About Aide
Better prepared.
Still accountable.
You're elected to represent your community. Then you're handed hundreds of pages of agenda papers, densely packed financial appendixes, staff recommendations built on assumptions you haven't had time to test, and a vote to cast under pressure.
Aide bridges that gap. It reads the document the way you would if you had the time: what the decision actually does, who pays, what it contradicts, what it assumes. Every claim links back to the source. The vote stays yours.
01. Not a shortcut. A second reading.
Aide isn't a summariser or a chatbot. It's a structured analysis built on a deliberate methodology: source documents, consequence chains, traceable reasoning. The aim isn't confident-sounding answers. It's a clearer picture of what's in front of you.
02. Not the decision-maker.
Aide doesn't tell you how to vote. It doesn't replace your judgement, your community knowledge, or the professional advice you rely on. The person elected stays responsible for the decision.
03. Built for public trust.
Every claim links to its source document and page. If Aide says a proposal costs ratepayers $2.3M over ten years, you can see where that figure comes from. Privacy, cultural competence, and human accountability are built in: because the output has to survive public scrutiny, not just look good in a briefing.