Civic intelligence

What is civic intelligence?

Civic intelligence is the practice of automatically monitoring public government meetings — city councils, county boards, school boards, commissions, and international bodies such as the UN General Assembly — and turning them into searchable summaries, agenda alerts, vote tracking, and reports. It replaces manually watching hours of meeting video or reading thousand-page agendas, so people and organizations can know what government decided and act before the next vote.

Local government makes thousands of decisions every week — on zoning, budgets, ordinances, permits, and appointments — in public meetings that run for hours and that almost no one has time to watch. Civic intelligence uses AI to monitor those meetings automatically, so the public record becomes something people can actually use: searchable, summarized, and delivered the moment it matters.

How civic intelligence works

Monitor every meeting

AI watches and transcribes every public meeting — city councils, county boards, school boards, commissions, and international bodies — 24/7, and reads the agendas before they happen.

Summarize and structure

Each meeting becomes a searchable summary with the key votes, decisions, quotes, and what-it-means — plus full, speaker-labeled transcripts with jump-to-video timestamps.

Alert and act

The moment a tracked issue, keyword, person, or organization hits an agenda, you get an instant alert — with the time to prepare, mobilize, or brief leadership before the vote.

Civic intelligence vs. taking notes manually

Taking notes manually

Watch hours of meeting video to find one decision
Find out after the vote, when it's already public comment day
One person can only track a handful of public bodies
Decisions buried across dozens of portals and PDFs
Coverage stops where staff and budget run out