Meridian · AI analysts
Staff ask in their own words and get an answer in seconds, with the source, the period and how certain it is.
In use
Screen recording of the live product. The answer names its source, period and population.
Capabilities
Answers with sources
Every answer names its measure, period and population, says how it has changed, and says when the data cannot decide.
Department diagnostics
Where a department's money goes compared with where the need is, and a ranked list of opportunities, each with an estimated value.
Program evaluations
Who a program reached, whether outcomes changed compared with similar places it did not reach, and whether its claimed savings hold up, as a short brief council can read before the vote.
The city brain
What the city has decided, tried and learned, from council records and staff documents. Spark asks staff a few short questions every so often to keep it current.
Questions
- Public healthWhich neighborhoods carry the most uninsured adults, and are our clinics near them?
- Public safetyWhich blocks account for most repeat incidents this year?
- TransportationWhich 5% of blocks carry the most injury crashes?
- Housing and developmentWhere is housing cost burden rising fastest?
- Budget and financeWhich programs up for renewal can show they worked?
- City councilIs the program up for renewal working?
On the same model
Platform
Zenith
Gathers a city's public data into one model.
Budgets, council records, service requests, state and federal data and satellite imagery, matched to every block and month, with an estimate for each measure from past years to the present.
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Simulation Pilot
Parallax
Tests proposals on synthetic residents before funding.
Compare a proposed program with its alternatives on stand-in residents built from census data and the city's model, before any money is committed.
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Commitments Pilot
Sidereal
Holds every funded program to the result it promised.
Before money moves, each program gets a written commitment: the result, how it is measured, the starting point, the target and date, and who owns it. Sidereal tracks delivery and results against it.
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