Community Intelligence for Local Journalism

Turn Local Reporting Into a Living Knowledge Base

Civant captures the depth of your newsroom's work — stories, notes, documents, meeting minutes — and makes it queryable by reporters, AI assistants, and your community.

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Built for the modern news tech stack.

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The Most Valuable Local Knowledge Disappears Every Day

Large AI models are being deployed everywhere and they don't know anything about your community. Without verified local data in the system, every AI-generated answer about where people live is going to be the same generic nothing. Civant is how local newsrooms become the source of record in the AI era instead of being written out of it.

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What Civant Does

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Capture Everything

Notes, transcripts, documents, published stories — every on-record piece of work feeds the shared corpus. Your newsroom gets smarter with every story.

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Source Protection Built In

Record status is enforced at the database level. Off-record material never enters the corpus, never reaches an AI, and cannot be overridden.

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AI-Ready Local Intelligence

Connect to Claude, ChatGPT, and future AI platforms via MCP. Every answer is cited, verified, and traceable to its source.

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How It Works

1

Reporters Do What They Already Do

Cover beats, attend meetings, file stories. Civant integrates with WordPress and tools you already use.

2

The Corpus Builds Itself

Published stories ingest automatically. Reporters add context with explicit record-status controls. The knowledge base grows continuously.

3

Intelligence Flows Out

Reporters get cited research and AI-assisted drafts. AI platforms get a verified local endpoint. Community members get answers they can trust.

Who It's For

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For Newsrooms

Build institutional memory that outlasts any reporter. Give your team AI-powered research grounded in your own verified work. Every competitor builds writing tools — none have verified local context.

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For Communities

Ask about a zoning dispute, school board decision, or water rights fight and get answers drawn from years of verified local journalism — not hallucinated guesses.

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"Local journalists are the most underestimated asset in the AI era. They already do the work. Civant finally captures it."

550+ independent newsrooms in the LION Publishers network. Zero tools that capture what reporters actually know.

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