An independent civic infrastructure project
All source code & finances public
PorchLite
Civic Transparency
Local government, made legible

What your city is voting on this week—in plain English.

Every week, your city council, county commission, and school board make decisions that affect your taxes, your streets, and your neighborhood. The meeting agendas exist. They're just unreadable. We fix that.

How it works

Public records, made legible. Nothing more.

01 / FETCH

We pull the agendas

Three times a day, we pull every agenda item from your city's official meeting system as soon as it's posted publicly.

02 / SUMMARIZE

We translate the jargon

An AI assistant writes a plain-English summary of each item. What it does. What it costs. Who proposed it.

03 / REVIEW

A human reviews every summary

Before anything is published, a human editor compares the summary against the source documents. Nothing goes out unreviewed.

04 / PUBLISH

You get a Sunday email

One email, every Sunday evening. What's coming up this week. The substantive items flagged. Every source linked.

Our commitments

This project sustains itself on trust. Here's how we earn it.

Costs, to the penny

Every expense. Every donation. Updated live. You can see exactly what it costs to run PorchLite and where every dollar comes from.

See the ledger

Driven by what cities ask for

We don't decide where to expand next. You do. Request coverage for your city, see what others have requested, and pledge to fund the work.

Request your city

Open source, end to end

The whole codebase is on GitHub under a free software license. Anyone can read it, fork it, run their own instance, or contribute.

Browse the repo

The week's votes, before they happen.

One email a week. What's on the agenda, what it does, what it costs. Substantive items flagged. Every source linked. No tracking pixels, no marketing, no upsells.