The national decision layer of local government data.
Every council meeting, every motion, every recorded vote across 11,610 cities, counties, school districts, and special districts in the U.S. and Canada - aggregated and normalized into one queryable record that reaches back two decades.
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.
Twelve markets, one decision infrastructure layer
Explore the core GovData markets - each with its own buyer, workflow, and measurable value.
Signals for Investors
Early visibility into zoning, development, infrastructure, and regulatory movement across 11,610 jurisdictions.
- Hedge funds and PropTech
- Infrastructure and energy investors
- Research and alternative data teams
Open Signals page →
Public SectorPortals for Cities & Residents
A clearer public window into what local government is discussing and deciding, without changing how meetings run.
- Plain-language summaries
- Topic tracking over time
- Better self-service for the public
Open Portals page →
AI / MLAI Datasets for Civic Intelligence
A normalized, relational municipal corpus for training, grounding, evaluation, and trustworthy civic AI products.
- Training and RAG
- Evaluation and benchmarks
- Civic-tech and research products
Open AI page →
MediaNewsroom & Watchdog Feeds
Early-warning coverage feeds that help reporters and oversight teams catch stories before they are old news.
- Investigative and local newsrooms
- Watchdogs and civic oversight
- Data journalism teams
Open News page →
Gov ServicesMunicipal Consulting & Migrations
Independent municipal services for data exports, portal modernization, migrations, and ADA-aware strategy.
- High-fidelity data exports
- System migrations with confidence
- Portal and archive modernization
Open Munis 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 →
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 →
Site SelectionSite Selection & Expansion
See entitlement, land-use, infrastructure, and political feasibility signals before a market becomes obvious.
- Site selectors and developers
- Corporate real estate teams
- Utilities and hyperscalers
Open Site Selection page →
LegalCity Attorney & Records Defensibility
Reduce records-related exposure by making the legislative trail more complete, traceable, and defensible.
- City attorneys and clerks
- CIOs and city managers
- Outside counsel on migration and records
Open Legal Risk page →
Risk & InsuranceInsurers, Risk Pools & Diligence
A governance and procedural risk signal layer for underwriting, public-finance diligence, and municipal risk review.
- Public entity insurers and reinsurers
- Municipal risk pools
- Public-finance diligence teams
Open Diligence page →
Public FinanceMunicipal Credit & Fiscal Stress
The earliest read on issuer fiscal health - budget amendments, reserve drawdowns, pension and layoff discussion - from primary-source deliberation.
- Muni bond desks and credit analysts
- Public-finance advisors and diligence
- Issuer-level fiscal-stress monitoring
Open Muni Credit page →
AccountabilityAccountability & Voting Records
A behavior graph of 187,068 officials and 16M+ recorded votes - per-official records, sponsor networks, and scorecards linked across jurisdictions and decades.
- Newsrooms and watchdogs
- Researchers and policy labs
- Campaigns and civic-tech products
Open Accountability page →
More markets, built on the same foundation
The same underlying data also powers adjacent commercial uses across procurement, philanthropy, research, advisory, publishing, and infrastructure planning.
Procurement & Gov Sales Intelligence
Detect budget discussions, pilot approvals, departmental priorities, contract renewals, and pre-RFP buying signals earlier.
- Capture teams and GovTech vendors
- Procurement intelligence workflows
- Budget and contract monitoring
Grantmaking, Philanthropy & Nonprofit Targeting
Find cities moving on housing, climate, public safety, digital equity, homelessness, and infrastructure before funding decisions are made.
- Foundations and policy nonprofits
- Implementation and outreach planning
- Issue-specific city targeting
Academic 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
Consulting & 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
Trade Publishers & B2B Intelligence Products
Build premium newsletters, daily feeds, and sector intelligence products around housing, energy, EVs, data centers, and regulation.
- Vertical media and research products
- Recurring intelligence feeds
- Structured municipal sourcing
Utilities & Grid Planning Stakeholders
Track local actions tied to substations, transmission, EV infrastructure, storage, microgrids, and load-intensive development.
- Utilities and grid consultants
- Interconnection and infrastructure planning
- Power-demand signal monitoring
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, publication sequence, attachment trails, and vote chronology in disputed municipal matters
- Economic development groups and chambers that need to understand how their region compares on entitlement climate, project momentum, and public-sector responsiveness
- 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 to spot migration windows, recurring portal pain, accessibility exposure, and feature gaps cities are signaling in public
GovData supports more than one revenue motion. The same decision-layer foundation can power recurring subscriptions, enterprise data licenses, municipal services, custom diligence, and white-label research products across multiple industries.
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.
- Longitudinal: the same entities tracked over two decades - deep enough to backtest a signal, not just see a snapshot of today
- Leading indicator: decisions surface months before they reach permits, news, or state datasets
- Behavior graph: the voting and sponsorship record of every official, linked across jurisdictions and over time
- Normalized entities and relationships across jurisdictions, vendors, and decades
- Point-in-time provenance - each record carries when the decision happened and when it entered the dataset
- Daily deltas with late-arriving updates, built 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".
What the dataset actually contains
The value is not just that the records are public. The value is that GovData preserves the legislative chain in a normalized form that can be searched, linked, and distributed nationally.
Meetings
Council, board, committee, planning, and other public meetings with structured metadata, dates, bodies, and jurisdictions.
Agenda items
Agenda items, matter records, topics, and related legislative objects linked to the meetings where they were considered.
Attachments
Staff reports, ordinances, packet documents, exhibits, and supporting files that often contain the real substance behind a decision.
Outcomes
Motions, votes, sponsors, timestamps, and related decision outcomes that make local policy movement traceable over time.
Current dataset scale
The pipeline is already operating at meaningful scale across multiple legislative platforms and custom public portals. Public stats snapshot: June 19, 2026.
Vendor platforms and custom portals
GovData is designed for the real market: heterogeneous platforms, uneven archives, and public portals that vary by deployment.
Coverage spans major legislative systems and custom municipal portals used by cities, counties, and related public bodies.
- AgendaQuick
- BoardDocs
- BoardEffect
- Boardable
- Catalis
- Civica (Modern.Gov)
- CivicClerk
- CivicPlus
- eScribe
- Granicus
- Hyland (Sire / OnBase)
- iCompass
- IQM2
- JCG Technologies
- Legend Software
- Legistar
- MinuteTraq
- Municipal One
- Municode
- NovusAGENDA
- OnBoard
- OneMeeting
- OpenMeeting
- Peak
- PrimeGov
- Simbli
- Swagit
- TownSuite
- Custom municipal portals
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.