Aide

Know what you're voting on.

You have one evening. The agenda has three hundred pages. Aide reads every page and runs the forensic analysis you would, if you had the time.

A 300-page agenda pack becomes five answers: what's tracking, what's at risk, what's unmeasured, questions to ask, and what you're endorsing. A 300-page agenda pack becomes five answers: what's tracking, what's at risk, what's unmeasured, questions to ask, and what you're endorsing.

You can't control what's in the agenda. You can control how ready you are.

Aide is your AI analyst for NZ council agendas, plans and reports. It masters the details so you walk into every meeting briefed, backed up, and ready to vote.

The governance reality

Sunday night
With Aide
Hours of your weekend scanning dense PDFs, hoping nothing important is buried.
A forensic read of every page, referenced against council plans and previous agendas, without losing your weekend.
An unbudgeted risk sitting on page 280 of an appendix you didn't reach.
Financial exposure flagged, with the page cited so you can check it yourself.
Feeling pressured to vote on staff assumptions you haven't had time to test.
Evidence-backed, constructive questions to ask in the chamber.

What councillors say

Aide is an incredibly useful tool for elected members who want to properly interrogate what is put in front of them without having to spend every waking minute reading hundreds of pages of council documents.
Councillor, Upper North Island

Aide is an incredibly useful tool for elected members who want to properly interrogate what is put in front of them without having to spend every waking minute reading hundreds of pages of council documents.

What I value most is that it doesn’t simply summarise a report. It analyses it. It identifies risks, picks up inconsistencies, highlights what is missing, and asks the questions that can easily get buried beneath pages of council reporting.

Importantly, it can also take previous decisions and current plans into account. That matters because council decisions rarely sit in isolation. Understanding what was previously promised, approved or budgeted for can completely change how you read the report in front of you today.

I particularly like its ability to scrutinise progress and monitoring reports. These documents can tell you that work is “progressing” or an initiative has been “delivered”, but the real accountability question is: did it actually achieve what it was supposed to achieve? Aide is very good at identifying when the evidence, measures or outcomes needed to answer that question are missing.

The page-linked references are also important. I don’t want AI simply telling me what to think. I want it pointing me to the evidence so I can check the source, apply my own judgement and decide what questions I need to ask.

For councillors, time is a serious constraint. We can receive enormous agendas, supplementary papers, reports and updates, often while dealing with constituent issues, meetings and everything else that comes with the role. A tool that helps you get quickly to the issues that deserve closer scrutiny doesn’t replace the responsibility of an elected member — it helps you exercise that responsibility better.

For me, that is Aide’s real value: better scrutiny, better questions and better-informed decision-making, without requiring councillors to spend every waking minute trying to find the important detail buried on page 347.

Councillor, Upper North Island

What your brief contains

What's tracking or delivered

Core progress on major deliverables — filtering out routine updates.

What's at risk

Unbudgeted liabilities, penalty deadlines, and hidden financial exposures.

What's unmeasured or missing

Missing baseline metrics, unquantified assumptions, and missing success criteria.

Questions to ask

Precise, dispassionate questions tied directly to agenda citations.

What you're endorsing by accepting

A plain-English summary of what a “Yes” vote commits council resources to.

The context you wish you could remember

Illustration: a highlighted line on today's agenda connected by a thread to matching points in past meetings, the Annual Plan and the Long Term Plan. Illustration: a highlighted line on today's agenda connected by a thread to matching points in past meetings, the Annual Plan and the Long Term Plan.

What was promised

Aide checks today's papers against your council's adopted annual plan and long term plan.

What's tracked or stalled

It reads your recent meetings too, and shows what has moved since — and what hasn't.

What's quietly disappeared

Items that vanish from the record get flagged, not forgotten.

How does Aide compare to ChatGPT or Gemini?

Nothing gets past it

A chatbot condenses whatever you paste into it. Aide reads every page of the pack — the figures, the appendices, the officer assumptions — and does the analysis a forensic analyst would.

It gets to know your council

Aide keeps the record: prior meetings, adopted plans, its own earlier briefs. Every pack you brief adds to it, so the tenth brief sees things the first one couldn't. A chatbot starts from zero every time you open it.

It doesn't tell you what to think

Every claim shows its source — the item or page — so you can check it yourself in seconds. When Aide can't verify something, it flags the gap rather than filling it. A chatbot always has an answer; Aide never guesses.

See how Aide compares to other AI tools →

Built for NZ local government trust

Aide never offers political opinions or tells you how to vote. Your judgment and community knowledge stay entirely yours.

Nothing you upload is used to train the world's AI. Your raw uploaded PDFs are deleted immediately after processing. Aide securely retains only the synthesized insights and its growing memory of your council’s historical decisions.

Know what you're voting on — before you vote.

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