Real-time municipal decision intelligence.
GovData aggregates and normalizes municipal meeting data from more than 2,500 cities, counties, and special districts across the United States. We process 20,000+ meetings monthly to provide early visibility into the decisions that shape real estate, infrastructure, energy, and housing.
Built on three decades of domain expertise.
Led by Darius Tajanko, Original Legistar Architect (1996-2014), now applying deep domain modeling combined with modern AI to build the national municipal decision layer.
Five ways to work with GovData
The same normalized municipal decision layer powers products for different audiences - from hedge funds to city clerks.
For Institutional Investors
Early visibility into zoning, development, and regulatory signals across thousands of jurisdictions.
- Hedge funds, PropTech, and real estate analytics
- Infrastructure and energy investors
- Law firms and regulatory analysts
Learn more about Signals →
PortalsFor Cities & Residents
A clearer public window into local government. Plain-language summaries without forcing cities to change how they run meetings.
- Improve transparency with less staff burden
- Help residents follow topics over time
- Link agenda items to outcomes
Learn more about Portals →
AIFor AI & Civic-Tech Teams
A normalized, relational municipal corpus for AI training, grounding (RAG), and evaluation.
- Foundation model teams needing civic data
- RAG platforms requiring structured ground truth
- Civic intelligence and transparency startups
Learn more about AI datasets →
NewsFor Newsrooms & Watchdogs
Early-warning feeds for journalists and oversight organizations tracking local government.
- Investigative journalists and local news
- Research labs and academic teams
- Civic watchdog organizations
Learn more about News feeds →
MunisCustom Services for Cities
Data conversions, migrations, and modernization projects for municipalities using Legistar, CivicPlus, and similar systems.
- High-fidelity data exports
- System migrations with confidence
- ADA/PDF risk reduction strategies
Learn more about Munis services →
Deep domain expertise meets modern AI
GovData is a normalized municipal decision data layer that turns meetings, agenda items, motions, and votes into comparable, queryable objects across jurisdictions.
Today, off-the-shelf AI can read meetings, but it cannot by itself understand how a motion in Phoenix relates to a vote in Pittsburgh. GovData's advantage comes from deep domain modeling combined with modern AI, applied to a problem that has only recently become technically and economically tractable.
- Normalized entities and relationships across jurisdictions
- Time-stamped decision outcomes with full provenance
- Daily deltas with late-arriving updates
- Designed for warehouse, lake, and model-ingestion workflows
"Darius is the only person on the planet who truly understands the Legistar system and its complicated database."
Let's discuss your use case
Whether you're an investor seeking signals, a city looking for better transparency, an AI team needing training data, or a newsroom tracking local government - we'd like to hear from you.
How conversations usually start
Most engagements begin with a short call or email exchange to understand your specific needs: what data you need, what format works best, and what timeline you're working with.
From there, we can structure a pilot, demo, or engagement that fits your situation - whether that's a 2-week signal pilot, a portal demo for your city, or a custom data delivery.
Common starting points:
- Sample data and schema review
- Pilot access to signals or datasets
- Portal demo with your city's data
- Custom data slices for specific regions or topics
Principal: Darius Tajanko, Original Legistar Architect
Email: info@govdataconsulting.com
Phone: (312) 767-4004
Not sure which product fits? Just reach out and describe what you're trying to accomplish. We'll point you in the right direction.