We’re thrilled to announce a catalytic grant from Knight Foundation. The Knight team has challenged us to meet ambitious growth goals to accelerate our work to expand thoughtful and consistent participation in democracy, starting with local government.
This Knight Foundation support will allow SeeGov to serve more than a thousand communities with a platform that promotes transparency, accountability, and public engagement. We’ll be able to collaborate with journalism support organizations and peer civic tech providers to reach hundreds of newsrooms and creators, as we endeavor to serve the entire country.
SeeGov makes it easy for reporters and creators to see what happens in government meetings and extract the highlights into shareable video clips. The platform automatically collects and transcribes local government meeting videos and provides breakdowns of everything that happened. AI supports the process, but creators maintain full editorial control.
In 2025, SeeGov gained our first newsroom partner and we’re now supporting 45 of them. In that same period, we grew from monitoring just a handful of governments to nearly 200.
Importantly, SeeGov is already helping journalists find stories. Colorado Trust for Local News senior reporter Suzie Glassman uses SeeGov and other innovative tools to support her local government accountability reporting. Suzie described how she uncovered a story from one of five school boards she monitors with the platform:
I might have glossed over it if I had just been watching the YouTube video, but when I was reading through the transcript I was like, “oh, that’s really interesting”…So I watched the full 20 minutes. And then I thought, okay, that’s a story.
Thank you to Amalie Nash and Natalia Gonzalez at Knight Foundation, who quickly recognized the potential of our work and worked closely with us to shape the right outcomes for the work to be done under this grant.