WMU Cultivate 269 — $100,000 Competition
Dekree automates compliance for Michigan townships.We're competing for $100K — and your vote is worth $25K of it.
You get 5 votes total — use one on Dekree
1,240
Michigan Townships
14
Statutes Automated
Live
Deployed & Piloting
The Idea
Dekree is the compliance operating system built for local government. We automate FOIA response drafting, track every legal deadline, manage meeting notices, and give clerks a single dashboard for everything they're legally required to do.
We've mapped 90+ distinct legal obligations across 14 Michigan statutes into a proprietary Compliance Graph — a live database of every deadline, required action, and MCL citation for every township in the state.
🏛 FOIA Management
AI-drafted responses. Tracked deadlines. Legal paper trail.
📅 Compliance Calendar
Every legal deadline, auto-populated from the Compliance Graph.
📄 Meeting Autopilot
Open Meetings Act notices, agendas, and minutes in one place.
Real Customer. Live Product.
“This is completely changing the way we track FOIA. Dekree has eliminated our compliance challenges. Now we have everything in one place with known deadlines. It's a huge step forward for our township.”
Jason Gatlin — Township Supervisor, Wakeshma Township
First pilot customer · Kalamazoo County, Michigan
The Cultivate 269 community vote determines which 9 startups make the finals. Each finalist pitches for $75K (judges) + $25K (community). Your vote literally moves money.
Dekree is live, serving a real township right now. This isn't a pitch deck — it's a product with a paying customer, a testimonial, and a roadmap.
The townships surrounding Kalamazoo are first in line. A win here means local jobs, local tax revenue, and Kalamazoo becoming known as where municipal tech started.
Each WMU student gets 5 votes. Send this to your group chat.
Or vote directly: cultivate269.com