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  • Side-by-side view of an original water shutoff notice and its plain-language rewrite, with the pre-publication review checklist beneath.
    Featured Prompt library

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Mid-sized city — Communications office

    Plain-language and multilingual service notices

    Result in one line: Median reading level of published notices fell from grade 14 to grade 7

    A prompt kit and review checklist staff use to rewrite public service notices at a seventh-grade reading level and prepare them for translation, without changing what the notice requires.

    • Communications & outreach
    • Emergency preparedness
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Anyone on staff Readiness: Ready to deploy Readiness: Human review built in2 more
  • Routing queue showing incoming service requests with the source language, translated text, assigned category, urgency tier and routing status.
    Featured Cloud deployment

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Large city — 311 customer service center

    311 service request routing

    Result in one line: Median time from request to routed work order fell from two days to four minutes

    Translates and classifies resident service requests arriving by phone, web form and app, assigns a category and urgency tier, and opens the work order in the right department's queue.

    • IT & operations
    • Communications & outreach
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Contractor or vendor Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Needs a contractor4 more
  • Published meeting summary page listing agenda items with a short plain-language description, the vote outcome and a link to the timestamp in the recording.
    Featured Cloud deployment

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Small city — City Clerk's office

    Council meeting summaries from the recording

    Result in one line: Summary published the morning after the meeting instead of three weeks later

    Turns the recording of a public council or board meeting into a plain-language summary of what was discussed and decided, published alongside the official minutes.

    • Communications & outreach
    • Leadership & administration
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Analyst or data scientist Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Human review built in2 more
  • Intake queue showing permit applications with type, completeness check, missing documents and routing status.
    Featured Source code

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Mid-sized city — Development Services

    Permit application intake triage

    Result in one line: Applications returned for a missing document fell from 46% to 12% of intake

    Reads incoming building and trade permit applications, checks them against the submittal requirements for that permit type, and routes complete ones straight to a plan reviewer.

    • IT & operations
    • Data & informatics
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Developer Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Human review built in3 more
  • Prototype backlog view grouping maintenance tickets by shop and trade, with proposed failure codes and an agreement rate against the shops' own coding.
    Dashboard

    Stage: Idea / exploringOrganization: County government — Public works, fleet & facilities

    Work order classification for fleet and facilities

    Result in one line: Not in service yet: on 12 months of past tickets it agreed with the shops' own coding 84% of the time

    A prototype that reads free-text maintenance tickets, assigns a trade and a failure code, and shows the resulting backlog by shop — built to test whether coded tickets would make the backlog legible.

    • IT & operations
    • Data & informatics
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Reference only Readiness: Needs customization2 more
  • Theme report listing comment themes with counts, share of total, a representative quotation and a link to every comment assigned to that theme.
    Source code

    Stage: PilotOrganization: Mid-sized city — Planning department

    Theme analysis of public comment

    Result in one line: 4,100 comments on a draft zoning update summarized in two days instead of six weeks

    An open-source notebook that groups the comments received on a plan or rule into themes, counts them, and links every theme back to the comments it came from so a reader can check it.

    • Policy & planning
    • Data & informatics
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Analyst or data scientist Readiness: Guided setup Readiness: Needs customization3 more

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  • Prototype backlog view grouping maintenance tickets by shop and trade, with proposed failure codes and an agreement rate against the shops' own coding.
    Dashboard

    Stage: Idea / exploringOrganization: County government — Public works, fleet & facilities

    Work order classification for fleet and facilities

    Result in one line: Not in service yet: on 12 months of past tickets it agreed with the shops' own coding 84% of the time

    A prototype that reads free-text maintenance tickets, assigns a trade and a failure code, and shows the resulting backlog by shop — built to test whether coded tickets would make the backlog legible.

    • IT & operations
    • Data & informatics
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Reference only Readiness: Needs customization2 more
  • Theme report listing comment themes with counts, share of total, a representative quotation and a link to every comment assigned to that theme.
    Source code

    Stage: PilotOrganization: Mid-sized city — Planning department

    Theme analysis of public comment

    Result in one line: 4,100 comments on a draft zoning update summarized in two days instead of six weeks

    An open-source notebook that groups the comments received on a plan or rule into themes, counts them, and links every theme back to the comments it came from so a reader can check it.

    • Policy & planning
    • Data & informatics
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Analyst or data scientist Readiness: Guided setup Readiness: Needs customization3 more
  • Side-by-side view of an original water shutoff notice and its plain-language rewrite, with the pre-publication review checklist beneath.
    Featured Prompt library

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Mid-sized city — Communications office

    Plain-language and multilingual service notices

    Result in one line: Median reading level of published notices fell from grade 14 to grade 7

    A prompt kit and review checklist staff use to rewrite public service notices at a seventh-grade reading level and prepare them for translation, without changing what the notice requires.

    • Communications & outreach
    • Emergency preparedness
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Anyone on staff Readiness: Ready to deploy Readiness: Human review built in2 more
  • Routing queue showing incoming service requests with the source language, translated text, assigned category, urgency tier and routing status.
    Featured Cloud deployment

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Large city — 311 customer service center

    311 service request routing

    Result in one line: Median time from request to routed work order fell from two days to four minutes

    Translates and classifies resident service requests arriving by phone, web form and app, assigns a category and urgency tier, and opens the work order in the right department's queue.

    • IT & operations
    • Communications & outreach
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Contractor or vendor Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Needs a contractor4 more
  • Clause summary table listing indemnification, data ownership and other clauses with page references, plain-language summaries and comparison flags.
    Vendor product

    Stage: PilotOrganization: State agency — Procurement division

    Clause summaries for procurement review

    Result in one line: Cut first-pass contract review from five business days to one

    A licensed product that extracts clauses from scanned vendor agreements, summarizes them in plain language, and flags where they differ from our standard terms or are missing entirely.

    • Finance, procurement & contracts
    • Legal & compliance
    Skills needed to set it up: Contractor or vendor Readiness: Needs a paid license Readiness: Needs a data agreement3 more

  • Playbook or write-upStage: In productionOrganization: County government — Grants office

    Grant narrative drafting from an approved library

    Result in one line: Halved first-draft time on routine narrative sections, from about eight hours to four

    A curated library of approved organizational boilerplate plus a drafting workflow, used to produce first-pass narrative sections for funding applications in our own language.

    • Leadership & administration
    • Finance, procurement & contracts
    • Policy & planning
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Needs a paid license Readiness: Needs customization3 more

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