Keep an Eye on Policy Developments in Communities Near and Far

Curate automatically extracts discussions related to more than 400 topics from the millions of public documents posted each week by more than 12,000 cities, counties, and school boards across all 50 states. With the help of artificial intelligence, Curate finds the signal in the noise to keep you informed about the latest developments on controversial issues in local government.

Track emerging local issues at scale and stay on top of the latest discussions with a filterable feed and custom email alerts, or conduct research on your own time.

Civic Intelligence That Drives Action

Get access to the most comprehensive database of city and county meeting minutes and agendas in the country.

Write Better Policy

Accurate insights are the key to drafting a winning policy. Conduct local policy research in a fraction of the time with Curate’s comprehensive and up-to-date database of ongoing policy discussions in more than 12,000 local decision-making bodies.

Maximize Your Policy Adoption Rate

Pursuing nonstarter policies wastes resources, relationships, and harms your reputation. Curate lets you easily find and read meeting minutes of other local governments addressing your key issues. Use these insights to learn from the mistakes of other communities and build on their successes by monitoring their discussions in real-time.

Lead the Way in Effective Governance

Don’t get caught off-guard in a changing landscape. Within Curate you can easily identify challenges other local governments are facing before they affect your community, and lead the way in protecting your constituents.

Predict the Public Response to New Proposals

Accurately predicting how the public will react to a proposal can save communities thousands of hours of productivity. Curate’s platform takes you directly to the meeting minutes of communities that have considered or are currently pursuing policies you’re researching. Transcripts from public hearings will show you how controversial an issue was and what common objections were, as well as who your potential allies might be.

Identify and Connect with Potential Collaborators

When neighboring communities are tackling issues that affect your constituents, Curate identifies the key stakeholders to approach. With an index of more than 112,000 local government functionaries, the name, title, and contact info for nearly any city or county official is at your fingertips.

Use Curate to see how other communities are dealing with emerging challenges such as: