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Cartesian Dataworks

For cities, counties, and public agencies

Cartesian Compass™

Official answers, always cited.

A digital front door built only on your official documents. The public gets answers they can trust, staff spend less time repeating them, and you see which content needs attention. The same engine is being extended to answer your employees' questions from internal policies and records.

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Public assistant
I just moved here. How do I set up utilities?

Setting up water and sewer service

  1. 1.Fill out the New Water & Sewer Service form online.1
  2. 2.Have your service address, account name, phone number, and move-in date ready.1
  3. 3.A one-time setup fee appears on your first bill.1

Paying your bill2

  • Online by card or e-check
  • Automatic payment from your bank
  • Drop box, front desk, or mail
1Utility Billing: New Service (web page)2Payment Options (PDF)

Document health report

37

broken links

12

stale pages

4

duplicates

9

unreadable PDFs

Illustrative example

Why it matters

People are already asking AI about you.

General chatbots and search engines answer questions about local government every day, often from outdated pages, old news stories, or a different place with a similar name. The result is confident, wrong information with your name on it.

Cartesian Compass answers only from your official sources, and shows its work.

It starts from the website you already publish, so there's nothing to upload, and it stays current as your site changes.

For the public

An assistant people actually trust.

Available

01

Plain-language answers

People ask in their own words and get a clear, readable answer, not a list of links.

02

Citations on every answer

Each answer links to the exact ordinance, policy, or page it came from, so anyone can check it.

03

Honest when it doesn't know

If your documents don't cover a question, it explains what's missing instead of guessing.

04

A real conversation

People can ask follow-up questions. It remembers context, and asks for clarification when a request is ambiguous.
Homer, a friendly illustrated homing pigeon

Meet Homer

A guide that always finds its way home.

Named for the poet of the Odyssey, the great story of a journey home, and modelled on the homing pigeon, famous for finding its way back to where it belongs. Homer is the friendly face of the public assistant, guiding every question back to the official source.

For communications and IT

Available

Document health report

Find content problems before the public does. The report flags:

  • Broken links across your site
  • Duplicate documents published under different names
  • Pages that haven't changed in a long time
  • PDFs with no readable text, such as scans without OCR

For employees

In development

Answers for your employees

The same engine, pointed at internal sources such as policies, procedures, handbooks, and records. Employees will get cited answers in seconds instead of digging through folders or asking around. Internal content will stay separate from public content, with access limited to your staff. Integrations with records systems such as Laserfiche are being shaped with IT teams.

Administration

You stay in control.

Administrators decide what the assistant can see and say, and keep a full record of what it said.

01

Turn public chat off instantly with one switch, without affecting staff access

02

Rate limiting, with alerts on unusual traffic

03

A log of every question and answer, with date filters and CSV export

04

Exclude any document from answers with one click

See it with your own content.

Because we start from your public website, we can show you real answers from your own documents.

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