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ClearGov’s Financial Engagement enables municipal leaders to publish, communicate and engage constituents around their financial priorities and planning.
At a glance
Who: ClearGov.
What: The govtech company is launching an end-to-end AI-powered platform that enables local governments to publish, communicate and engage constituents
Why: To build community alignment around financial priorities and planning before budgets, tax votes, overrides, and capital plans go to council.
When: Financial Engagement is available now and in use by early adopter cities such as Rochester Hills in Michigan.
Govtech company ClearGov is launching an AI-powered platform that helps local governments build community alignment before budgets, tax votes, overrides, and capital plans go to council.
Financial Engagement is an end-to-end solution for municipal leaders to publish, communicate, and engage constituents around financial priorities and planning.
Early adopter programme
Five governments participated in ClearGov’s Early Adopter Programme including: Rochester Hills, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Placer County, California; Southwest Public Libraries, Ohio and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Today’s constituents are online sharing opinions, commenting, and having conversations about municipal spending,” said Tyler Davey, CEO of ClearGov. “The key is to turn those conversations into constructive, actionable dialogue that builds alignment and better decisions. That’s what ClearGov makes possible.”
“The data behind Financial Engagement is gold. It helps us connect community input directly to our decisions and invest resources where they matter most”
Financial Engagement is purpose-built to help finance teams meet the Government Finance Officers Association’s (GFOA) updated Distinguished Budget Award criteria, where points are now awarded for digital engagement, community participation, and transparent decision-making.
AI-powered plain-language summaries, sentiment data, and two-way feedback channels map directly to the Communications Device category of the award.
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Financial Engagement is designed to turn financial communication into an active, two-way, year-round channel between local government and the residents it serves. Its capabilities include:
- AI-powered financial storytelling that converts budget data into interactive narratives residents can understand
- AI Insights that give finance teams data on what their community understands, values, and wants funded
- Two-way engagement tools including polls, surveys, and open questions delivered via web and SMS
- Activation support to drive constituent engagement year-round.
“The data behind Financial Engagement is gold. It helps us connect community input directly to our decisions and invest resources where they matter most,” said Bryan Barnett, mayor of Rochester Hills, Michigan, which was involved in the Early Adopter Programme.
Rochester Hills chief financial officer, Joe Snyder, added: “We recognised an engagement gap where residents might want to know more, but don’t know where to start. The Financial Engagement platform closes that gap by turning hundreds of pages of data into an interactive, visual experience giving any resident or business owner a seat at the table.”
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