Agenda management for public meetings

Agendas that work like software, not paperwork.

Save clerks hours per meeting, give staff and elected officials a real workspace, and bring residents into the conversation — without changing the workflow your jurisdiction already runs.

Built for the people who run meetings — and the residents they serve.

Three audiences, three real wins. Livy is designed around the work each one is actually doing.

Clerks

Ship the meeting in less time.

Numbering, sections, PDF packets, audit trail, and compliance helpers are built in. Stop hand-editing Agenda_3-12_FINAL_v3.pdf.

Staff and elected officials

Work in a real workspace.

Multi-step approvals with on-behalf actions. Full-text search across past meetings. A workspace that knows what an “item” is — not a folder of PDFs.

Residents

See what’s happening — and engage.

Public meeting and item pages, with comments tied to the item and not an email pile. Watch a topic, get notified when it moves.

Everything a clerk needs. Nothing a clerk doesn’t.

Deceptively simple to start. Extremely powerful underneath. Purpose-built for city councils, counties, transit boards, and every public body whose meetings belong to the public.

PDF generation

Render paginated, numbered packets straight from the structured agenda — no Word doc surgery required.

Microsoft Word import

Import Word staff reports straight into items. Single sign-on with Microsoft 365 and Google ships on Enterprise.

Detailed permissions and team management

Granular roles for clerks, staff, approvers, and admins. Scope every permission to the body it applies to.

Electronic public comment

Comments attach to the item, not an email thread. Clerks moderate; the record stays clean.

AI-drafted item reports

Draft item summaries with AI from a structured prompt. Chat and MCP integration ship on Agentic — AI minutes coming soon.

Robust multi-step approval flows

Multi-step routing before an item is ready. Assign approvers, add comments, block with a reason.

Full audit trail

Every edit is recorded. Nothing overwritten silently — reconstruct who changed what, and when.

Compliance aware

Brown Act noticing windows, configurable retention, and meeting-record rules are part of the model, not bolted on.

Votes & records

Record aye, nay, abstain, absent, recused. Publish tallies when you're ready — keep them internal when you're not.

Inside an agenda item.

Every item gets a page of its own — staff report, attachments, and public comment, all rendered from the same structured record the clerk wrote.

From draft to completed, in one system.

The whole meeting lifecycle — not just the paperwork at the end.

  1. Step 1

    Draft

    Build the agenda collaboratively in markdown. Route items for approval.

  2. Step 2

    Announced

    Lock and announce per your jurisdiction's rules. Notice logs kept for audit.

  3. Step 3

    Published

    Public page goes live with the compiled PDF and structured item index.

  4. Step 4

    In session

    Call the roll, record votes and outcomes, capture minutes as you go.

  5. Step 5

    Completed

    Finalize minutes, publish the record, link it forward to future items.

Free forever for small jurisdictions.

Livy’s Core plan is free, forever, for any jurisdiction with under $10M in budget or fewer than 100 employees. Every other jurisdiction gets full Core access on the first 50 meetings — add Enterprise when you need scale, identity controls, and priority support.