Read Your Recorder
Find your city, county, or school district and open its daily recorder — every meeting summarized in plain English.
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Local government, in plain sight
What's happening in your city?
CivicLens reads every meeting agenda, packet, and transcript — and turns them into plain-English stories. Pick where to start.
See What's Happening
Search across every entity at once. Ask about zoning, budgets, road projects, school board votes — anything in the record.
Free Business Listing
Be the local option in your home city. Tell us where your business is and we'll list you alongside the local news — free.
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Free. Starting in Minnesota.
The problem
Two civic gaps, hiding in plain sight.
For residents
Most decisions that shape your block — zoning, school budgets, road projects, water rates — live inside 200-page PDFs almost no one reads. Local newsrooms have shrunk. The record is public, but it isn't accessible.
For local businesses
The neighbors most likely to walk through your door can't find you next to the national chains online. Generic ad platforms cost a lot to reach the few people who actually live nearby.
What CivicLens does
Public records, turned into a daily read.
Reads every meeting
Agendas, packets, minutes, and transcripts ingested across cities, counties, school boards, and state agencies.
Writes the story
AI turns each agenda topic into a short, neutral, sourced summary — with links back to the original document.
Surfaces what matters
Natural-language search across everything. Filter by entity, topic, or date. No FOIA request required.
CitiesCountiesSchool BoardsState AgenciesStarting in Minnesota
For local businesses
Be the local option, locally.
When residents read what's happening in their city, your listing is right there beside the story. Free in your home city. Subscribe to extend your reach into neighboring cities, your county, or the whole region.
Home city
FreeList in the recorder for the city your business calls home. Always free.
County reach
SubscribeAppear alongside neighboring cities and county-level coverage.
Regional reach
SubscribeStatewide topics and state-agency coverage for service businesses.
How it works
Three steps to your civic feed.
01
Pick an entity
Choose a city, county, school district, or state agency that affects you.
02
Search or browse
Ask a natural question, or scroll the chronological feed of recent meetings.
03
Read the story
See a short summary with citations — or open the original document with one click.
Start with your city.
It's public. It's yours. We just made it readable.