Civic data
Wooden Nutmeg
Connecticut town budgets, traced to the primary sources. It started as eighteen years of Colchester budgets and now covers all 169 CT towns. Drafted with Claude, spot-checked against the source PDFs (yes, really).
What it is
A town budget is public, but it arrives as a few hundred pages of line items. Wooden Nutmeg takes what a Connecticut town publishes and puts it on charts a resident can read in a few minutes.
Colchester is the deep dive: every adopted budget book from FY 2007-08 to FY 2024-25, 132 charts, and about 3,100 documents catalogued. Every number traces to a primary source. When a finding flips under a different deflator or set of peer towns, the alternative sits right next to it.
A look around
