The national decision layer of local government data.
Source-available municipal meetings, agenda items, motions, vote records, and documents spanning 13,000+ cities, counties, school districts, and special districts in the U.S. and Canada, normalized into one queryable corpus. Coverage varies by source, and some archives extend more than two decades.
Built on three decades of domain expertise.
GovData Consulting is led by Darius Tajanko, an original architect of Legistar who worked on the platform from 1996 through 2014. He now applies that municipal systems experience to the national decision layer.
Five markets, one decision infrastructure layer
Explore the core markets, each with its own buyer, workflow, and evidence standard.
Signals for Investors
Documented zoning, development, infrastructure, and regulatory activity across 13,000+ jurisdictions.
- Hedge funds and PropTech
- Infrastructure and energy investors
- Research and alternative data teams
Open Signals page →
Public AffairsGovernment Affairs & Lobbying
Track local policy emergence, committee movement, staff packets, amendments, and vote timing across jurisdictions.
- Lobbying firms and trade groups
- Issue advocacy teams
- In-house public affairs
Open Government Affairs page →
AI / MLAI Datasets for Civic Intelligence
A normalized, relational municipal corpus for retrieval, grounding, and evaluation, with model-training rights reviewed separately for each proposed use.
- Retrieval, grounding, and RAG
- Evaluation and benchmarks
- Separately reviewed training-rights inquiries
Open AI page →
GovConGovernment Sales & Procurement Intelligence
Research budget discussions, pilot approvals, departmental priorities, contract renewals, and other upstream public records connected to procurement activity.
- Capture teams and GovTech vendors
- Procurement intelligence workflows
- Budget and contract monitoring
Open Procurement page →
Public FinanceMunicipal Finance & Credit
Source-linked issuer chronology for budget amendments, reserve decisions, pension discussions, workforce actions, and other public fiscal events.
- Muni bond desks and credit analysts
- Public-finance advisors and diligence
- Issuer-level fiscal-event chronology
Open Muni Finance page →
More markets, built on the same foundation
The same underlying data also powers adjacent commercial uses across operations, media, research, advisory, infrastructure, and municipal services.
Site Selection & Expansion
Track source-available land-use, entitlement, and infrastructure-related public actions for use alongside site, engineering, utility, and market research.
- Site selectors and developers
- Corporate real estate teams
- Utilities and hyperscalers
Open Site Selection page →
ComplianceMulti-Location Compliance
Monitor local rule changes that affect permitting, signage, parking, delivery, operating hours, and enforcement.
- Retail, restaurant, logistics, telecom
- Energy, waste, and EV operators
- Regional compliance teams
Open Compliance page →
MediaNewsrooms & Watchdogs
Search source-available local records now, then scope newsroom monitoring, source-pack, and delivery workflows around the coverage a team needs.
- Investigative and local newsrooms
- Watchdogs and civic oversight
- Data journalism teams
Open News page →
Risk & InsuranceInsurers, Risk Pools & Diligence
Build source-linked chronologies of findings, fiscal actions, litigation, emergencies, oversight, leadership, contracts, and remediation for further diligence.
- Public entity insurers and reinsurers
- Municipal risk pools
- Public-finance diligence teams
Open Diligence page →
LegalLegal & Records Defensibility
Research legislative history, chronology, migration exports, archive continuity, and source gaps while leaving legal conclusions to counsel and official custodians.
- City attorneys and clerks
- CIOs and city managers
- Outside counsel on migration and records
Open Legal Risk page →
AccountabilityAccountability & Voting Records
A source-linked public-record graph spanning 189,000+ elected officials and 21M+ vote records, with person-level roll-call, sponsorship, identity, and historical coverage varying by source.
- Newsrooms and watchdogs
- Researchers and policy labs
- Campaigns and civic-tech products
Open Accountability page →
ResearchAcademic Research & Policy Labs
Use structured municipal decision history for longitudinal studies, policy diffusion work, and local governance research.
- Universities and think tanks
- Comparative policy analysis
- Time-aware public-record research
Open Research page →
AdvisoryConsulting & Advisory Firms
Power client work in public affairs, infrastructure, market entry, regulatory mapping, and local government strategy.
- Management and regulatory consultants
- Infrastructure and market advisors
- White-label research support
Open Advisory page →
B2B MediaTrade Publishers & B2B Intelligence Products
Build source-backed newsletters, vertical research, and B2B intelligence products around housing, energy, EVs, data centers, and regulation.
- Repeatable municipal story discovery
- Source packs and licensed data inputs
- Editorial control in your own product
Open Publishing page →
PhilanthropyPhilanthropy & Nonprofits
Identify source-available public activity in housing, climate, public safety, digital equity, homelessness, and infrastructure for further funding and implementation research.
