The national decision layer of local government data.
GovData is building the national dataset of local government decisions by aggregating and normalizing municipal legislative activity across thousands of cities, counties, and special districts across the United States and Canada.
Built on three decades of domain expertise.
Led by Darius Tajanko, Original Legistar Architect (1996-2014), now applying deep domain modeling combined with modern AI to build the national municipal decision layer.
Ten markets, one decision infrastructure layer
Explore the core GovData markets - each with its own buyer, workflow, and measurable value.
Signals for Investors
Early visibility into zoning, development, infrastructure, and regulatory movement across thousands of jurisdictions.
- Hedge funds and PropTech
- Infrastructure and energy investors
- Research and alternative data teams
Open Signals page →
Tier 1Portals for Cities & Residents
A clearer public window into what local government is discussing and deciding, without changing how meetings run.
- Plain-language summaries
- Topic tracking over time
- Better self-service for the public
Open Portals page →
Tier 1AI Datasets for Civic Intelligence
A normalized, relational municipal corpus for training, grounding, evaluation, and trustworthy civic AI products.
- Training and RAG
- Evaluation and benchmarks
- Civic-tech and research products
Open AI page →
Tier 1Newsroom & Watchdog Feeds
Early-warning coverage feeds that help reporters and oversight teams catch stories before they are old news.
- Investigative and local newsrooms
- Watchdogs and civic oversight
- Data journalism teams
Open News page →
Tier 1Municipal Consulting & Migrations
Independent municipal services for data exports, portal modernization, migrations, and ADA-aware strategy.
- High-fidelity data exports
- System migrations with confidence
- Portal and archive modernization
Open Munis page →
Tier 1Government Affairs & Lobbying
Track local policy emergence, committee movement, staff packets, amendments, and vote timing across jurisdictions.
- Lobbying firms and trade groups
- Issue advocacy teams
- In-house public affairs
Open Government Affairs page →
Tier 1Multi-Location Compliance
Monitor local rule changes that affect permitting, signage, parking, delivery, operating hours, and enforcement.
- Retail, restaurant, logistics, telecom
- Energy, waste, and EV operators
- Regional compliance teams
Open Compliance page →
Tier 1Site Selection & Expansion
See entitlement, land-use, infrastructure, and political feasibility signals before a market becomes obvious.
- Site selectors and developers
- Corporate real estate teams
- Utilities and hyperscalers
Open Site Selection page →
Tier 1City Attorney & Records Defensibility
Reduce records-related exposure by making the legislative trail more complete, traceable, and defensible.
- City attorneys and clerks
- CIOs and city managers
- Outside counsel on migration and records
Open Legal Risk page →
Tier 1Insurers, Risk Pools & Diligence
A governance and procedural risk signal layer for underwriting, public-finance diligence, and municipal risk review.
- Public entity insurers and reinsurers
- Municipal risk pools
- Public-finance diligence teams
Open Diligence page →
Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets visible from the same foundation
The same underlying data also powers adjacent commercial uses across procurement, philanthropy, research, advisory, publishing, and infrastructure planning.
Procurement & Gov Sales Intelligence
Detect budget discussions, pilot approvals, departmental priorities, contract renewals, and pre-RFP buying signals earlier.
- Capture teams and GovTech vendors
- Procurement intelligence workflows
- Budget and contract monitoring
Grantmaking, Philanthropy & Nonprofit Targeting
Find cities moving on housing, climate, public safety, digital equity, homelessness, and infrastructure before funding decisions are made.
- Foundations and policy nonprofits
- Implementation and outreach planning
- Issue-specific city targeting
Academic Research & Policy Labs
Use structured municipal decision history for longitudinal studies, policy diffusion work, and local governance research.
- Universities and think tanks
- Comparative policy analysis
- Time-aware public-record research
Consulting & Advisory Firms
Power client work in public affairs, infrastructure, market entry, regulatory mapping, and local government strategy.
- Management and regulatory consultants
- Infrastructure and market advisors
- White-label research support
Trade Publishers & B2B Intelligence Products
Build premium newsletters, daily feeds, and sector intelligence products around housing, energy, EVs, data centers, and regulation.
