Search thousands of city council, planning commission, and government meetings. Surface discussions about zoning, real estate, and community issues.
We index government meetings across 48 states — from city councils to planning commissions. Hover over the map to explore.
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Search across thousands of meeting transcripts. Find mentions of specific companies, projects, addresses, or topics.
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From real estate developers to government affairs teams, professionals use Hamlet to stay informed about local government discussions.
Track zoning changes, monitor competitor projects, and understand community sentiment on new developments.
Identify expansion opportunities, track utility discussions, and monitor permitting timelines.
Track zoning changes, competitor permits, and expansion opportunities across target markets.
Find public testimony, zoning disputes, and municipal decisions to strengthen case research.
Monitor policy discussions, track community issues, and find opportunities to engage.
Most regulatory data is locked in PDFs, buried in meeting minutes, or simply doesn't exist. Hamlet changes that. We score every city in our network on how they actually govern — measured from the public record, updated daily.
Not press releases. Not promises. What's happening in the room.
The Regulatory Velocity Index (RVI) ranks cities by how efficiently they move projects through the approval pipeline — time to resolution, procedural complexity, approval rates, and predictability. High-RVI cities get things done.
The Regulatory Friction Index (RFI) measures the opposite: how much resistance projects encounter. Deferral rates, opposition frequency, contentious debate. High-RFI cities signal risk — or opportunity, depending on your strategy.
Together, they tell you whether a city is open for business or stuck in committee.
“How fast does this city get things done?”
Measures how efficiently a city moves projects from proposal to approval — time to resolution, procedural complexity, approval rates, and predictability.
Fast approvals, predictable process
Slow pipeline, frequent delays
“How much pushback do projects face here?”
Measures the resistance projects encounter — opposition frequency, contentious debate, deferral rates, and how often proposals get stalled.
Frequent opposition, heated debate
Smooth sailing, community support
Every day, Hamlet analyzes thousands of public meetings to produce Power Rankings — a data-driven snapshot of how local governments are actually performing. Not press releases. Not promises. What's happening in the room.
Each card below includes an AI-generated editorial blurb explaining why a city ranks where it does — the zoning battles, the fast-tracked developments, the patterns that don't show up in any other dataset.
Blurbs generated from transcript analysis and scoring data. See how we score cities →
PA
“Pittsburgh processes regulatory matters in just 3 days compared to the 24-day national average.”
AZ
“Pinetop-Lakeside processes permits in 11 days, less than half the national average, ranking second among analyzed cities.”
KY
“Lexington processes regulatory matters in 12 days, half the national average, while maintaining a perfect approval rate.”
AZ
“Peoria processes regulatory matters in 13 days, nearly half the national average of 24 days.”
MO
“Kansas City processes permits in 17 days compared to the 24-day national average, ranking 5th among cities studied.”
VA
“Hampton processes regulatory matters in 15 days, nine days faster than the national average of 24 days.”
Regulatory rankings, meeting transcripts, keyword alerts — Hamlet turns thousands of hours of public meetings into the intelligence your team needs to make decisions.
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