Most constituent engagement is noise — anonymous online comments your staff can't verify belong to your district, form-letter emails from organized advocacy groups, public comment periods that feel like theater. Debatable gives your office something different: a formal channel where verified residents engage on the record, pre-meeting intelligence that connects public sentiment to what you're deciding, and a searchable archive of every decision and the reasoning behind it.
The Debatable resident app is a free civic engagement tool for the public. It surfaces your meeting agendas, active votes, and public decisions — and lets residents submit a verified position before you vote. Every verified voice they submit feeds directly into the constituent signal your office sees.
Residents follow what your board or council is deciding — active agenda items, recent votes, dollar amounts — without needing to attend every meeting or dig through PDF packets.
Every active topic presents the full debate linked to official documents — ordinance text, planning reports, public comment records. Residents can research it before forming a view, not after.
A resident submits their position before a vote closes. If they're verified, it goes into the constituent signal report your office reads before the meeting. Anonymous comments don't get the same weight — and residents can see that distinction clearly.
Free for residents. No subscription. Works on any phone or browser.
See what residents see →Debatable connects to what your office already publishes — meeting agendas, public documents, recordings — and processes it automatically. No new data entry, no new workflows for staff to learn.
AI summaries of every board packet and agenda. Motions, votes, dollar amounts, and decisions — extracted and linked to the source document page. Searchable for years back.
StandardBefore every major vote, see what verified residents are saying — organized by issue, not raw count. In-district voices always lead. Built to show you signal, not noise.
StandardPlanning cases, permit applications, and public records requests in one place — full history, every response, every deadline, with a complete audit trail.
FreeOpen Meetings Act requirements tracked automatically. Notice deadlines, minutes approval windows, and quorum rules — flagged before they become violations.
FreeRecord the rationale behind every vote. Publish it to the public record so residents see not just what was decided, but why — in plain language, linked to the meeting.
FreeStaff-curated context on every active issue — linked to meeting records and synced to the resident civic app so your community can follow along without attending every meeting.
FreeThe hardest part of constituent engagement isn't getting input — it's knowing whether it represents your actual district. Debatable verifies residents in layers, so your office sees clearly who is speaking and how confident you should be in the signal.
Anyone can participate — no identity confirmation required. Useful for gauging general interest. Shown to staff with an unverified label so context is clear.
Real account confirmed through Google, Apple, phone, or email. Address matched to your jurisdiction. Filters bots and out-of-area submissions without staff involvement.
ID checked in person at a town hall or civic event. A staff member or volunteer confirms residency on the spot — no ID stored, no extra database. Gold badge in your dashboard. This is the input that removes all doubt.
No photos stored. No third-party ID service. Verification happens at your existing civic events — residents come to you already confirmed.
How verification works →Your elected officials walk in with context on what their district is saying. Your clerks have one place to track OMA deadlines and public comment. Your legal staff documents the reasoning behind every vote — on the record, searchable, linked to the meeting it came from. Debatable runs on what your office already publishes. No new data entry. No new systems to learn.
Pre-meeting briefs with resident voices organized by issue. What changed since the last meeting, who is watching, and what the research says — before you walk in the door.
Document every decision with its rationale. Reference everything publicly. Resident questions answered on the record — searchable, linked to the meeting it came from.
Searchable meeting archives, automated OMA deadline tracking, and a formal public comment channel with confirmation — so every resident has a record that they were heard.
Reach out and tell us about your office — how you run meetings, what your staff actually has time for, where constituent engagement breaks down. We'll talk through what a solution looks like for your specific situation.
Start the conversation No pitch deck, no demo script. Just tell us what you're dealing with and we'll talk through whether Debatable is a fit and how it would work for your office.
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