- Foundations and policy nonprofits
- Implementation and outreach planning
- Issue-specific city targeting
Open Philanthropy page →
UtilitiesUtilities & Grid Planning Stakeholders
Track public actions around large-load land use, utility plans, substations, corridors, EV infrastructure, storage, rates, and capital approvals.
- Utilities and grid consultants
- Large-load developers and planners
- Source-linked public approval context
Open Utilities page →
Municipal ServicesMunicipal Portals & Consulting
Assess public access, data exports, archive continuity, portal strategy, and migration planning against a municipality's systems and records requirements.
- Plain-language public portals
- High-fidelity data exports
- Migrations and archive modernization
Open Municipal Services page →
Project-based and embedded engagements
These buyers usually engage through custom pilots, diligence projects, or embedded research workflows, where the value is tied to a specific mandate, client engagement, or transaction.
- Litigation support and expert-witness research for reconstructing legislative history, documented record chronology, attachment trails, and vote chronology in disputed municipal matters
- Economic development groups and chambers comparing documented entitlement actions, project timelines, conditions, and public infrastructure commitments across target regions
- Title, land-use, and entitlement diligence for tracing rezonings, annexations, development agreements, easements, and hearing history tied to specific projects or parcels
- GovTech competitive intelligence and vendor benchmarking based on documented procurement and migration activity, stated portal requirements, and published accessibility remediation plans
LocalGovIndex is GovData Consulting's live public-search product. GovData Consulting separately provides paid API access and scopes licensed extracts, custom intelligence, and consulting services for defined buyer workflows.
Deep domain expertise meets modern AI
GovData Consulting builds a normalized municipal decision data layer that turns meetings, agenda items, motions, and votes into comparable, queryable objects across jurisdictions.
General-purpose AI can summarize individual records. Reliable cross-jurisdiction analysis still depends on consistent entities, action types, dates, and source links. GovData Consulting combines that municipal structure with modern AI so related actions can be compared without losing the underlying record.
- Longitudinal: source history ranges from recent records to archives extending more than two decades
- Event context: municipal actions can be compared with later permits, news, disclosures, and other datasets
- Source-linked public-record graph: people, bodies, matters, motions, votes, and sponsors linked where source records support them
- Normalized entities and relationships with explicit source and coverage limits
- Event and observation timestamps where maintained, with later backfills and corrections identified
- Free public search; paid API access with an issued key; extracts and recurring updates scoped separately
Municipal records are not just documents. They are workflows connecting bodies, meetings, matters, attachments, sponsors, motions, votes, and later actions. Preserving those distinctions is the core modeling problem.
What the dataset actually contains
The value is not just that the records are public. The value is a normalized structure that preserves available legislative relationships and makes source and coverage limits visible.
Meetings
Source-available council, board, committee, planning, and other public meetings with normalized metadata, dates, bodies, and jurisdictions.
Agenda items
Agenda items, matter records, topics, and related legislative objects linked to meetings where source records support the relationship.
Attachments
Available staff reports, ordinances, packet documents, exhibits, and supporting files, with text extraction and source-link coverage varying by document.
Outcomes
Motions, vote records, sponsors, timestamps, and outcomes where published, with person-level linkage and procedural detail varying by source.
Current dataset scale
The pipeline is already operating at meaningful scale across multiple legislative platforms and custom public portals. Counts below are conservative rounded floors. View live public statistics.
Municipal records do not arrive in one shape
GovData Consulting scopes the sources, history, and record relationships required for each engagement, including uneven archives and systems that changed over time.
Work can span six broad source environments. Exact compatibility depends on public access, archive depth, available fields, and the jurisdictions and record types in scope.
| Source environment | Typical public material | What must be confirmed |
|---|---|---|
| Agenda and meeting systems | Agendas, packets, minutes, recordings, and item files | Public access, archive depth, item structure, and vote detail |
| Legislative information portals | Matters, sponsors, actions, votes, and attachments | Identifiers, relationships, history, and completeness |
| Board and committee records | Rosters, meetings, decisions, and supporting files | Body structure, member terms, and record consistency |
| Document and archive systems | Ordinances, resolutions, contracts, reports, and scans | Searchability, file formats, linking, and retention |
| Municipal websites and custom portals | Notices, department pages, hosted files, and custom databases | Stable access, change patterns, and metadata quality |
| Hybrid and legacy collections | Platform migrations, PDFs, scans, and partial exports | Continuity, duplication, gaps, and feasible normalization |
Choose a clear starting point
Search LocalGovIndex now. Contact GovData Consulting for paid API access, a source-linked sector sample, a scoped intelligence pilot, or a municipal consulting engagement.
Principal: Darius Tajanko, Original Legistar Architect
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Start with one concrete question: which places, records, and dates matter, and what decision will the result support? GovData Consulting will recommend public search, paid API access, a source-linked sample, or a separately scoped engagement.