Built for councilmembers and staff
Policy research with the law attached.
Mesa is the research coworker for the council office. It answers constituent questions from the municipal code and state law, searches the council’s own agendas and minutes for what past councils decided, and turns a policy idea into a cited options memo.
Policy questions rarely arrive with the law attached. The answers sit in the municipal code, the council’s own record, and the statutes above both. Mesa does the reading, the digging, and the drafting in between.
Use cases
How council offices use Mesa
From constituent complaints to draft resolutions, the work comes back with motions, votes, and provisions cited.
Mesa can work a policy question into a cited options memo: what the chapter on the books says, where state law limits what council may adopt, and what other cities have adopted. Each option cites the provision it rests on.
Answers that hold up
Public answers have to hold up in public.
Public answers get challenged, and the reasoning behind them has to be available when they are. Mesa is built so that reasoning stays attached to every answer it produces.
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An answer to a constituent or a colleague carries the provisions it rests on, so the reasoning is still there when it's challenged in public.
Nothing is overwritten
Reports, datasets, and interactives keep their full revision history. What an office relied on last month is still there, as it was.
Access under the office's control
SSO, fine-grained roles, and separate workspaces. What each office is researching stays its own business.
Never used to train AI
Customer data is contractually prohibited from training any model, whether Caldera's or any AI vendor's.
See Mesa work a real question.
A thirty-minute demo, run on a real constituent question or a draft from the packet. We’ll show what Mesa does with it.