Your town’s meetings and records — finally easy to follow.
OpenDocket turns the agendas, minutes, and meeting recordings your town already publishes into a searchable, plain-English record — so you can actually keep up, without digging through PDFs or sitting through a three-hour meeting.
We built this after getting tired of not knowing what our own town was doing.
How it works
From municipal paper trail to public record, automatically.
Read
OpenDocket reads what your town already posts publicly — agendas, minutes, resolutions, and meeting video — straight from your town’s own website and channels. No integration, no software to install, nothing for staff to set up or change.
Understand
AI reads every document and recording, extracting decisions, votes, dates, and topics — cross-referenced against the official record, the way a very thorough clerk would with unlimited time.
Publish
Residents get a searchable, plain-language record they can ask questions of directly, with a live status on every agenda item — passed, pending, tabled, or failed.
Product
Everything you need to actually know what’s going on.
Meeting transcript summaries
Hours of recorded council, board, and commission meetings become concise, accurate summaries tied to each agenda item — not a generic transcript dump.
Board sentiment tracking
Every theme discussed at a meeting — zoning, budget, parks — scored and tracked over time, so residents can see where things are trending before the next vote.
Searchable public archive
Every agenda, minutes packet, and resolution ever published, indexed and searchable by plain-language question instead of file name and date.
FOIL request assistance
Point a records request at the right document immediately, matched against your town’s own filings — so residents get an answer faster instead of waiting on a request to work its way through the queue.
“Ask” — plain-English answers
Residents ask a question in their own words and get an answer sourced directly from official records, with a link back to the source document.
Docket status tracking
Every agenda item tracked from introduction to vote — passed, pending, tabled, or failed — so residents can see exactly where something stands without waiting for the next meeting.
Budget impact, translated
A tax-levy vote becomes "here's what this means for your bill" — a plain-language line pulled straight from the adopted budget, not a spreadsheet.
Built-in accuracy disclosures
Every AI-generated answer cites its source. Low-confidence answers say so, and residents can flag anything that looks wrong.
What residents see
Board meetings and budgets — actually explained.
OpenDocket turns what your town already publishes into things a resident can actually use — pulled straight from the meeting record and budget documents, not manually re-typed by staff.
Town tax levy, translated
A levy vote becomes "this means your taxes go from $3.4K to $3.6K" — not a spreadsheet.
Board sentiment, by topic
Every theme discussed at a meeting — zoning, budget, parks — tracked for tone over time.
Where the budget goes
Revenue in, spending out, broken down by department, at a glance.
Permit timelines
How long an application actually takes to become a certificate of occupancy.
For municipalities
Your residents are already asking. Here’s how to say yes.
OpenDocket runs on what your town already publishes — nothing changes about how your board or staff operate. Partnering with us funds the accuracy review and upkeep that keep it reliable, and puts your town formally behind it.
- Nothing to install, nothing to approve
- OpenDocket already runs on what your town publishes today. There’s no software to adopt and no workflow for staff to change — with or without a formal relationship.
- A resource that’s actually maintained
- A paid partnership funds the accuracy review, hosting, and upkeep that keep it reliable — and puts your town’s name formally behind something residents already trust.
- No procurement, no IT project
- OpenDocket isn’t a records-management system to migrate to. It reads what you already publish and runs alongside whatever you use today.
- Your residents are already asking
- Interest in OpenDocket usually starts with residents, not officials. Saying yes is easier than explaining why not — and costs your staff nothing to find out.
For residents
Your town’s business, in plain English.
OpenDocket’s first deployment, OpenNorthCastle, gives residents of North Castle, NY a place to search agendas, ask questions, and actually keep up with what’s on the docket — built independently, for public benefit.
It’s built using AI, and accuracy isn’t guaranteed — every answer links back to its source document, and we want to hear if something looks wrong.
Get started
Bring OpenDocket to your town.
Whether you’re a resident who wants this for where you live, or an official ready to talk about setting it up — tell us who you are and we’ll follow up.