What I've Been Building — and Where It's Going
For the past several months I've been building CivicBrief, a tool that automatically monitors local government meetings and delivers plain English summaries to residents the morning after.
The idea is simple: most people don't have time to watch 3-hour board meeting recordings, but they still want to know what's happening in their city. CivicBrief watches the meetings so you don't have to.
What's Working Right Now
CivicBrief is currently live and actively monitoring Nashua, NH. Every time the Board of Aldermen or Board of Education uploads a meeting recording, the pipeline automatically processes it — transcribing the audio, extracting key decisions, and generating a summary. Subscribers get an email with the main takeaways, a plain English breakdown of what happened, and a link to the original video.
The Live Reports dashboard at livereports.civbrief.com shows every processed meeting with full summaries, contractor intelligence, and meeting transcripts.
What I'm Working On Next
A few things I'm actively building out:
Searchable archive — the ability to search across all past meeting reports by keyword, project name, contractor, or topic. This is one of the most valuable features for contractors, developers, and residents who want to track how a specific issue has moved through local government over time.
More towns— right now the pipeline focuses on Nashua. I'm expanding coverage to include other town bodies that make decisions residents should know about.
Contractor Intel — using this tool to process data points for potential contractor bidding to simplify the process and give contractors a leg up on potential future work.
Towns Coming Soon
Nashua is the starting point. Here's what's next on my list:
Raymond, NH — pipeline is built, activating soon
Concord, NH
Derry, NH
Londonderry, NH
Beyond that I'm tracking another 20+ NH municipalities and hope to have statewide coverage within the next year.
