Watch the meeting by topic.
Dekree turns a two-hour recording into a clickable agenda and a searchable transcript. Video or audio, it makes no difference. Dekree already holds your agenda, so the index builds itself.
FIG 1The player a resident sees. Press play and the chapter list follows along, or click any chapter to jump straight to it. Search the transcript to land on the exact moment a topic came up. Switch the recording between video and audio: nothing below the player changes.
A recording nobody can navigate isn't transparency.
You post the two-hour recording and consider the box checked. But a resident looking for the rezoning vote at 1:14:32 has no way to find it, and the vendors that index meetings either charge for human bookmarking or make your clerk scrub the tape by hand. Dekree already holds the agenda and the transcript, so the index builds itself.
How it works
Three steps. Then it runs itself.
Hand us the recording
Connect your YouTube channel once and new recordings are picked up on their own. Or paste a single link. Or upload the audio file straight from your recorder. All three end up in the same place.
Dekree chapters it
We already hold your agenda and the transcript, so Dekree maps each agenda item to the moment it was actually discussed. No human indexer, no scrubbing the tape by hand.
You review, then it publishes
Chapters land as a draft for you to check and edit. Until you publish, residents just see the plain recording. Nothing machine-generated reaches the public before you have seen it.
Most boards record audio. So we treat audio as a first-class recording.
If your board runs a handheld recorder or a laptop mic and has never streamed a meeting in its life, nothing about this page changes for you. Upload the audio file and it gets the same chaptered, searchable player a video gets, with tighter seeking than a video host allows. There is no camera to buy, no channel to set up, and no separate product to license.
- The same automatic chapters
- The same searchable transcript
- The same public player, on your own site
- No video hosting account required
Already posting to YouTube? Then you are already done.
Connect your channel once. From then on, every new meeting recording is matched to the right meeting on your calendar, transcribed, and chaptered without anyone clicking anything. Videos that are not meetings are skipped. Chapters wait as a draft for your review, and minutes are never generated behind your back.
Your video keeps living on your own channel, where residents already watch it and the hosting stays free. Only the index lives in Dekree.
Everything residents (and the law) expect.
Audio or video, same result
Boards that record to an audio recorder get the identical player: the same chapters, the same searchable transcript, and more precise seeking than a video host allows. No camera required.
YouTube channel sync
Point Dekree at your channel once. New recordings are matched to the right meeting, transcribed, and chaptered without anyone touching it. Videos that are not meetings are left alone.
Agenda-synced player
The player sits on your own website, with the agenda beside it. A resident clicks an item and the recording jumps straight there, without ever leaving your site.
Searchable across meetings
Search every meeting for a name or a topic and land on the exact moment it was discussed. Years of public record, finally findable.
Chapters you can fix
Rename a chapter, correct its timestamp, add one at the current moment, delete one. The index is yours, not ours.
A workspace, not just an output
Drop private bookmarks at any point in the recording while you write the minutes. Click one to jump back. Residents never see them.
Review before publish
Generated chapters are always a draft. Regenerate a published set and it drops back to draft. You decide what the public sees.
Tied to your minutes and FOIA
The recording links to the adopted minutes and answers a records request from inside Dekree, already indexed. Video is not a silo.
Included with Open Meetings.
Meeting recordings come with the Open Meetings product. There is no separate line item, no per-hour indexing charge, and no minimum. Keep your recording wherever it already lives.
- Audio and video treated the same
- No added hosting cost when you bring your own channel
- No human indexers, no manual bookmarking
- Priced by population, like every Dekree product
Buy the products you need.
Drafted. Approved. Sent.
Notice → Agenda → Minutes.
Schedules on autopilot.
Citizens self-serve.
The annual summary, one click.
Fees collected online. $0.
Statutes mapped to deadlines.
Dekree, inside your own site.
The packet, to every member.