Citizen Index automatically archives public records from city halls — council meeting agendas, building permits, development applications, and public notices. Free to access, updated daily, always linked to the official source.
Municipal records are scattered across portals, overwritten on a schedule, or buried in PDFs. Citizen Index collects, structures, and preserves them — so you can actually find what you're looking for.
Every agenda and set of minutes, with AI-generated plain-language summaries. Search by topic, date, or agenda item. Linked to the official eScribe portal.
Every building permit indexed by address, type, and issue date. The city overwrites its permit report weekly — our archive is the only permanent record.
Rezonings, development permits, variances, and subdivisions grouped into project timelines — from initial application through adoption.
Official public notices from the city — hearings, consultations, and announcements — collected and preserved as they're published.
We're expanding city by city across Metro Vancouver and British Columbia. Each city gets its own searchable archive at its own subdomain.
No manual data entry. No paywalls. Every record traces back to its official source — we're a navigation layer, not a replacement for city hall.
Every day, our pipeline pulls from official city portals — eScribe meeting systems, permit reports, public notice pages.
Raw documents are stored verbatim before parsing. Nothing gets overwritten — we keep what cities delete.
Meeting agendas are summarised by AI and clearly labeled. The model only restates what the agenda says — no hallucination.
A clean static site — no tracking, no ads, no login. Search everything, browse by type, or download the raw data.
From curious residents to professionals who depend on this data for decisions.
Track development near your home. See what council decided. Find out why there's a permit sign on your street.
Research an address before a sale or acquisition. Track rezoning timelines. Monitor competitor project statuses.
Cover local government without spending hours on FOIP requests. Full council history, searchable, linkable.
Study urban planning trends, permit patterns, and development cycles with open CSV/JSON exports going back to 2013.
Every record on Citizen Index is downloadable, machine-readable, and open to AI crawlers. We believe public records should be genuinely public.
All permits, meetings, development projects, and notices available as CSV and JSON. Updated on every daily run.
Browse downloads →Subscribe to new activity — meetings, permits, notices, and development updates — in any RSS reader.
RSS feed →GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended are all explicitly allowed. An llms.txt index helps AI systems understand the data structure.
Every meeting page includes Schema.org Event JSON-LD. All pages have canonical URLs, BreadcrumbList markup, and open graph tags.