If you are comparing vendors, this is the page to print. Every feature below is in the product today, not on a roadmap. The list of what we have not built is at the bottom, and it is honest.
The document vault, user accounts, and the workflow itself are never sold separately and never priced per seat.
Deputy clerk, treasurer, attorney, board members. No per-seat charge, ever.
Every record in one place, with folders, drag-and-drop, and full-text search.
Across PDFs, Word files, and meeting transcripts. Search inside the document, not just its title.
Scanned PDFs are read so they become searchable like everything else.
The text is removed from the file itself. The original is preserved in restricted storage.
Every action timestamped, attributed, and exportable.
Scan a document with your phone and it lands in the vault.
Clerks draft, supervisors approve, council views.
Board, Planning Commission, ZBA, DDA. Each with its own meetings, records, and coordinator.
One login for a clerk who also serves a joint authority.
Public-records requests, from the moment one lands to the day it closes.
Forward your inbox once. Requests are classified and logged automatically.
Residents file without emailing you, and the clock starts itself.
Five business days, holiday-aware, computed from your organization’s calendar day.
Escalating alerts before a request goes red, not after.
The 10-day extension, with the statutory citation and the notice.
Waiting on a clarification or a deposit tolls the deadline, and it auto-resumes.
A banner when a new request looks like one you already have. One tap links them.
Optional, off by default. Lawful in Michigan.
Drafted from your records with the exemption cited. Nothing sends without your approval.
Every exemption under MCL 15.243(1)(a) through (cc), cited inline.
With the statutory basis and the appeal instructions the law requires.
SSNs, card numbers, and bank routing numbers found with real validators, each with its exemption attached.
Labor increments, fringe cap, the 6x minimum-wage contractor ceiling, and the 10-cent copy cap.
The 50 percent deposit under MCL 15.234(8), public-interest waivers, indigence and nonprofit handling.
The breakdown a requester can check line by line.
Working copies stay internal. You choose exactly what gets released.
Optional. When the balance is paid, held records are released automatically.
They track it themselves instead of calling you.
Residents are shown records you already published before they file.
Who viewed what, and when.
Talk to your colleague on the record without talking to the requester.
Notice, agenda, the meeting itself, minutes, and the recording.
Upload your Word or PDF agenda and it publishes verbatim. Never reformatted.
Same for notices. Upload, review, post.
Sections, consent agenda, drag-and-drop, and your own numbering convention.
Per public body, and copy-from-last-meeting.
Applied to special and rescheduled meetings only, not to regular meetings on your posted schedule.
Generated and posted, per MCL 15.265(2).
Contents page, per-item dividers, page stamps, and a clickable PDF outline.
Word, Excel, images, and scans are converted in. Nothing is silently dropped.
Run the meeting from it. Roll call, motions, votes, and dispositions as they happen.
Computed live from the roster. Late arrivals count once they arrive.
Two, three, or five minutes. Amber at thirty seconds, red when they run over.
Mover, seconder, result, and each member’s vote. Names surface on a split vote.
Amendments and substitutes sit under the motion they act on.
Items raised from the floor, without breaking the agenda.
Grounded in your roster, your packet, and your confirmed attendance. It does not invent names.
Your Planning Commission can read differently from your Board.
Full-screen, autosaving, with version history and one-click restore.
Clerk and presiding officer sign the minutes inside Dekree.
Everything tabled, postponed, or carried over, across every meeting.
One click emails every member the packet. Anyone unreachable is named back to you.
Members log in and see the meetings and packets for the bodies they sit on.
A running read on where each body stands.
Included with Open Meetings. There is no separate line item and no per-hour indexing charge.
An audio-only recording gets the identical player, chapters, and search. No camera required.
Built from your agenda and the transcript. No human indexer.
Connect once. New recordings are matched, transcribed, and chaptered with no clicks.
Search a name or a topic and land on the exact moment.
Years of recordings, one search.
Rename, retime, add, or delete a chapter. The index is yours.
Drop a marker while you write the minutes. Residents never see them.
Chapters land as a draft. You decide what the public sees.
Your video stays on your own channel, where hosting is free.
Everything below can be embedded into the site you already have, or run as its own site at your own domain.
Document library, meeting calendar, meeting player, FOIA form, and status lookup. Two lines of HTML.
The widgets inherit your brand and carry no vendor chrome.
The widget tells your page how tall to be. No fixed heights, no inner scrollbars.
If you would rather not embed, you get a standalone site at your own domain.
Nested folders, search inside document contents, and in-place PDF preview.
Hiding a folder takes everything in it offline. One switch, no surprises.
With .ics subscription, so residents get meetings on their own calendar.
Built for a 390px screen, with the device’s native PDF viewer.
Screen-reader landmarks and AA text contrast throughout.
Every rule comes from the official DTMB General Retention Schedules, quoted as printed.
From all 31 current DTMB schedules for local government.
Every rule carries a trail back to the page of the signed state schedule it came from.
Grouped by official schedule and filtered to your entity type.
The right schedule attaches when the document lands.
What is eligible, what is due, and what is overdue.
Shows exactly which records have no schedule yet, and how many.
Survives until you lift it.
The state revises these. When it does, we re-pull from the source.
Date, record, schedule, and approver. The defense, not the attestation.
The numbers you are asked for, without assembling them by hand.
Volume, grant and denial rates, response times, and fees. Board-ready.
Both generated from the same source of truth.
See where the work actually lands.
Spot the requests trending toward the deadline before they miss it.
A running read on FOIA and Open Meetings health.
Free. There is no platform fee. The resident pays the processor fee, and funds settle to your bank.
Residents pay online instead of mailing a check.
The 50 percent deposit, collected only after a fee is formally sent.
Funds settle straight to your own connected account. We never hold public funds.
From your own dashboard.
Purpose, amount, and timestamp against the request.
You will find this out eventually, so you should find it out from us. Some of these are things we chose not to build, not things we have not gotten to.
Deliberate. Stream free on YouTube and Dekree does the rest. We are not going to charge you for bandwidth you can get for nothing.
Not built. It is specialist work and we would rather say so than sell you a weak version of it.
Not built. If you need a legal suite, you need an enterprise records platform, not us.
Not built. The clerk captures the vote, which is the right shape at our customers’ size.
Deliberate. Requesters track a request with a reference number and their email. No account to create.
Not built yet. Items are entered by the clerk. This is on the roadmap for organizations with departments.