An example of our civic data accessibility work. Built for a civic engagement organization, this platform ingests Congressional bills daily, summarizes them with Claude (Anthropic's AI), and presents them in plain English. The technical pattern of pulling from government data sources, applying AI under human oversight, and surfacing results for non-expert audiences generalizes across legislative tracking, municipal records, regulatory filings, and public meeting summaries.
The platform runs on Flask and PostgreSQL, deployed on Railway with scheduled jobs for daily bill ingestion from Congress.gov. Key design decisions included a two-tier summary format to balance accessibility with depth, rate limiting and retry logic for reliable API interactions, and a planned multi-dimensional reviewer feedback system so that human oversight can continuously improve summary quality. API cost monitoring was built in from the start to track Claude API usage and ensure sustainable operation at scale.