Independent civic briefs Vol. 1 · No. 1 · 2026
Packet Press linocut mark: a folded packet beside a small press Packet Press Public packets, structured briefs

Company #2 · Civic documents

The packet is already public. The week should not be a scavenger hunt.

Packet Press reads agendas, minutes, and staff PDFs that cities already posted, then returns a structured weekly brief: what moved, who voted, when it happens next, and the link back to the source page.

No login. No marketplace bidding. No inventory. Digital briefs from public records only.

Stacks of manila meeting packets on a green linen desk in afternoon light
The work is packets already on a public site — not a private inbox, not a scraped home address list.

Who this is for

People who already hunt meeting PDFs by hand and want a calmer week, not another dashboard login.

Local reporters

Monday should not start with twelve tabs of 80-page packets. The brief is a map: motions, votes, dates, source links.

Civic groups

Track what actually landed on an agenda without pretending to be the city clerk. Every line cites the public page.

Small researchers

Real-estate and neighborhood researchers who need the public record, not a rumor thread.

What you get

A brief you can read, print, or download. Not a pentest. Not a “complete coverage of every city.”

Deliverable

Weekly civic brief

  • Item title as the source published it
  • Agency or body, date, and document type
  • Direct URL back to the public page
  • JSON and CSV copies of the same table

See the product page

Honest limits

What this is not

  • Not a government publisher
  • Not legal advice
  • Not a login-walled records request shop
  • Not Money Hunter’s CSV / site-review storefront

Publish remains owner-gated. The live sample is a demonstration from public Federal Register items while local city intake is tested.

HOLDExternal publish
DENYMarketplace writes
ALLOWPublic-source intake
PUBLICAlready-posted packets

Those grants are the public, sanitized picture of how Packet Press is run on Company OS. They are not a sales forecast.