How AI can cover every city council meeting in your town
Council agendas run hundreds of pages. Here's how larkfeed watches meetings and permit filings and turns them into drafts you approve.
Every local publisher knows city council meetings matter. Zoning changes, new developments, budgets, road projects. This is the news that changes how people live in a town. It's also the news that gets skipped most, because covering it properly means reading a packet that can run hundreds of pages, or sitting through a three-hour meeting video.
Most small teams don't have that time. So the meetings go uncovered, and readers find out about the new data center or the rezoning after it's done.
What if it was easy?
larkfeed watches the meetings for you. For each city you choose, it pulls in council and school board agendas and meeting videos, reads them, and writes a draft about what was actually decided. The draft lands in your inbox in larkfeed with its sources attached. You read it, fix what you want, and publish.
The same idea works for permit filings. When a business files to build in your town, larkfeed can spot the filing and write a draft about what's coming, using what the permit says. Picture a national chicken chain filing for a new location on Main Street. The draft is waiting for you, often before anyone else has the story.
Why a person still approves everything
AI is good at reading a 300-page packet and finding the three decisions that matter. It is not the one who should decide what your publication says. So larkfeed never publishes on its own. Every automatic draft waits for a person, and you can see the sources it used.
That's the whole idea behind larkfeed: AI does the grunt work, you keep the judgment.
What this changes for a small team
- You cover more. Meetings that were never covered get a story.
- You're first more often. Permit filings turn into stories while they're still news.
- You build trust. Readers learn your site is where local decisions get explained.
- You get found. Structured, sourced stories about local decisions are exactly what Google and AI assistants look for when someone asks what's happening in town.
What's next
Meetings and permits are the start. We're building more of the public record into larkfeed, including local government notices, real estate and obituaries, so your site can become the first place people check for anything local.
Want to see which meetings and filings larkfeed could watch in your market? Book a call.
