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VII. AI & Transcription All plans · no add-on, no add-cost

AI that helps clerks.
Not replaces them.

CivicCA uses Claude (Anthropic) and AssemblyAI to draft summaries, transcribe meetings, check compliance, and answer plain-language questions across your archive. Always with citations. Never with hallucinations.

§ 01 / Where AI helps

Five places
AI saves the clerk time.

Not magic, just well-applied tools — cutting the formatting, drafting, and looking-up time.

01

Build the agenda

AI summaries for staff reports, motion language polish, citation suggestions, description adequacy checks.

Pre-meeting
02

Run the meeting

Real-time transcript with speaker diarization. Live captions for hybrid attendees. AI-generated chapter markers.

During meeting
03

Publish the minutes

AI-drafted minutes from the transcript. Action items extracted. Compliance pre-check. Clerk reviews and publishes.

Post-meeting
§ 02 / AI features

Six AI features.
All plans.

Every feature included on every plan. No premium AI tier, no per-seat charges, no usage caps.

I

AI Summary

One-click plain-language summary of any agenda item, generated from the staff report and attachments.

Claude
II

AI Rewrite

Polish bureaucratic language to plain English while preserving statutory accuracy — for public-facing summaries.

Plain English
III

AI Transcription

Speaker-diarized real-time transcription via AssemblyAI. Used in transcript view and AI minutes drafting.

AssemblyAI
IV

AI Search

Plain-language Q&A across your full archive of agendas, minutes, and reports. Always cites the source meeting.

RAG
V

AI Compliance

Automated checks for description adequacy, motion language, closed-session citations, public-comment rules.

Claude
VI

AI Captions

Live captions during hybrid meetings for accessibility, plus subtitle generation for archived video.

ADA

AI that earns its keep. Every meeting.