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  • 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
  • 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