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Too many documents
Following everything takes time, method, and a memory that a single citizen cannot always have.
Open-source civic infrastructure
The municipality publishes.
You don't have
the time.
OpenCivTech watches public records, organizes them, and flags what deserves attention. The source stays official. Reading it finally becomes possible.
Transparency · memory · participation
OpenCivTech / WatchdogLive preview
ATRI · TODAY
Updated daily from the official source
47new records
12signals to read
06public works
03awards
● Signal · new direct award linked to 2 previous records
The problem
Records are published every day. Who is watching them?
Determinations, resolutions, awards, payments. The information exists, but it is often fragmented across PDFs and written in language that is hard to work through.
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Isolated information
One record points to another. An amount to a procedure. The connections stay hidden between the pages.
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Little capacity to scrutinize
Formal transparency is not enough if no one can turn it into shared understanding.
The product
Not an archive.
An observation system.
First the data, then the interpretation. OpenCivTech builds a searchable memory of the public notice board and makes relationships, recurrences, and changes visible.
Official notice board
Acquisition
Data extraction
Classification
Linking records
Signals
Citizen
The primary source always remains the document published by the administration. OpenCivTech makes it searchable, linkable, and readable.
Watchdog
You don't have to read everything.
You need to know what to look at.
Every signal is an invitation to verify, not a verdict. The system shows the document, the context, and the path to go deeper.
New awards
Amounts, procedure, contractor, and linked records.
Amounts, procedure, contractor, and linked records.
Money that moves
Payments, grants, and variations to follow.
Payments, grants, and variations to follow.
Stories that continue
A timeline that reconstructs the life of a project.
A timeline that reconstructs the life of a project.
“The source is public. The ability to understand it should be just as public.”
AI with responsibility
Intelligence helps you read. It does not decide what is true.
AI can summarize a record, suggest connections, and translate bureaucratese. But every piece of information stays anchored to the source and separated from interpretation.
Source first
Original document always visible.
Clear trail
Distinction between fact, calculation, and hypothesis.
Human oversight
An invitation to look closer, never a verdict.
First node
Open Atri is the starting point.
One municipality, one community, a first shared memory of administrative action. From here the model can be replicated, improved, and adopted elsewhere.
Explore the Atri node ↗Local
A real context to observe with care.
Replicable
A method designed for other municipalities.
Shared
A community that contributes to data quality.
Federation
A network of nodes. Not a center that controls everything.
Each community keeps its own voice and its own attention. Together, nodes share tools, code, and civic knowledge.
Discover the architectureOpen source
Code is a civic tool.
Transparent, inspectable, improvable. OpenCivTech is built to be used by communities, not to lock them inside a platform.
Reuse
Bring the Watchdog to your municipality.
Verify
Check how data is transformed.
Contribute
Propose corrections and new features.
The next node could be yours
Bring the Watchdog to your community.
Are you a journalist, a civic group, an association, or a curious person? Start from a concrete question about your municipality.
Let's talk →First experiment
One municipality. One week. One question.
Pick a section of the notice board, collect the records, reconstruct the links, and publish what you have verified. The product is born from a real use case.
Manifesto
Transparency
is collective work.
We believe in tools that bring people closer to public decisions. In readable data. In documented questions. In technology that increases a community's capacity to care for the place where it lives.