We help cities do more with their legislative data.
At GovData Consulting, we combine deep GovTech expertise with hands-on implementation support. We help cities protect and modernize their official record through high-fidelity data conversions, system migrations, modern public portals, and ADA-aware strategies.
Focused on Legistar and CivicPlus cities.
We know how the schema, business rules, and public portal fit together.
Independent consultancy. Not affiliated with Granicus or CivicPlus.
Services tailored to cities
Whether you're staying on Legistar, considering CivicPlus, preparing an RFP, or moving away entirely - we help you protect your record, improve your public experience, and unlock new capabilities.
High-fidelity Legistar and CivicPlus exports
We extract and normalize your complete legislative history - accurately and verifiably.
- Every meeting, file, motion, vote, and attachment
- Preserved relationships and cross-links
- Ready for new systems, archives, or analytics
Moving from/to legislative systems
We help you move from/to Legistar, CivicPlus, and similar systems with confidence.
- Mapping from existing schema to target platforms
- Iterative test loads with validation reports
- Support for parallel run and switchover
Legislative data as a service
We turn your legislation/meetings/votes into a clean, understandable data source for your IT and civic-tech partners.
- REST/JSON endpoints over your existing data
- Feeds into websites, dashboards, and archives
- Support for open data and transparency initiatives
New citizen-facing experiences
We design modern, mobile-first public views over your existing content - accessibility-first instead of PDF-first.
- Searchable, thumb-friendly meeting and file pages
- Video sync and inline document previews
- City-branded interfaces that feel first-party
- Attendance and voting dashboards
- Designed to reduce reliance on legacy PDFs
AI-powered transparency & summaries
We layer responsible AI on top of your official record - never instead of it.
- Search-by-question over meetings, files, and attachments
- Topic timelines, summaries, and "what changed when" views
- Guided experiences for council, staff, and the public
- Built with privacy, security, and auditability in mind
Strategies for accessibility & remediation
We help cities understand, prioritize, and reduce their exposure around PDF-heavy portals and archives.
- Inventory and risk scoring of existing PDFs
- Roadmap: what to remediate, retire, or rebuild in HTML
- Strategies to reduce ongoing per-page remediation costs
- Implementation support alongside your IT staff
Built around the city clerk's reality
Our work is grounded in how clerk and records offices actually function: busy agendas, limited IT bandwidth, and high expectations from council and the public.
- Cities planning to migrate from/to Legistar, CivicPlus, or other systems
- Cities needing a complete, trustworthy data export
- Cities struggling with an outdated public portal
- Cities being told they must remediate thousands of PDFs
- Cities exploring AI but unsure where to start safely
- Cities preparing RFPs and needing expert guidance on data
- Cities being forced to move from NovusAGENDA, IQM2, MinuteTraq, PrimeGov, OneMeeting
"Darius is the only person on the planet who truly understands the Legistar system and its complicated database."
Let's make your legislative data work harder for you
Share where you are in your journey - renewing Legistar, considering CivicPlus, planning an RFP, or actively moving to another system.
How engagements usually work
Most projects start with a focused review of your current environment: data, public portal, related systems, and upcoming deadlines. From there, we outline options for exports, migrations, or new front-ends and help you weigh trade-offs.
We're comfortable working alongside your IT staff, software vendors, and implementation partners. Our goal is to make sure the underlying legislative record stays intact and usable.
Typical outcomes include:
- A verified, documented export of your data
- Mappings and prototypes for new systems or portals
- Strategies to reduce PDF remediation scope and cost
- Dashboards, APIs, or AI experiences over your data
Send us an email first. Then, we can schedule a short discovery call focused on your current environment, goals, deadlines, and any accessibility or PDF remediation issues you're facing.
Principal: Darius Tajanko, Original Legistar Architect
Email: info@govdataconsulting.com
Phone: (312) 767-4004
Prefer something in writing first? We're happy to review RFP drafts, export samples, accessibility findings, or previous migration reports and provide an honest assessment.