Civic Intelligence

Search every word your city said.

Public meetings are recorded. But the knowledge inside them is locked in hours of video nobody will rewatch. CivicFindery transcribes, indexes, and connects every discussion, so you can search your city's decisions like you search the web.

Starting with: Nashville Planning Commission

Public data that nobody can access isn't public at all.

90K+

Local governing bodies in the US hold public meetings

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Searchable transcripts available for Nashville Planning Commission

4hr+

Average meeting length. Nobody rewatches. Insights die on YouTube.

What CivicFindery does

Turn hours of public meeting recordings into searchable, connected civic intelligence.

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Full-text search

Ask questions in natural language. Find every time a topic, address, or policy was discussed across all meetings.

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Longitudinal trends

Connect discussions across months and years. See how zoning debates evolved, who spoke for and against, and what changed.

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Speaker identification

Know who said what. Track commissioners, developers, and community voices across every public hearing.

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AI-powered analysis

Sentiment detection, topic extraction, meeting summaries, and automatic minute generation from raw recordings.

How it works

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Ingest recordings

CivicFindery pulls meeting recordings from YouTube automatically after each session.

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Transcribe and structure

AI transcription with speaker diarization, timestamp alignment, and topic segmentation.

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Connect and index

Discussions are linked across meetings. Entities, addresses, and policies are tagged for retrieval.

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Search and discover

Ask anything. "What was said about the Wedgewood-Houston rezoning?" and get timestamped answers.

Democracy works better when everyone can hear what was said.

CivicFindery is building the search engine for local government. Starting with Nashville, expanding everywhere public meetings happen and nobody has time to watch.