For city clerks and department staff
Find what your office already knows.
Most of what an office knows sits in shared drives, past agendas, and procedure binders. Mesa searches them together with the municipal code and cites every document it used.
How clerks and department staff use Mesa.
Find the form, the report, or the procedure
Ask in plain language, and Mesa searches your Vaults, SharePoint, and the municipal code together. The answer links to every document it used.
See how it was handled last time
Ask how the council or board has handled a question before, and Mesa lays out each prior action from past agendas, minutes, and resolutions.
Draft the letter, the agenda, the staff report
Mesa drafts letters, agendas, and staff reports from your office’s past versions and the law behind them, and cites both.
Staff Report
Agenda Item 7.B
Oct 14, 2025
- To:
- City Council
- From:
- City Clerk
- Subject:
- Amendment to the Special Event Permit Fee Schedule
Draft the staff report for item 7.B on special event permit fees. Start from last year’s report.
Get a new hire up to speed
New staff can ask how the office handles a filing or a notice and get an answer drawn from your own procedures.
Run the monthly report
Connect Mesa to a spreadsheet or open data portal, and it can build a dashboard or produce the report on a schedule.
A countywide fee study in California.
A California county is using Mesa to study every fee it charges. Mesa reads the code, the board’s records, and the county website together, and links each fee to the action that set it.
How Mesa compares on legal research.
We asked Mesa and four other AI research tools to find every provision in the U.S. Code that defines a federal crime, a task with a known answer. Mesa found 99.8% of them.
Finding every federal criminal provision in the U.S. Code
Recall, best of three runs per system
Mesa
Leading legal AI startup
Claude Research
Gemini Deep Research
Westlaw AI Jurisdictional Surveys
From “What Is the Law? A System for Statutory Research with Large Language Models” (ICAIL 2025). Each system was asked to identify every provision defining a criminal offense in the United States Code. Recall is measured against a validated superset of Count the Code, an independently compiled catalog of about 2,000 federal criminal provisions.
This work runs in Mesa Research.
When a question becomes a records request, the Public Records workspace handles it from intake to release.
Bring a question from your office.
Tell us something your staff gets asked often, and we’ll show you how Mesa works through it.