If you live in a town
Your town decides a lot. Almost none of it reaches you.
Not because anyone is hiding it. The minutes are published, the agenda is posted, the ordinance is on file — spread across a dozen PDFs, in reverse date order, with no index. Town Communicator reads all of it so you can ask one question instead.
Free for residents. No advertising, ever — and we're not the town, so nobody edits what you find.
The questions people actually ask
Ordinary questions with buried answers.
“What are they building behind my house?”
Search the parcel and see every meeting, application and decision that mentions it — with the date each one happened and a link to the document.
“Do I need a permit for a fence?”
Ask in plain language. The answer quotes the ordinance and links to the page it came from, so you can check it before you rely on it.
“How long has this been going on?”
A topic page collects every mention across years of minutes into one timeline — the thing no document contains, because each one only knows about itself.
“Did they ever vote on that?”
Follow a topic and get told when it comes back — rather than finding out from a neighbour after the vote.
“What did I miss at the meeting?”
Every meeting gets a plain-language summary of what was decided, with the minutes attached. Read it in two minutes instead of forty.
“Is my street in the flood zone?”
The map draws your county's own flood, Critical Area and zoning layers over the parcel you're standing on.
Why you can trust the answer
Every answer shows its work.
The answers are written by AI, and AI gets things wrong — so the product is built so you never have to take its word for it. Every answer cites the exact document and page behind it, one click away. When the record doesn't contain the answer, it says so instead of guessing. That refusal is deliberate, and it is the part we care most about getting right.
What we won't pretend. We're not the town, and nothing here is official. Some older documents are scans we can't read yet, so they're listed but not searchable. If a decision matters to you — a permit, a deadline, a legal requirement — check it against the town, and use our link to the original to do it.
Your town may not be in yet
You don't have to wait for them.
A town doesn't have to sign up, pay us, or agree to anything for its public records to be searchable — they're public records. So residents usually arrive before their town does. Right now there are 8,464 documents and 2,109 meetings in the record.
If yours isn't covered, tell us and we'll look at what it publishes. And if your town would rather we didn't, they can say so and we stop — that's a promise we've already kept for real towns, not a policy page.