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See what your city council actually decided

Plain-language summaries of local government meetings — what was discussed, what was decided, and how each council member voted. No jargon, no digging through hours of video. Pick a city below to get started.

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Counciloris gives you easy access to local government meeting records, with the real data straight from the source — not secondhand coverage. Read a short summary of any meeting, see how council members voted, or dig into the full transcript and video for proof of exactly what was said.

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Meet the Counciloris

The Counciloris is hard at work — watching every city council meeting so you don't have to. Each night it transcribes the recordings, picks out what was decided, and writes a plain-language summary you can actually read. It moves slowly and carefully, because getting the details right matters.

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Our AI strategy

We try to keep this project's planetary footprint small. Our repeatable processes — transcription, summarization, and the rest of the data pipeline — run on a MacBook Air, from a room powered by solar panels at our house. We do use cloud LLMs for building and maintaining the code itself. We're still early on this and would love to keep improving our sustainability practice over time.