Role at Civil Services
Benyamin Mannan founded this independent rebuild of civil.services and is accountable for its content. The work covers the ingestion scripts that import congressional records, the validation checks that must pass before any update is published, and the rules that decide which sources a record may rely on.
Editorial standards
- Every published record links to its public source, with the date it was published or accessed.
- Religious affiliation and heritage are only shown when a named source reports them for that individual. They are never inferred from names, photographs or party.
- Missing information is shown as unknown, never guessed.
- A failed data refresh leaves the previous verified release online instead of publishing partial data.
- Corrections are reviewed against official records or the member's own public statements before they are applied.
The full rules are described in the data methodology.
Background
Benyamin Mannan is a co-founder and developer at Nordic Business Software (NBS), a web agency. The work there centres on system architecture, databases, deployment and monitoring. Civil Services applies the same discipline: automated checks, reproducible builds, and a clear trail from each figure back to its source.
Independence
Civil Services is not affiliated with any political party, campaign, congressional office or government agency, and it is not the former Civil Service USA Corp nonprofit. It does not endorse or score candidates.