Build American AI → SM4
Reported intermediary pathway
Reported before 2026-09-05
Secondary report describes creator solicitation route; donor-to-creator allocation untraced.
Reported advocacy intermediary in a creator-pitch pathway
Build American AI
Build American AI is an organisation described in WIRED reporting as affiliated with Leading the Future and connected to a creator-solicitation route through SM4. The retained record for this subject rests on that reported relationship rather than an acquired contract or a traceable allocation from named FEC donations.
What the reported pitch establishes
WIRED describes a solicitation pathway involving Build American AI, SM4 and an offered creator fee. The retained evidence supports reporting on the offer and affiliation, but not a completed creator payment, the exact contracting legal entity or a donor-to-creator allocation. The subsequent discovery of Think Big's vendor filings adds a separate documented spending mechanism without resolving this offer-only branch.
What the records show
Leading the Future → Build American AI
Reported affiliation
Reported before 2026-09-05
Secondary reporting; no transfer of named FEC donations traced to Build American AI.
From the investigation
What the operation was trying to do
The strongest new result therefore concerns purchased electoral capacity and service types. It does not close the retained Build American AI → SM4 → creator-prospect offer-only route. Public First Action remains a different entity with a different funding instrument; no inference here moves Anthropic's restricted gift into election spending.
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2 relationshipsLeading the Future → Reported affiliation → Build American AI
Reported before 2026-09-05
Reported by the cited source
Secondary reporting; no transfer of named FEC donations traced to Build American AI.
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Build American AI → Reported intermediary pathway → SM4
Reported before 2026-09-05
Reported by the cited source
Secondary report describes creator solicitation route; donor-to-creator allocation untraced.