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For city councils.
Built by ex-clerks.

CivicCA replaces older agenda systems and the 14-tab Word ritual with a single platform — agenda building, dais control, voting, AI-drafted minutes, and a court-defensible public portal. All compliant with the Brown Act, SB 707, and 51 state frameworks.

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§ 01 / Why councils switch

Off Granicus. Off the Word ritual.
Onto one platform.

Small-city clerks are running enterprise software priced for big cities — and still rebuilding the packet by hand every week. Here’s the difference.

The old way

Legacy system + manual packet

×You pay Granicus / Legistar enterprise pricing for software built for big cities.
×The clerk rebuilds the agenda across a dozen Word tabs, then exports a static PDF packet.
×The 72-hour Brown Act clock is tracked by hand — one slip and the meeting is exposed.
×Residents dig through a clunky portal or a PDF dump to find what’s on the agenda.
×Minutes take days, and agendas, video, and eComment live in three separate tools.
With CivicCA

One court-defensible platform

✓One platform at a fraction of legacy cost — purpose-built for cities under 50k.
✓Drag-drop builder with auto-cited code sections; a 24-item agenda in ~22 minutes, no Word.
✓The 72-hour posting clock and Brown Act / SB 707 checks run automatically as you build.
✓A branded, searchable, ADA + 21-language public portal — residents find items in seconds.
✓AI minutes from the live transcript; agendas, video, eComment & portal in one system.
Easy to switch: drop in last meeting’s agenda PDF and CivicCA reads it, builds your template, and matches your formatting — most councils are publishing inside one business day, with no IT project or migration manager.
§ 02 / The Tuesday-night flow

From staff submission
to court-defensible record.

Department heads submit, the clerk reviews, the council meets, the public portal publishes. One thread, one platform.

01

Build the agenda

Drag-and-drop builder. Auto-cited code sections. AI summaries. 72-hour posting timer with cryptographic timestamp.

Mon morning
02

Run the dais

Speaker queue, attendance, roll call voting, real-time agenda navigation. Tablet or laptop — works on the dais.

Tue 6 PM
03

Publish the record

AI-drafted minutes from the live transcript. Compliance check. Publish to the public portal in 21 languages.

Wed AM
§ 03 / What you get

One platform.
Replaces three.

Agendas, video, eComment, transcription, public portal — the lot. No add-ons, no integration tax.

I

Agenda Builder

Drag-drop sections, file numbers, sponsors, auto-cited code sections, AI summaries.

Brown Act ready
II

Dais Control

Live meeting management, speaker queue, attendance, real-time agenda navigation.

Tablet or laptop
III

Roll Call Voting

Motion tracking, voting record, recusals auto-logged, exportable voting reports.

Court-defensible
IV

AI Minutes

Drafted from the live transcript with speaker diarization. Clerk reviews, publishes in minutes.

10x faster
V

Public Portal

Branded citizen portal. Searchable archive. eComment intake. WCAG 2.1 AA. 21 languages.

ADA compliant
VI

Compliance Engine

Real-time Brown Act, SB 707, and 51-state framework checks. Daily deadline emails.

51 frameworks
§ 04 / Why councils trust us

Built on the same standards your agency is held to.

  • SEC-01SOC 2-compliant cloud infrastructure
  • SEC-02FedRAMP authorization planned
  • SEC-03256-bit TLS encryption
  • SEC-0499.9% uptime SLA
  • SEC-05Daily automated backups
  • SEC-06Hosted in the USA
§ 05 / The 1-day path

Your next council meeting
could run on this.

Drop in last meeting’s PDF. CivicCA reads it, builds your template, matches your formatting. Most councils publishing on the platform inside one business day — no IT project, no migration manager.

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1Upload last meeting’s agenda PDF2 min
2CivicCA parses sections + citations~90 sec
3Add your council members & bodies10 min
4Build this Tuesday’s agenda · publish25 min
5Public portal live · 72-hour clock startslive

Modernize the council. Keep the record.

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