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What happened at last night's meeting?

Nantucket's public meetings, searchable and readable. Every vote, every discussion, every decision — cited back to the exact moment in the source video. Free for everyone.

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Ask about meetings, decisions, votes...

The information is public. Finding it shouldn't be a full-time job.

Nobody has time to watch a 3-hour meeting

Your town records every meeting. Almost nobody watches them. The decisions that affect your street, your neighborhood, your property are in there somewhere.

The answer exists. It's just buried.

Zoning decisions, budget votes, planning board approvals — all of it gets recorded and uploaded somewhere. CivicIndex makes it searchable in plain English.

Your town doesn't always speak your language

Ask your question in Portuguese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, or Mandarin. Get an answer in the same language, sourced from the same public record everyone else has access to.

How CivicIndex Works

From meeting recording to searchable answers in three simple steps

Meetings get recorded

Select Board, Planning Board, Zoning, Finance, Conservation — every public meeting on record.

Every word gets transcribed and indexed

Timestamped, searchable, tied to the agenda item it came from.

You ask. You get the answer, and the source.

Every answer links back to the exact moment in the video it came from. No black box.

What CivicIndex does

Natural Language Search

Ask anything the way you'd actually say it. You get a direct answer, not a list of PDFs to dig through.

100+ Languages

Break language barriers. Residents ask and receive answers in their preferred language, while searching your English transcripts.

Verified Citations

Every answer includes clickable timestamps linking to the exact moment in the source video. Full transparency.

Auto-Transcription

Upload meeting videos and we handle transcription, speaker detection, and indexing automatically. No manual work needed.

Meeting Summaries

After each meeting, a plain-English summary gets published automatically. Catch up in two minutes instead of two hours.

Weekly Newsletters

Automated email digests keep engaged residents informed about recent meetings and decisions. Multi-language support included.

Common Questions

Everything you need to know about getting started

Yes. You get 5 searches without an account. Sign up with your email (no password needed) and you get unlimited access. It's completely free.

Every answer comes from official public meeting recordings — Select Board, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Finance Committee, Conservation Commission, and more. We transcribe the audio, index it, and let you search it. Nothing is made up.

Every answer includes a citation with a timestamp linking to the exact moment in the source video. You can verify anything yourself. If we don't have enough information to answer your question, we'll tell you instead of guessing.

Yes. Ask in Portuguese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Mandarin, or any of 100+ languages. You'll get your answer in the same language, sourced from the English meeting transcripts.

We're currently indexing Nantucket public meetings — Select Board, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Finance Committee, Conservation Commission, and others. New meetings are added regularly after they're recorded.

CivicIndex is an independent civic technology project. We're not affiliated with the Town of Nantucket or any municipal government. We use publicly available meeting recordings to make local government more accessible.

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