Fund the Auditor is a project of Osiris Infrastructure. It documents a litigation finance model for First Amendment auditors and makes that model available to anyone who wants to build it in their city.
The premise of Fund the Auditor is that First Amendment auditors are producing something genuinely valuable — documented evidence of civil rights violations in public spaces — and that the infrastructure for converting that documentation into funded legal accountability does not yet exist at the scale required.
The auditors exist. The constitutional violations are documented. The legal mechanism — Section 1983 civil rights claims under the performance-only litigation finance structure — is available. What is missing is the financial architecture that connects those three things and makes funded accountability a repeatable process rather than a one-off outcome.
This site documents the model this site is built around and makes the architecture available for replication. It is not a company. It is not a foundation. It is documentation of a mechanism that works, published so that the mechanism can spread.
The model is open source because the goal is saturation — a funded accountability fund in every jurisdiction — not market share for a single organization. Why the model is open source is explained in detail on the site. The short version: the problem is geographic. The solution has to match.
Fund the Auditor is a project of Osiris Infrastructure — a small organization focused on building documentation systems, accountability infrastructure, and replicable civic models. Osiris is the connective tissue behind the three-property civil rights ecosystem this site is part of.
Osiris Infrastructure is not a law firm, not a fund manager, not a nonprofit, and not a government entity. It is the organization that built and maintains Fund the Auditor, Be My Own Attorney, and the accountability infrastructure connecting them. It does not manage funds on behalf of investors, does not provide legal representation, and does not serve as a fund operator for funds built on the FTA model. Those roles belong to the participants in individual city-level funds.
The choice to operate transparently about what Osiris is — and what it isn't — is deliberate. The credibility of the model depends on the credibility of the people documenting it. The model works or doesn't work based on its internal structure and the documented evidence for its mechanism, not based on the scale or prestige of the organization publishing it.
Fund the Auditor is one property in a three-part civil rights accountability ecosystem built by Osiris Infrastructure. The properties are designed to address different phases of the civil rights accountability problem — from documenting rights in real time, to funding the legal consequence, to maintaining the public accountability record.
Documents the performance-only litigation finance model for First Amendment auditors. Provides the architecture for fund operators, the case for auditor participation, the investor structure, and the open-source invitation to replicate the model in every city.
Preparation tools for First Amendment auditors and pro se litigants — real-time guidance for public encounters, preparation tools for anyone who faces charges after documenting civil rights violations, and legal research resources built for people representing themselves. The FTA model funds cases; BMOA prepares the people in them.
A public accountability database tracking documented civil rights violations, officer conduct records, department settlement patterns, and jurisdiction-level accountability data. The public record that the FTA model generates feeds into CCW. Status and availability TBD.
The three properties are designed to be read together. Fund the Auditor provides the financial mechanism. Be My Own Attorney provides the preparation tools. The accountability database provides the public record. None of the three requires the other two to function — but together they form an institutional-grade civil rights accountability infrastructure that no single property could provide alone.
The model is documented. The architecture is open. The only thing that builds a fund in your city is someone in your city who decides to build it.