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Votion Civic — for the public sector

Your jurisdiction's knowledge, working for everyone in it.

Bring the code, the procedures, the records your office already keeps — and turn them into living tools: cited guidance for residents, self-service for businesses, and assistants your own staff trust. Built on the same captured rules Votion already tracks.

For agencies, cities, and the school, water, transit, and special districts around them.

Votion CivicPublished to your communityCity of Boulder, CO
Core
Advisor
Workbench
Data sources
Your data
City code
Meeting records
Fee schedules
Internal procedures
Already captured
State & county rules
Published toolsvisible to residents & businesses
Permit & license guideLIVE
Residents get step-by-step, cited answers from your own code — around the clock.
Business licensing wizardLIVE
Start, expand, or relocate a business — every requirement and fee, sourced.
Grant & program finderDRAFT
Match residents and small businesses to the programs they qualify for.
Ask our proceduresINTERNAL
Staff-only assistant answering from your actual policies and procedures.
1,204 questions answered this month — every one cited to your code, none of them a phone call your counter staff had to take.

How it works

Your data in. Your community served.

Votion already keeps the public rules of your jurisdiction current and cited — the same source the firms and residents around you work from. Civic adds your side of it.

01

Bring your data

Upload or connect what your office already keeps: the municipal code, ordinances, meeting records, fee schedules, forms, internal procedures. It joins the state and county rules Votion already tracks for your jurisdiction — one current, cited body of knowledge.

  • Documents, records, and datasets — no integration project
  • Updates flow through: change the code, the tools follow
  • You control what's public, what's staff-only
02

Shape the tools

Compose the assistants and workflows your office keeps wishing it had — permit guidance, licensing wizards, agenda briefings, intake and routing. Built by your team, on your knowledge, without buying another system.

  • Start from what gets asked at the counter every day
  • Every answer carries its citation and capture date
  • Tools for residents, businesses, and your own staff
03

Publish to your community

Flip a tool live and it's there for the people you serve — self-service, around the clock, grounded in your own code. The same workspace points inward too, so your staff work from the same reality your public sees.

  • Residents and businesses get cited answers, not phone trees
  • Counter and phone load goes down; consistency goes up
  • Your office keeps internal tools on the same source

Why own it

An operating system, not another app.

Most government software sells one tool per problem, priced per module, on a vendor's roadmap. Votion Civic is an AI operating system for your office, built from the ground up — you build on it, you own what you build, and it gets sharper the longer it runs.

The savings

One system, not a stack of contracts.

Every tool your team composes is a procurement you don't run, a license you don't renew, and a call your counter staff doesn't take. The stack shrinks; the budget goes further.

The ownership

Your knowledge. Your tools. Your terms.

The tools are built on your code and your procedures, shaped by your team — not rented from a vendor's roadmap. What your office builds, your office keeps.

The compounding

A system that improves itself.

Every record you add and every question your community asks sharpens it. Update the code once and every tool — public and internal — follows the same day. It compounds instead of decaying.

Buying another system

The usual way
Scope the need, find budgetMonth 0
Write and post the RFPMonth 3
Evaluate vendors, sit the demosMonth 6
Board approval, contract reviewMonth 9
Implementation and change ordersMonth 14
Training, rollout, adoption pushMonth 18

You get one tool, on the vendor's roadmap, with a renewal negotiation already on the calendar.

Composing it on Votion Civic

On Votion Civic
Describe what gets asked at the counterDay 1
Shape the tool on your code and proceduresDay 2
Review the citations, set public or staff-onlyDay 3
Publish to your communityThis week

You get a tool you own, on a system that already knows your jurisdiction — and the next one costs an afternoon, not a fiscal year.

What you can build

Tools for every side of the counter.

Each one grounded in your own code and records, with the citation attached.

FOR RESIDENTS

Permit & license guidance

"Do I need a permit for this?" answered correctly the first time — from your code, with the section cited, before anyone calls the counter.

FOR BUSINESSES

Licensing & opportunity tools

A wizard for starting and expanding a business in your jurisdiction — plus grant and program finders that match locals to what they qualify for.

FOR STAFF

Briefings & procedures

Council agendas, ordinances, and meeting records summarized for staff — and an "ask our own procedures" assistant your team can actually trust.

FOR YOUR OFFICE

Internal operations

Intake, routing, eligibility checks — the small tools your office keeps asking for, built on your own knowledge without buying another system.

Grounded, and defensible

Every answer shows its source and its date.

Votion runs on the actual current rules of your jurisdiction, captured straight from the official record — plus what you bring. Every answer carries its citation and the date it was pulled, so your staff can stand behind it: to a resident, a council member, or an auditor.

See how Votion captures the rules →

Permit & license guide · published by your office
Do I need a permit to add a backyard accessory dwelling unit?
Yes. An ADU in most residential zones requires a building permit and a zoning review for size, setback, and parking under the city's ADU ordinance. Owner-occupancy of one unit on the lot is required.
CITED Boulder Revised Code, Title 9 · pulled June 2026

Who it's for

Built for the public side of the table.

From a single department to a county and the districts around it — pointed at the work your office is responsible for.

Agencies & departments

Licensing, permitting, and regulatory offices that answer the same questions every day.

Cities & counties

Clerk, planning, and operations teams working off ordinances and meeting records.

Special districts

School, water, transit, and fire districts that run lean and can't buy another system.

See it on your jurisdiction.

Tell us which office you run and what gets asked at your counter. We'll show you Votion Civic pointed at your own code.