Public Budget AI #5: 6-Sector Audit Suite & Year-End Dumps
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📌 Key Takeaways
- Divide & Conquer Full Suite: Filtering 85% routine consumables across 4 million public contracts, we expanded our targeted surveillance pipeline to encompass 6 high-risk sectors (Sectors 1–6) covering structural public corruption corridors.
- Unmasking 2 Elusive Blind Spots:
- Sector 5 ($40K Preferential Smurfing): Exploiting statutory affirmative action ceilings ($40,000 / 50M KRW) by clustering split contracts at $39,000 (99.0% threshold proximity), catching $180,000 in evasive awards.
- Sector 6 (December Fiscal Dumping): Rushing $120,000 across 3 consecutive sole-source awards within 4 days in late December to avoid budgetary clawbacks.
- 2 Preempted Architectural Hurdles:
- Built a Sweet Spot (96–99.8%) Proximity Engine distinguishing genuine social enterprise support from artificial splitting.
- Designed Temporal Density & Task Feasibility Analyzers distinguishing standard year-end settlements from rushed dumping where completion is physically impossible.
- 3 Real Production Bugs Resolved: Multi-sector classification collisions resolved via priority weighting, VAT gross/net confusion fixed by reverse-calculating supply costs, and fiscal year carry-over date shifts resolved.

