Hamlet for business, our paid service
Know every local decision before it’s made.
Local decisions start at public meetings, long before the vote. We read city council, county board and planning commission meetings in 1,600+ places, so your team doesn’t have to.
- 82,000+meetings read
- 1,600+places with remarks on file
- 2,200+officials with remarks on the record
Who it’s for
For people who need to know what city hall will do next
Government affairs, lobbying and advocacy
Which places are taking up your issue, and which officials have spoken.
Public relations and communications
Who spoke about your client, with the video to show it.
Real estate and homebuilding
How a town has treated projects like yours, before you file.
Retail and site selection
Which towns have taken up stores like yours, and what was said.
Energy and data centers
Which counties are weighing moratoriums on data centers and solar, and which officials have spoken.
Research desks and investors
The meeting record through the API, with a source for every quote.
What you can follow
People, places and the issues you care about
People
Officials, in their own words
What council members, commissioners and board members have said on your issue, with the video at the moment they said it.
See the officialsPlaces
The meetings in the places you follow
Councils, county boards and planning commissions: their meetings and agendas, side by side.
See a placeIssues
Where your issue comes up
How places rank on your issue, against places their size.
See the rankings
How it works
Thousands of governments. No two publish the same way.
Every city, county and board posts its meetings on its own website, video player and agenda system. We turn it into one record.
- 1
Collect
We pull meeting video and agendas from government websites, no two built the same way.
- 2
Read
We transcribe each meeting, speaker by speaker.
- 3
Name the speaker
We match remarks to the officials who said them, checked against the government’s own roster.
- 4
Point to the moment
Search by place or topic, and open the video at the second it was said.
Everything traces back to the record. Every quote links to the meeting it came from, at the moment it was said.
How teams use it
Four jobs it does
Hear it early
Know when your issue first comes up at a meeting, long before a vote.
Follow a place
The meetings and boards in the places your projects depend on.
Know the room
Walk into a hearing knowing what officials have said on the record.
Screen sites
Compare how places have treated projects like yours before you commit.
Two ways in
Use it in Hamlet, or bring it into your own tools
In Hamlet
Every search result, full transcripts and alerts
Every search result and the full transcript, alerts when your issue comes up, and agenda monitoring for the places and topics you follow.
Talk to usThe Hamlet API
The full record in your own systems
Places, boards, meetings, agendas and transcripts as JSON over HTTPS, with a timestamp on every remark.
curl https://api.myhamlet.com/v1/locations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HAMLET_KEY"Show a sample response
{
"data": [
{
"uuid": "5f2b0c3a-1d4e-4a8b-9f6d-2a1c3e4b5d6f",
"type": "CITY",
"name": "Palo Alto",
"state_name": "California",
"state_abbreviation": "CA",
"county_names": ["Santa Clara"],
"created_at": "2025-01-10T00:00:00.000Z",
"updated_at": "2026-05-01T18:22:10.000Z"
}
],
"next_cursor": "eyJ1IjoiMjAyNi0wNS0wMSAxODoyMjoxMCIsImkiOjQyfQ"
}- One key per organization, tied to the places you buy
- updated_since returns only what has changed
- Pages of 1 to 100 with a cursor, and your remaining limit on every response
- Transcripts speaker by speaker, timed to the millisecond
Getting started
Tell us what you need to know. We’ll do the listening.
A person on our team reads every request and sets up a short call to understand the places and issues you follow. Plans start at about $1,000 a month; cost depends on the places, topics and years of meetings you need.
Teams with business before local government may buy Hamlet. They pay for rankings, data and reports, see nothing before the public does, and have no say in what we cover or how we rank anyone. We don’t sell to the officials we cover or to their campaigns.
How Hamlet is paid