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New York City's public records, answerable by your AI.

Scattered public records, finally connected — from buildings and businesses to nonprofits and whole blocks. Ask a question, get a straight answer, and see the official record behind every fact. Plug it into ChatGPT or Claude, or just use it yourself.

It's all public. None of it's connected.

Property deeds in one system. Restaurant grades in another. Liquor licenses at the state. Building violations, campaign money, 311 complaints, council spending — each in its own portal, under its own names, in its own format, none of them talking to each other. One honest question means digging through ten places by hand. Your AI can't just look it up, because there's no single place to look.

So we connected it.

Akil pulls every one of those records into a single connected layer — each tied to the same address, business, organization, or block. Ask once, and you get the whole picture, every line traceable to its official source. That connected layer is Akil. The two apps below are ours — we built them on it to show what it makes possible. Your AI connects to the exact same records.

Look it up

Any address, business, organization, or neighborhood.

Akil · lookupChrysler Building
Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Ave · BBL 1012970023
TypeOffice tower · 20+ stories
City tax assessment (FY27)$168.9M
Owner of record405 Lexington, L.L.C.
Tax exemptionFull value · since 1991
LandmarkIndividual + interior
DOB violations456 on record · 2 active
Also on record: zoning · deeds · certificate of occupancy · permits
from NYC Finance, City Planning, Buildings & Landmarkssnapshot · June 2026 →
Review a property or place →

On the map

A radius, a district, a corridor, or any area you draw — see what's inside.

Akil · mapTimes Square · within 500 ft
Times Square
Everything within a block
311 service requests4,897
Restaurant inspections351
Active liquor licenses60
Licensed cannabis shops0
DOB permits on file488
Rodent inspections25
Council District 4 · Community Board 5 · 18th Precinct (Midtown North)
from NYC + NYS open datasnapshot · June 2026 →
Open the map →

We built these two. Your AI — or your own app — can build on the same layer.

230record tools
162official sources
155M+public records
6languages

162 official sources. A few you'll recognize.

Akil pulls from records across New York City, New York State, and federal data — and your AI can search every one.

Property & buildings

  • ACRISdeeds & mortgages
  • ZoLazoning
  • PLUTOtax lots
  • DOBbuilding permits
  • HPDhousing violations
  • DOFproperty taxes

Business & licenses

  • DOHMHrestaurant grades
  • DCWPbusiness licenses
  • SLAliquor licensesNY State
  • OCMcannabis licensesNY State

Money & influence

  • Checkbook NYCcity spending
  • Campaign Finance BoardNYC contributions
  • City Councilfunding & legislation
  • IRS 990nonprofit finances

Your neighborhood

  • 311complaints
  • NYPDcrime & crashes
  • OATHviolations & hearings

+ 140 more across NYC, New York State, and federal records.

From a question to an answer.

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Start anywhere

An address, a business, an organization, a neighborhood — anything in New York City.

02

Akil connects it

Every public record tied to it, pulled together across the city's scattered files.

03

Get a straight answer

What's there, what's missing, and where each fact came from — for you or your AI.

Couldn't your AI just read the data itself?

For one file, sure. But real questions don't stay in one file. “What's the story with 405 Lexington?” starts as an address, turns into a tax lot, hangs on a building number, sits inside a council district, and pulls from half a dozen agencies — each calling the same thing by a different name. Point a raw AI at the open data and it dead-ends, or worse, hands you a confident wrong answer. Akil already did the connecting — it keeps the address, the lot, the district, and the owner straight across every record. And when something genuinely isn't there, it says so, instead of guessing.

Give your AI a New York City expert.

Paste one link into ChatGPT, Claude, or your own app, and your AI can pull from all 230 of Akil's New York record tools — and show its sources every time. Built on MCP, the open standard for connecting AI to live data.

The linkhttps://mcp.askakil.ai/mcp

One link to connect

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP-compatible app.

Answers with receipts

Every result links back to the official record.

Clean data

Tables, maps, and charts your app can use directly.

It never mixes things up

Tracks the exact building, business, or district you meant.

Every answer shows its receipts.

Akil never makes things up. Every fact comes from an official public record, and you can click straight through to check it. When the records are incomplete — or a name might be a mismatch — Akil says so instead of guessing.

Sources you can check

Every number links to the city, state, or federal record behind it.

Honest about limits

If a search is capped or comes back empty, it says so — “nothing found” never means “nothing exists.”

No mixed-up identities

A name stays a maybe until an official ID confirms it's the right one.

Those “from…” links on the examples above? Click any of them. That's the whole idea — nothing to take on faith. How Akil stays honest →

New York City's public records, finally answerable — by you, or your AI.