Frequently Asked Questions

Our mission is to ensure no seats go unchallenged. This may look good not the top but it's a very hard shell to crack. By engaging and encouraging the community members who speak and getting responses from elected officials we are creating a feedback loop to improve community engagement which we believe seeds future leaders.

Our reporters are based out of the community they serve. Essentially making them accessible and are mentored to be bold and only publish after giving both sides to give their opinion.

We started as a place to find community voices, but when we saw the need to engage the community members through journalism we started taking their inputs and questioning the authorities which we believe is missing at the local level.

Without transparency, communities either withdraw from participation or become reactive. A lack of accessible information fosters disengagement or distrust.

Examples include ignoring public concerns, restricting who can speak (e.g., in-person only), or giving disproportionate speaking time—favoring businesses over residents. Some councils even use procedural rules to stifle rebuttals in public hearings.

On January 6, 2025, the San Ramon council dismissed the choice of 11,000 voters by refusing to even interview a candidate for a vacant council seat. Hundreds of residents sent public comments asking to appoint the runner-up from the mayoral election, but were ignored. This showed us how vulnerable democracy is when public input is buried. We launched Opgov.ai to bring those voices to light.

Open governance means making civic information accessible, not just transparent. We structure scattered data to reduce the research burden on citizens and help them engage in the decision-making process.

Currently, we support English only, but multilingual support is planned.

We use only official government data. To prevent financial bias, donations are capped at $2,500 per entity annually.

We have changed from donor based to subscription and advertisement based model. We only accept advertisements from local businesses and all advertisements will only be visible in 50 miles radius. Our reporters/journalists are community based and share the revenue driven from the community. This ensures that the revenue generated from the community stays in the community.

Yes. We are actively looking for community members to step up and click on add your city and our team will onboard you for your community. We have a short training period during which our team members will bring you up to speed.

When you subscribe we will ensure that you will receive our weekly news delivered to your address so you can enjoy the traditional style newspaper curated local news. Additionally you will not see ads on the site.

We send a newsletter on each Tuesday for Friday delivery, if its not delivered to you by Friday please reach out to us. Unlike other companies we appreciate the response from the community.

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To filter meetings:

1. Click the sidebar toggle button in the top-left corner to open the filters sidebar
2. Use the date range selector to specify a time period
3. Select specific topics from the Topics filter
4. The meetings list will automatically update to show only meetings that match your filters

You can reset all filters by clicking the “Clear Filters” button at the bottom of the sidebar.

From the meetings list, click on any meeting to view its details. The meeting detail page includes:

• Meeting summary
• Key takeaways
• Video recording (when available)
• Topics discussed
• Speakers
• Public comments
• Source documents

To change the committee or city you’re viewing:

1. Look for the committee selector in the navigation bar
2. Click on the dropdown to see available committees and cities
3. Select the committee or city you want to view
4. The page will refresh with data for your selected committee/city