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Civic AI Community of Practice AI Use Case Catalog
Readiness

Human review built in

A person checks the AI's output before it is used.

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Use cases tagged Human review built in

  • 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
  • Redaction review screen listing proposed redactions with the exemption claimed, a confidence indicator and accept or reject controls for the analyst.
    Internal tool

    Stage: PilotOrganization: County government — Records & open government office

    Redaction assist for public records requests

    Result in one line: First-pass review of a 500-page response went from about 14 hours to 4

    Proposes redactions on documents responsive to a public records request, with every proposal tied to the exemption it claims and reviewed by a records analyst before release.

    • Legal & compliance
    • Data & informatics
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Developer Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Needs a data agreement4 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
  • Onboarding checklist screen showing tasks grouped by before day one, week one and week two, with completed items ticked and access requests marked as opened.
    Internal tool

    Stage: Paused or retiredOrganization: Mid-sized city — Human Resources

    New-hire onboarding checklist assistant

    Result in one line: Cut help desk tickets per new hire from 11 to 3 during the eighteen months it ran

    A chat assistant that built a personalised onboarding checklist for each new hire and opened the routine access requests for them. Retired in 2026 when the HR system shipped the same feature.

    • HR & workforce
    • IT & operations
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Reference only Readiness: Human review built in3 more

    Deprecated — kept for the record