- Vertical media and research products
- Recurring intelligence feeds
- Structured municipal sourcing
Utilities & Grid Planning Stakeholders
Track local actions tied to substations, transmission, EV infrastructure, storage, microgrids, and load-intensive development.
- Utilities and grid consultants
- Interconnection and infrastructure planning
- Power-demand signal monitoring
Tier 3: strong sales angles, lighter packaging
These buyers usually engage through custom pilots, diligence projects, or embedded research workflows, where the value is tied to a specific mandate, client engagement, or transaction.
- Litigation support and expert-witness research for reconstructing legislative history, publication sequence, attachment trails, and vote chronology in disputed municipal matters
- Economic development groups and chambers that need to understand how their region compares on entitlement climate, project momentum, and public-sector responsiveness
- Title, land-use, and entitlement diligence for tracing rezonings, annexations, development agreements, easements, and hearing history tied to specific projects or parcels
- GovTech competitive intelligence and vendor benchmarking to spot migration windows, recurring portal pain, accessibility exposure, and feature gaps cities are signaling in public
GovData supports more than one revenue motion. The same decision-layer foundation can power recurring subscriptions, enterprise data licenses, municipal services, custom diligence, and white-label research products across multiple industries.
Deep domain expertise meets modern AI
GovData is a normalized municipal decision data layer that turns meetings, agenda items, motions, and votes into comparable, queryable objects across jurisdictions.
Today, off-the-shelf AI can read meetings, but it cannot by itself understand how a motion in Phoenix relates to a vote in Pittsburgh. GovData's advantage comes from deep domain modeling combined with modern AI, applied to a problem that has only recently become technically and economically tractable.
- Normalized entities and relationships across jurisdictions
- Time-stamped decision outcomes with full provenance
- Daily deltas with late-arriving updates
- Designed for warehouse, lake, and model-ingestion workflows
"Darius is the only person on the planet who truly understands the Legistar system and its complicated database".
What the dataset actually contains
The value is not just that the records are public. The value is that GovData preserves the legislative chain in a normalized form that can be searched, linked, and distributed nationally.
Meetings
Council, board, committee, planning, and other public meetings with structured metadata, dates, bodies, and jurisdictions.
Agenda items
Agenda items, matter records, topics, and related legislative objects linked to the meetings where they were considered.
Attachments
Staff reports, ordinances, packet documents, exhibits, and supporting files that often contain the real substance behind a decision.
Outcomes
Motions, votes, sponsors, timestamps, and related decision outcomes that make local policy movement traceable over time.
Current dataset scale
The pipeline is already operating at meaningful scale across multiple legislative platforms and custom public portals.
Vendor platforms and custom portals
GovData is designed for the real market: heterogeneous platforms, uneven archives, and public portals that vary by deployment.
Coverage spans major legislative systems and custom municipal portals used by cities, counties, and related public bodies.
- AgendaQuick
- BoardDocs
- BoardEffect
- Boardable
- Catalis
- Civica (Modern.Gov)
- CivicClerk
- CivicPlus
- eScribe
- Granicus
- Hyland (Sire / OnBase)
- iCompass
- IQM2
- JCG Technologies
- Legend Software
- Legistar
- MinuteTraq
- Municipal One
- Municode
- NovusAGENDA
- OnBoard
- OneMeeting
- OpenMeeting
- Peak
- PrimeGov
- Simbli
- Swagit
- TownSuite
- Custom municipal portals
Let's discuss your use case
Whether you're an investor seeking signals, a city looking for better transparency, an AI team needing training data, or a newsroom tracking local government - we'd like to hear from you.
How conversations usually start
Most engagements begin with a short call or email exchange to understand your specific needs: what data you need, what format works best, and what timeline you're working with.
From there, we can structure a pilot, demo, or engagement that fits your situation - whether that's a 2-week signal pilot, a portal demo for your city, or a custom data delivery.
Common starting points:
- Sample data and schema review
- Pilot access to signals or datasets
- Portal demo with your city's data
- Custom data slices for specific regions or topics
Principal: Darius Tajanko, Original Legistar Architect
Email: info@govdataconsulting.com
Phone: (312) 767-4004
Not sure which product fits? Just reach out and describe what you're trying to accomplish. We'll point you in the right direction.