About
Akil exists to make public records usable in real work.
Public records are the connective tissue of a city. They show ownership, enforcement, permits, funding, procurement, legislation, licenses, neighborhood conditions, and civic decisions. Akil turns those records into a source-aware layer that people and agents can actually use.
Why New York
New York is the right first civic-data environment.
New York City is dense, complex, and record-rich. What works here must handle fragmented agencies, changing source formats, overlapping geographies, messy names, old records, and high-stakes interpretation.
Complex public data
Property, zoning, permits, violations, licenses, procurement, budgets, lobbying, legislation, and neighborhood records live across many systems.
Real operational need
Organizations already spend time copying from portals, reconciling records, explaining context, and turning public data into decisions.
Expansion discipline
Akil starts with New York City Edition. The platform patterns can generalize, but the public claim remains NYC-first unless a page says otherwise.
Founder
Built by an operator, not a demo lab.
Jie Kang
Jie Kang is the founder of Akil Ventures, Inc. His background spans information systems and business technology, Wall Street trading, scaled operations, social enterprise, nonprofit systems, and AI-native civic data products.
Operating lens
Akil is built from the belief that intelligence tools only matter when they make work clearer: fewer manual lookups, better provenance, sharper caveats, and workflows that survive contact with messy records.
Company Focus
Akil Ventures, Inc. builds public-record infrastructure.
The company operates across product, platform, developer, partner, and mission workflows, all grounded in the same source-aware civic data layer.