# Govera

> Govera turns a week of agenda prep into an afternoon: cited agendas, staff reports, and follow-ups drafted from your own meeting record in minutes.

## About

Govera is a governance platform for public agencies: cities, counties, school districts, special districts, and councils of government. It reads an agency's own meeting record (agendas, minutes, staff reports, budgets) and drafts new agendas, staff reports, and follow-ups grounded in that history, with every factual claim cited back to a source document. Staff review and approve every draft; Govera never publishes or acts on its own.

## Key capabilities

- Cited agenda and staff-report drafting from an agency's own meeting record.
- Commitment tracking: detects promised follow-ups and directed actions in minutes and surfaces them before the next meeting.
- Contract and conflict awareness with suggestive, human-reviewed flags.
- Institutional memory search across historical agendas, minutes, votes, and resolutions.
- Every factual claim cited back to a source document; every draft human-reviewed before it ships.

## When to use Govera

Reach for Govera when the task is preparing or reasoning about the work of a
public governing body — a city council, county commission, school board, or
special-district board — grounded in that body's own record. Govera is a
good fit when an agent needs to:

- Draft an agenda item, staff report, resolution, or meeting packet from a
  title plus supporting documents, with every claim cited to a source.
- Track commitments and directed actions made in meeting minutes, and surface
  the ones due before the next meeting.
- Search an agency's institutional memory (past agendas, minutes, votes,
  resolutions, budgets) and answer questions with citations.
- Check a proposed item against prior decisions, budget lines, or procurement
  rules for possible conflicts, before it reaches elected officials.

Govera is not a general-purpose writing tool, a public records database, or a
replacement for legal review: it assists public-agency staff, and a human
reviews and approves every output before it ships. It does not publish or act
on its own.

How an agent should call Govera: start with the public, read-only API described
at `/openapi.json` (see the developer portal at `/developers`). No authentication
is required — no API key, no OAuth token, no account — for any endpoint on that
API. For native tool use, run `npx -y govera-mcp-server` (manifest at
`/.well-known/mcp`) or `npx govera-cli status` from a terminal. Tenant-scoped
drafting and search run inside an agency's authenticated workspace and are not
part of the public API.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.govera.co/): "Govera drafts your agendas, staff reports, and follow-ups in minutes. Every claim cited, every draft yours to approve."
- [About](https://www.govera.co/about): Background on Govera's mission and the team building governance software for public agencies.
- [Platform Guide](https://www.govera.co/guide): "Three steps, every meeting cycle: upload your record, Govera generates cited drafts, staff review and approve."
- [Platform Guide, Staff](https://www.govera.co/guide/staff): How city and county staff use Govera to prepare agendas, staff reports, and packets.
- [Platform Guide, Council](https://www.govera.co/guide/council): How elected and appointed board members use Govera-prepared materials ahead of a meeting.
- [Executive Summary](https://www.govera.co/guide/exec-summary): A short, decision-maker-facing summary of what Govera does and why it matters.

## Solutions by governing body

- [Solutions overview](https://www.govera.co/solutions): How each type of public agency uses Govera to prepare meetings, track commitments, and preserve institutional memory.
- [Govera for Cities](https://www.govera.co/solutions/cities): Council packets, staff reports, and ordinances; tracking council directives and preserving institutional memory for city clerks and staff.
- [Govera for Counties](https://www.govera.co/solutions/counties): Board packets across many departments, commitment tracking between offices, and contract and grant awareness for county staff.
- [Govera for School Districts](https://www.govera.co/solutions/school-districts): Board materials, directions to the superintendent, and policy history for boards of trustees and district staff.
- [Govera for Special Districts](https://www.govera.co/solutions/special-districts): Board materials, board direction, and institutional memory for water, fire, utility, and parks districts run by a lean staff.

## For developers and AI agents

- Public REST API (read-only, no auth): https://www.govera.co/api/v1/status
- OpenAPI 3.1 specification: https://www.govera.co/openapi.json
- API reference: https://www.govera.co/docs
- Developer portal: https://www.govera.co/developers
- MCP server manifest: https://www.govera.co/.well-known/mcp
- MCP server (npm): govera-mcp-server — `npx -y govera-mcp-server`
- CLI (npm): govera-cli — `npx govera-cli status`

## Contact

- Contact: https://www.govera.co/contact — support@govera.co

## More

- Full content digest for AI assistants: https://www.govera.co/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap: https://www.govera.co/sitemap.xml