About
Council Clarity is a free, independent civic transparency platform. We track every committee decision in plain English and help residents hold their councillors accountable — using nothing but the public record.
Council Clarity is not affiliated with any political party, campaign group, or council. We are not connected to any Independent Group, Residents’ Association, or other party. “Independent” here means editorially and financially separate — not a political label.
We take no advertising and accept no donations from political parties, candidates, campaign groups, or the council. The platform is funded independently so that coverage can remain factual and unaligned.
We use AI to analyse publicly available council documents — committee papers, minutes, and voting records pulled from Kingston’s ModernGov system — and present them in plain English. Every summary links back to the source document so any resident can verify what the council actually wrote.
Collect
We ingest papers, agendas, minutes, and voting records published by Kingston Council.
Summarise
AI produces a plain-English summary of each decision, framed around its impact on residents.
Contextualise
Where relevant, we add factual context: trends, comparisons, vote splits, and what the council chose not to highlight.
Link back
Every summary links to the original source document so nothing has to be taken on trust.
The beta starts in Kingston, so every data source on the site today is about Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. All source material is publicly available.
Who built it
Council Clarity is built by a small AI startup. Our aim is to revolutionise how residents understand what their councils do — by turning the thousands of pages of public record into something a working person can read over a coffee.
Corrections, questions, or tips:
hello@councilclarity.comFOI responses
Public responses to Freedom of Information requests