We deploy OpenCivic on your jurisdiction's actual ordinance, GIS, and permit records, baseline how your counter works today, and measure what changes. You see real numbers on your own workload before you commit to anything long-term — and founding partners keep founding-partner pricing.
Cohorts are deliberately small — a few jurisdictions at a time — so the founding team works with yours directly.
You get a working deployment and outsized attention from the people who built it. We get the thing an early product needs most: honest usage and measured results.
A full deployment on your ordinance, GIS layers, and permit records — the resident chatbot, the staff parcel tools, cited answers, and one-click parcel reports and draft zoning-verification letters.
A week-one baseline of your current counter workload, and a written before/after report at day 90 — numbers you can take to your board either way.
Direct access to the founding team, weekly tuning on your top questions, and pricing that stays at the founding-partner rate if you continue.
Real use: put it in front of counter staff and, when you're ready, the public — not a sandbox nobody opens.
A measurement partner: help us capture the week-one baseline and a short feedback call each week — your planners' corrections become verified answers that make the system yours.
And if the day-90 numbers deliver, a reference: a named case study other jurisdictions can call about.
In week one we record how things work today. At day 90 you get the same numbers again, side by side. Typical measures, chosen with you at kickoff:
How many routine zoning and permit questions get answered online instead of in line.
How long staff spend per code or records lookup — before and after.
How fast a developer or homeowner gets a usable, cited answer to a pre-application question.
How long a parcel report or draft zoning-verification letter takes — hours of assembly versus one click plus review.
Our technical work runs in the first two weeks; the rest is your team using it with us alongside.
Procurement, legal, and security review happen on your jurisdiction's own timeline, alongside or before the pilot.
We record your current counter workload, ingest your ordinance, and wire up GIS and permit records — the same 2-week rollout as any deployment.
Counter staff and planners use it first. Their corrections become staff-verified answers that override the model on your highest-stakes questions.
Open it to the public when you're ready. Weekly tuning calls; we watch the questions residents actually ask and close the gaps.
Same measurements as week one, side by side, in a written report. You decide with numbers — continue at founding-partner pricing, or walk away with the report.
Tell us about your county or city — your ordinance, your systems, and the part of the counter you most want off your staff's plate.