Interventions
Things a person can actually do with this map. Concrete, not rhetorical.
Verify it yourself
Every claim links its source. The strongest are public records you can open directly:
- Domain registry — CISA dotgov-data
- Certificates — crt.sh
- Federal spending — USASpending
- Cloud authorizations — FedRAMP Marketplace
File a FOIA — strategically
The catch: the National Design Studio sits inside the Executive Office of the President, and EOP units whose sole function is to “advise and assist” the President are not “agencies” under FOIA (CREW v. Office of Administration, 2008). A request to NDS directly may be refused on agency-status grounds. Two ways through:
Path A — Direct (contested, but worth filing). A 2025 ruling found DOGE/USDS likely subject to FOIA because it wields “substantial independent authority” beyond advising the President (FedScoop); the Supreme Court later paused enforcement (CBS). NDS — which builds and runs real .gov infrastructure across agencies — has an arguably stronger case. Filing forces the agency-status question open.
Path B — The touched agencies (high-yield). The records of NDS’s reach live in the normal FOIA agencies it built for. Ask them. Each target is damning whether records exist or not (a document proves formal reach; a “no responsive records” proves NDS built on agency infrastructure with no authorization):
- U.S. African Development Foundation — records re the
@ndstudio.govsecurity contact → akash-bobba-usadf-contact - State Department — agreements/comms re passports.gov → passports-eop-owned
- Election Assistance Commission — records re the vote.gov replacement → nds-vote-gov-vs-doj
- DOE / OPM / GSA / Treasury — interagency agreements + detailee paperwork → hogan-login-gov-expansion
- Office of Government Ethics — Joe Gebbia’s Form 278e + ethics waiver → gebbia-tesla-coi
- Host agencies / OMB — PIAs & SORNs, and the PostHog procurement trail → nds-zero-pias-sorns, posthog-no-contracts-no-fedramp
- NARA — any records schedule filed for NDS (tests the Presidential-records-sealing dodge)
Scope principle: narrow + specific + agency-targeted beats “all NDS records” (denied as overbroad, or hits the EOP wall). Workhorse template: “all interagency agreements, MOUs, and communications between [Agency] and the National Design Studio regarding [domain], Jan 2025–present.” Always invoke the fee waiver (5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(A)(iii), public interest) and expedited processing (§ 552(a)(6)(E), urgency to inform).
→ Open the FOIA request generator — pick a target, fill three fields, and it drafts a properly-scoped, correctly-formatted request you review and submit yourself via FOIA.gov. It runs entirely in your browser: nothing you type is sent anywhere, and it never files on your behalf.
Archive before it changes
This infrastructure moves within days and pages get edited — snapshot before you cite:
- New subdomains and certs appear fast — see passports.gov
- The customer-listing page in posthog-names-usg-customer could be edited or removed
- Save any source to the Wayback Machine (or “save page now”) before relying on it
Mirror this map
This is a plain-text, no-build, CC0 vault — no single host should be a chokepoint. Clone it and host your own copy. To add anything, append a note in the same form as the others.
Sovereign communication
Tools that resist the kind of instrumentation mapped here:
- Reticulum — a networking stack with no central authority, no DNS, encryption by default