AI meeting minutes for city councils.

Paste the link to your council meeting. Govably's VoicePrint technology recognizes every councilmember, every motion is written out properly with the roll call by name, and the official minutes come out in your city's style. What's left for you is a fifteen-minute proofread.

Write your minutes in minutes, not hours.

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What you get

What city clerks get from every council meeting

One platform from recording to published minutes, with unlimited users for your clerk's office.

Every councilmember recognized by VoicePrint, every meeting

VoicePrint technology learns each councilmember. Confirm a speaker once and they are named automatically at every meeting after. Each confirmation makes recognition more accurate, so you never re-label your councilmembers again.

Proper motion formatting

Every motion written the way minutes should read: who moved, who seconded, the motion language, how each councilmember voted by name, and the result. Failed, tabled and withdrawn motions and abstentions are recorded too.

Ordinances and resolutions written up right

Each ordinance and resolution is recorded with its title as read into the record, the motion, the second and the vote, in the language your council uses.

Minutes in your house style

Your headings, your motion language, your action lines. The minutes read like the ones you already file, finished in Govably's full document editor with no copying into Word.

A Client Success Manager who has written minutes

Your Client Success Manager has local government experience and has written minutes. They set up your format and your council, and stay with you. We let actual intelligence check the artificial intelligence.

Public portal with searchable transcript

Publish the minutes, the recording and a searchable transcript to your public portal. Residents click any line and the video jumps to that moment.

How it works

How Govably works for a city council

Paste a link

From recording to transcript, nothing to download.

Paste a link from YouTube, Zoom, Vimeo, Granicus, Swagit, TelVue, Cablecast or CivicPlus, or upload the file. Govably transcribes the whole meeting with unlimited speakers: councilmembers, staff, presenters and residents at the podium.

VoicePrint speaker recognition

Your councilmembers are already named.

The first time, you confirm who is who. After that VoicePrint recognizes each councilmember at every meeting, and recognition gets sharper every time you confirm a speaker. Other tools make you re-label speakers every single meeting. Govably remembers them.

Finished minutes

Review the flagged spots, approve, publish.

Govably places each item of business on the meeting timeline, finds every motion, second and vote, and writes the official minutes in your house style. You review only the spots it flags, make any edits in the document editor, and publish to your public portal, where residents click through the transcript to any moment in the recording.

“I looked at the comparisons that you had, based on actual minutes and the AI minutes, and they are right on.”
Charlene Takesian, Vice Chair, Board of Selectmen, Town of Pelham, NH
Who it's built for

Built for every city council, in every state.

✓ Councils under any form of government: mayor and council, council and manager, or commission
✓ Planning commissions, zoning boards of appeal and every other board or committee your clerk's office keeps minutes for
✓ City clerks and city secretaries, with unlimited users for the staff who need access
✓ Cities that keep CivicPlus, Granicus, Swagit, Cablecast, YouTube or Zoom for video and add Govably for the minutes
✓ Minutes set up for your state's open meetings law and your charter's format
FAQ

Common questions from city councils

Does Govably record ordinances and resolutions correctly?
Yes. Govably records each ordinance and resolution with its title as read into the record, the motion, the second and the vote, written in your council's own minutes language.
Does Govably follow how our council makes motions?
Yes. Every motion is formatted properly: who made it, who seconded it, the motion language, and how each councilmember voted by name, including roll-call votes, with the result. Motions that fail, are tabled or are withdrawn are recorded too.
How is public comment handled?
Govably transcribes everyone who speaks, with unlimited speakers, so every public commenter is in the transcript. The minutes summarize public comment in the format your city uses.
How does Govably know which councilmember is speaking?
Govably's VoicePrint technology identifies each speaker and remembers each councilmember from meeting to meeting. Confirm a speaker once, and at the next meeting they are already named.
What does Govably cost?
You get clear pricing on your first demo. Every plan includes unlimited users.
Can you show us Govably on one of our own meetings?
Yes. After a quick demo, if you feel like it's a fit, we write minutes from one of your own meetings and go through them with you. After that, your Client Success Manager, who has written minutes, sets up your format and stays with you.

Comparing options for your city?

Govably vs ClerkMinutes → · Govably + CivicPlus → · Govably vs Word →

See it for yourself.

Start with a quick demo. If you feel like it's a fit, we write minutes from one of your own meetings and go through them with you.

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