of the 10 borough hearings, with the November 3, 2026 ballot as the reference point. Built entirely from public minutes.
More examples coming as we take on new records, including a national parliament and additional U.S. local governments.
Writing on institutional memory.
Essays, field reports, and analyses on how institutions keep, and lose, their own knowledge. Plus a deeper research archive from years of work across complex institutions.
What is Proposal Lifecycle Metadata?
Part 2 of the GMS Essay Series. Introduces Proposal Lifecycle Metadata (PLM): a structured system for embedding contextual information across a proposal's full lifecycle, turning isolated governance decisions into a connected body of institutional knowledge.
What is the Governance Memory System?
Part 1 of the GMS Essay Series. On the structural inability of institutions to learn from their own decisions, and the five-layer framework designed to close the feedback loop between decisions and their consequences.
The Governance Memory System
The peer-reviewed basis for the method now applied to government records. A five-layer framework for institutional memory, helping organizations remember their own decisions and learn from outcomes.
GMS Research Deck
Research presentation covering the five-layer GMS architecture, early case studies, competitive positioning, and the roadmap into government.
Institutional memory, brought to government.
OCC Research is led by Othman Gbadamassi. For years, across very different organizations, Othman kept ending up in the same role: the person who remembered why a decision was made, what had been tried before, and what was promised but never delivered. OCC turns that instinct into something repeatable: institutional memory for governments and the other complex institutions that need it most.
The approach is simple: take a government's own public record, its minutes, contracts, and resolutions, and organize it into something staff can search, track, and act on. The result surfaces wasted spending, unsigned contracts, and commitments that were promised but never delivered, with each finding linked back to the document it came from.
Before this, Othman spent four years as the institutional memory across more than fifteen fast-moving, high-stakes organizations, with earlier roles in finance, defense, enterprise consulting, and big tech. That range is the point: the method was hardened in some of the most contested decision-making environments around, and it carries over cleanly to city halls, school boards, and town councils.
Start with a free retrospective.
We read your last three months of records and show you what we find, at no cost.
Nothing to install and no commitment. You get a short, plain-English summary of what looks recoverable, what is undocumented, and what to clean up before your next audit, with each item linked to the record it came from.
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