No syntax to learn
Type the question the way you would say it out loud. There is nothing to configure and no filter language to remember.
Features
Three ways officials use their city’s record.
One product, three surfaces — asking a question, preparing for a meeting, and understanding the money. All three answer from the same published record, and all three cite it.
Ask Strata
Ask the question you would have asked the clerk.
Ask in plain language and get an answer drawn from your city’s own record, with a citation to the page behind every claim.
“What did we decide about this rezoning in 2019, and what changed since?”
Follow the thread
Ask a follow-up and Strata keeps the context, so you can work backwards through a decision instead of starting over each time.
Every claim cited
Answers carry citations that open the actual page, so you can confirm a figure before you use it in public.
It says when it doesn’t know
When the record cannot answer a question, Strata says so rather than producing something plausible.
Meeting Prep
Walk in briefed on every item.
A brief for the agenda in front of you: each item, what led to it, what the council has already decided, and what it is going to cost.
“What prior decisions affect item 7, and what has it cost so far?”
Built from the packet
Prep is generated from the agenda and packet your city published for that meeting — the same documents everyone else is reading.
History attached
Each item carries the prior votes, amendments and commitments it depends on, so nothing arrives without its background.
The money, stated
Where an item has a financial impact, the figures come with it, drawn from the budget documents rather than estimated.
Questions worth asking
Prep surfaces what looks unresolved or inconsistent in the record, so you can raise it in the room rather than after.
City Snapshot
The city’s finances on one page.
Revenue, spending, the tax rate, what moved since last year, and what the city pays by job title — every figure traced to the budget document it came from.
“How has public safety spending changed over the past five years?”
Levels and movement together
Headline figures carry their own multi-year shape, so a number is never stranded on a single year.
The basis is always stated
Adopted budget and audited actual are both correct and different. Every figure says which one it is drawn on.
Where the money goes
Spending by fund, by department and by line, and the flow from revenue source through to expenditure.
What the city pays
Compensation by job title from the published compensation report — base pay and what the role actually costs.
Across all three
The same rule everywhere: show the record.
Whichever surface you are on, an answer is only as good as the document behind it. Every figure, every summary and every brief links back to the page it came from, in the city’s own published record.
See Strata with your city’s records.
Thirty minutes, your city’s real questions. We will show you the platform live, and what your own record looks like inside it.