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04 · For staff

Staff are amplified, not replaced.

Every AI pitch to government begins with 'we'll automate everything.' That is exactly the wrong pitch for a clerk's office, where the value of the work is in the judgment. CivicOS drafts — your staff decides.

Requests auto-routed
70%
Clerk hrs/wk recovered
40
Outputs requiring approval
100%
Audit log retention
365 days
The central idea

Every citizen-facing output passes through a human hand.

This is not a UI detail. It is the governance model. Draft, classify, route, search, summarize — CivicOS agents do all of it. But nothing leaves the building until a staff member clicks approve. That click is captured. That click is exportable. That click is the difference between supervised AI and the AI demo you're rightly skeptical of.

  • · Default action on every output is "approve" — not "auto-send"
  • · Edit-before-approve is first-class, not buried behind three clicks
  • · Every approval records the reviewer, the timestamp, and the edit diff
  • · Suspicious sources (e.g. Gemini low-confidence answers) are flagged for review
Approval required
human gate
Send response to FOIL request #FR-2024-0891?
Dear Mr. Tannen — attached please find 43 pages responsive to your request for Council minutes between January 2019 and June 2021. Personal identifiers have been redacted per§87(2)(b) of the Public Officers Law. Feel free to reach the Town Clerk with any questions.
Redactions
14 flagged
Sources
Drive · 7
Review time
~8 min
The unified queue

One queue for every channel your residents actually use.

Portal submissions. Emails to the Clerk's office. Voicemail transcriptions. Facebook DMs. A Thursday-morning ride-along with the DPW. They all land in the same queue — pre-classified, pre-clustered, pre-drafted. Your staff triages decisions, not envelopes.

See the agents behind the queue
Clerk queue
6 open · 2 need approval
Gemini triage on
P1
Water main break · Oak St.
via phone
drafted
2m ago
P2
FOIL · Council minutes 2019–21
via portal
draft ready
6m ago
P2
Pothole cluster · Elm & 3rd
via portal
routed · DPW
12m ago
P3
Noise complaint · 142 Pine
via email
awaiting approval
28m ago
P3
Block party permit · Maple
via portal
gathering intake
41m ago
P4
Tree-trim request · 88 Spruce
via facebook
queued
1h ago
Updated 11:42 am · auto-refresh 30savg. first-touch · 4.2 min
Meeting intelligence

The Select Board meeting ended at 10:47 pm. The public recap is in your review queue at 11:03.

Summaries, action items with named owners, a plain-language public recap, social posts, a newsletter blurb — all drafted from the recording and agenda. Staff reviews, edits, approves, or discards. The first version always exists. That's the shift.

4h
Before
20m
After
Drafts waiting
Meeting intelligence
Select Board — May 14, 2025
2h 47m audio
Decisions
  • · Approved $42k paving contract — Elm & 3rd
  • · Adopted amended noise ordinance §5.4
  • · Tabled short-term-rental permit revision
Action items
  • · Clerk → post §5.4 public notice by 5/17
  • · DPW → schedule paving for week of 6/2
  • · Legal → draft STR comparison memo by 5/28
Public recap — ready for approval

The Select Board met Tuesday and approved repaving on Elm & 3rd, passed a revised noise ordinance, and postponed short-term-rental changes pending further review. Next meeting: May 28.

Agent audit log
today · 47 events
11:42FOIL Agent · drafted responsem.donovan approved
11:28Permit Agent · checked conflict calendarauto · allowed
11:14Meeting Agent · generated recapj.okafor approved
10:55Constituent Agent · merged 4 reportsauto · reviewed
10:31Knowledge Agent · answered SOP querycited §4.2
Every action, logged

Your FOIL Officer will love us. Your attorney will sleep.

Every agent read, every draft, every approval, every edit — captured and retained for the configurable audit window. Exportable as PDF or CSV. Filterable by user, agent, date, data source. Designed by people who have actually sat through a Town Board audit.

The complete staff console

Six capabilities your team will use before their first coffee.

01

AI triage queue

Every inbound request — portal, email, phone transcription, Facebook DM — lands in one queue, pre-classified and pre-drafted.

70% auto-routed
02

Human-in-the-loop gates

No citizen-facing output leaves the building without a staff click. The default is 'approve,' not 'auto-send.' Trust is architectural.

Every outbound message
03

Content with AI writing assist

Draft a notice, a public hearing announcement, or an alert. The assistant cites the source ordinance and suggests plain-language edits.

Reading level 6–8
04

Meeting summarization

Board meeting ends. Ten minutes later, a summary, action items with owners, public recap, and social posts are in your review queue.

4 hrs → 20 min
05

Audit logs everywhere

Every agent action, every approval, every data read. Exportable. Reviewable. Ready for the auditor.

365-day retention
06

Role-based access control

Clerks see clerk things. Attorneys see attorney things. Police data stays behind CJIS-compliant walls. Governed by your IT team.

14 pre-built roles