Staff reports → approvals → meetings → minutes AI-assisted, not AI-dependent Audit-ready transparency

A modern, integrated meeting management system for municipalities.

Create staff reports faster, route approvals automatically, help members ask smarter questions, run cleaner meetings, and publish minutes in minutes—linked to video, timestamps, and attachments.

Staff Report
AI Draft
Auto-fill
Planning / permits
Compare
1,000s of reports
Approval Routing
Smart paths
Dept LeadPending
FinancePending
LegalReview
City ManagerQueued
Executive summary + peer-city comparisons

Approvers see what changed, what’s missing, and how similar cities handled the same topic.

Meeting → Minutes
Fast publish
Agenda item activated 00:12:43
Linked to video + attachments
AI minutes draft ready

Within moments of adjournment: timestamps, motions, votes, and references—ready for clerk review.

One connected workflow

From staff report creation to public record—without broken handoffs

Designed for how municipalities actually work: multiple departments, approval gates, public transparency requirements, and meeting-day precision.

Step 1

Pre-meeting: Staff report creation & AI drafting

Create, reuse, and standardize staff reports. Compare thousands of prior reports (US & Canada) to surface precedent, language patterns, and missing sections.

Step 2

Auto-pull data from planning & development systems

Integrations bring in parcel, permit, applicant, zoning, conditions, fees, timelines, and attachments—reducing copy/paste and errors.

Step 3

Route for approvals through the right channels

Automate routing by department, item type, thresholds, and policy. Track who reviewed what, when, and what changed—end-to-end audit trails.

Step 4

Approver-ready executive summaries

Generate an executive summary, highlight deltas, and benchmark the recommendation against similar cities by size and region.

Step 5

Member review, annotation, markup & AI Q&A

Members annotate materials ahead of time. The AI assistant suggests questions, flags inconsistencies, and supports healthy debate.

Step 6

Meeting day: Clerk as the orchestra maestro

Clerks activate agenda items, manage speakers, conduct votes, and capture actions—while members use reviewed materials to stay aligned and efficient.

Step 7

Minutes drafted within moments of adjournment

Minutes are timestamped and linked to meeting video and attachments. Publish faster with fewer follow-up scrambles.

Step 8

Public portal: transparent, searchable, complete

Citizens review upcoming items, track item history, see review pathways, and view supporting records—building trust and engagement.

Practical AI you can trust

AI that accelerates the process—while keeping people in control

Use AI where it creates leverage: drafting, comparison, summarization, question prompts, and minutes—always with citations back to your documents and precedent.

Cross-city precedent + language comparisons

Compare thousands of staff reports to find patterns, missing elements, and defensible recommendations.

  • Peer-city benchmarking by population, region, and governance model
  • Side-by-side recommendation diffs and change history
  • Reusable templates that standardize quality

Executive summaries for approvers

Approvers get the ‘why’, the risks, and the decision points—fast.

  • Key deltas from last review
  • Policy & ordinance references pulled into context
  • Risk flags with supporting citations

AI minutes with timestamps + video links

Turn meeting audio/video into structured minutes—ready for clerk review quickly.

  • Motions, seconds, votes, and outcomes captured
  • Links to the exact video time + attachments
  • Publish-ready minutes package
Designed for every role

One platform, five perspectives

Each group gets the tools they need—without forcing a one-size-fits-none experience.

Staff & Departments

Draft faster, auto-fill from systems of record, and reuse precedent.

  • Templates + required sections
  • Auto-attach supporting docs
  • Completeness checks

Approvers & Executives

Review with context: what changed, what’s risky, and how peer cities handled similar decisions.

AI executive summary
Peer-city benchmarking
Delta review
Policy citations

Members

Review, annotate, and ask better questions—before the meeting.

  • Annotation + markup
  • AI Q&A assistant
  • Cross-references to attachments

Clerks

Run meetings cleanly: agenda control, voting, and minutes.

  • Agenda orchestration
  • Vote capture
  • Minutes + timestamps
Citizen-first portal Transparent history Searchable records

Transparency that builds trust.

Give citizens a public portal that tells the complete story of each agenda item—when it was created, who reviewed it, which committees touched it, what changed, and the final vote.

✓ Upcoming agenda
Clear, consistent, and easy to find.
✓ Item history
Clear, consistent, and easy to find.
✓ Committee trail
Clear, consistent, and easy to find.
✓ Video-linked minutes
Clear, consistent, and easy to find.
Public Portal Preview
Item history • committee trail • video-linked minutes
Live
Conditional Use Permit – 123 Main St
Planning Commission → City Council
Upcoming
History
Materials
Video
Downtown Streetscape Change Order
Public Works → Finance → Council
In Review
History
Materials
Video
Annual Budget Adoption
Department Heads → Manager → Council
Published
History
Materials
Video
AI-assisted staff reports Minutes in minutes Better public engagement

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Send a note and we’ll follow up from info@govhq.

What you’ll see
  • Staff report authoring with completeness checks
  • Integrations pulling planning/permit data
  • Approval routing with executive summaries + peer-city comparisons
  • Member annotations + AI Q&A for agenda materials
  • Clerk controls, voting, and minutes
  • Public portal with item history and video links
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