HackTM 2026 · Best Startup · Best Impact

Follow the money.
Find the pattern.

Romanian public-procurement intelligence — links contracts, donations, court files, tax debt, and the people behind them.

RO public procurement €35B / yr
Public sources unified 20+
Single-bidder contracts ~30%

Kilometru Zero · Timișoara · May 11–16, 2026

The problem

Existing tools score contracts in isolation.
Nobody connects the network around them.

Today's tools look at one contract at a time. Nobody connects the people around it: who owns the winning company, who donated to which party that year, who sits on which public board, who has an open court case, who already owes the state unpaid tax. The data exists — it just lives in twenty different places that don't talk to each other.

  • Ghost Company set up two weeks before winning a €500K public contract.
  • Cartel One person quietly runs eight companies that bid against the same town hall — never against each other.
  • Donor → state 255 party donors have collected €34.1B in public contracts.
  • Split Four "office furniture" orders in a month, each just under the tender threshold. €516K, zero competition.

The data is legally free. The ergonomics aren't. The human network behind public spending stays invisible.

The product

Twenty public sources. One map.
An investigation workflow, not a dashboard.

  1. 01 Type a name — a company, a politician, a town hall, or a question.
  2. 02 AI understands what you meant and finds the right record.
  3. 03 See everyone connected: contracts, donations, court files, tax debt, board seats.
  4. 04 Every claim shows its source. Leads, never accusations.
Collect Twenty public registries, fetched fresh
Connect Match the same person and company across all of them
Understand AI reads messy Romanian text and turns it into clean facts
Flag Fourteen red-flag checks run automatically
Show A simple web app anyone can search
What we found

Real leads, real money, real people.

Donor → contractor €34.1B 255 party-donor CUIs with SEAP awards
Insolvent & winning €3.8B 244 firms awarded after faliment opened
Court rows indexed 1.19M portal.just.ro across 35K officials, 6.7K PEPs
ANI declarations 16.6K OCR'd wealth & interests, ~$8 spend
Known cases already in the graph
  • Ghost firm, 121 contracts
  • Same CUI, two names, €161M won
  • Donor → debtor → €412M contractor
  • Phoenix: €35.8M after collapse
  • Parte civilă in EU-funds fraud
Team

One builder. Leads, not allegations.

Timo Bejan
Solution architect · serial CTO

Architecting AI-native platforms at 42× speed.

Free. Forever. For everyone.

Public data should not be a SaaS product. No paywall, no API key, no login — where the incumbents charge hundreds of lei a month for ANAF, ONRC and MO data, we publish it open.

kilometru-zero.ro · HackTM 2026 · Timișoara

Fin · lesson learned

AI in the right hands is an unimaginable force multiplier.

The non-believers will starve.

— Timo Bejan · Kilometru Zero · HackTM 2026