Build American AI → SM4
Reported intermediary pathway
Reported before 2026-09-05
Secondary report describes creator solicitation route; donor-to-creator allocation untraced.
Reported broker between an advocacy organisation and a prospective creator
SM4
SM4 is the intermediary named in reporting on a creator pitch associated with Build American AI. Its role in the retained evidence is solicitation: approaching a prospective creator with a proposed paid message. The record does not establish completed production or payment.
The $5,000 figure is an offer
WIRED reports a $5,000 pitch through the Build American AI–SM4 pathway. No acquired agreement, invoice, payment record or published deliverable completes that route. The separate campaign-finance records naming Lantern Production Consultants do not identify SM4 as a subcontractor and cannot be used to assign those filed amounts to this creator prospect.
What the records show
SM4 → Creator prospect
Reported $5,000 pitch
Reported before 2026-09-05
Offer only; completed payment unobserved.
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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Reported before 2026-09-05
Reported by the cited source
Secondary report describes creator solicitation route; donor-to-creator allocation untraced.
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SM4 → Reported $5,000 pitch → Creator prospect
Reported before 2026-09-05
Reported by the cited source
Offer only; completed payment unobserved.