AI Building Blocks for Local Government™

A flexible software foundation giving public servants the tools to tackle the administrative work holding agencies back, from public records and meeting management to everything beyond.

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The challenge

The work local government does is meaningful, high-stakes, and relentlessly public-facing.

The software infrastructure underneath it has not kept pace.

The workload never stops

Local agencies handle an enormous range of critical work at once: public records requests, council meetings, emergency response, and more. Each of these matters deeply to the person waiting on the other end. Most of it is still done by hand.

The systems were not built for this

Most government software is decades old and each system works in isolation. To process a single request, staff often have to log into several platforms that share no data. Nothing is automatic. Nothing talks to anything else.

The rules only get more demanding

Public records laws, open meeting requirements, audit trails, data retention mandates: compliance is not optional and it does not slow down. Every task has to be done correctly and documented, even when there is no bandwidth left to do it.

The idea

Government doesn't need one massive platform. It needs focused tools that connect what's already there.

Every agency runs differently. Different systems, different workflows, different rules. Common Sense builds around that. Each module fits into your existing setup, accounts for the policies and laws specific to your agency, and solves one problem well. Start with what's slowing you down. Add more as you need.

What we build

Public Records & FOIA

Turn weeks of records work into hours.

Automatically triage, process, and respond to incoming records requests, with full audit trails and zero extra headcount.

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Agendas

Automate the most tedious parts of public meetings.

From packet assembly to post-meeting minutes, handle the hours of prep and cleanup that surround every council meeting.

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Composer

Build the workflow systems your agency needs.

Describe what you need in plain English. Composer generates a complete operational system — intake portals, AI review, approval routing, and more — no developers required.

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