Every public meeting.
Fully searchable.
Fully sourced.
Paideia turns hours-long city council recordings into instant, cited answers — so labor unions, advocacy groups, nonprofits, and community organizers can quickly find what matters without sitting through hours of meetings. Every answer points back to the exact speaker, timestamp, and moment in the original recording.
Staff recommended approval, on the condition that the developer funds a sidewalk extension along Elm Street.
↳ Cited: 01:14:41, Director Okafor · Source video availableFrom recording to sourced answer, automatically.
Paideia uses retrieval-augmented generation to find what you’re looking for, even when you don’t know the bill number, agenda item, or exact language. Instead of relying on keyword matches, Paideia searches the underlying meaning of the record and brings the relevant source directly to you.
Ask in plain language
Ask the question the way you naturally would. No bill number, exact phrase, or agenda code required.
→Get the answer and the source
Find the relevant quote, bill, contract, or record quickly. Unlike general AI chatbots, every answer is strictly grounded in the original source, which is always just one click away.
→Follow the issues that matter
Create alerts for topics you care about and stay informed as related discussions, legislation, and records appear.
→Catch what you might have missed
Meeting Watches surface new and emerging clips from local meetings that are relevant to your work, even when you weren’t watching.
The information gap is becoming an AI power gap.
The rapid deployment of generative AI has saturated our information environment. As the volume of digital noise increases, reducing the friction to find verifiable, ground-truth civic information is essential for democratic resilience.
Companies are already deploying custom AI tools to monitor policy and shape consensus at scale. Community organizations are the backbone of democratic accountability and cannot be left behind. Paideia bridges this divide by providing a ready-to-deploy solution that gives civic groups parity.
Information Saturation
AI makes it cheaper than ever to generate noise. Paideia is built entirely for signal, cutting through the saturation to find verifiable facts.
Asymmetric Capabilities
Corporate actors already use custom AI tools to track local policy. Civic organizations need equivalent analytical power to maintain the balance of power.
Source-Faithful Architecture
By restricting our retrieval exclusively to public records, we insulate users from hallucinations and automated data poisoning.
Built to follow local decisions wherever they happen.
Paideia is expanding across municipalities so organizations can track the issues that matter to them across more than one city, compare how local decisions are evolving, and stay ahead of changes that affect their communities.
Our mission remains the same:
make public information easier to find, understand, and act on.
Unions
Track collective bargaining precedents, public sector contract negotiations, and budget allocations across regional municipalities.
Nonprofits
Ensure critical local decisions do not slip under the radar. Monitor quiet funding shifts, last-minute agenda updates, and obscure committee actions.
Advocacy groups
Hold elected officials accountable at the ballot box by tracking their voting records over time. Follow emerging debates and mobilize rapid-response campaigns using verifiable quotes and clips.
Securing the digital public square
Advanced AI systems are dramatically altering the civic information ecosystem. We believe the safest way to navigate this transition is by empowering the organizations that protect our communities.
At its core, Paideia is an AI safety initiative : by deploying secure, constrained, and rigorously evaluated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to the public sector, we are building the technical infrastructure necessary to keep local democracy resilient against AI-driven disempowerment.
Monitoring local government, made easy.
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