A nonprofit building open civic infrastructure
A global map of government, and the tools that run on it.
Discover which government entities serve any location, understand what each one does, and find the right path to access services or make a request. The map is published as a public good, for residents, journalists, researchers, and the software that acts on their behalf.
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The platform
- AtlasLive
- RequestPilot
- MonitorsLive
- LawLive
- Grand JuryLive
- Data & APILive
- WordsPilot
- Ask ClarkIn development
Who we are
UnGovr is a nonprofit organization building open civic infrastructure. UnGovr Atlas is the foundation, a global map of each layer of government from national ministries to mosquito abatement districts, and Request, Monitors, Law and Grand Jury Reports are what we build on top of it, with more on the way.
Put to work
A map is only the start. These run on it.
Every UnGovr product answers the same question a different way: now that government is mapped, what can people do with it?
UnGovr Request
Report an issue once and Atlas routing works out which agency actually owns it, no insider knowledge required. Open to anyone in both markets, with delivery straight into an agency's own intake live for a first group of agencies and more brought online as we verify them.
How Request works →UnGovr Monitors
Six public monitors that document government power and its controls. We publish the record; others act on it. Sheriffs, civil grand juries, surveillance technology, data centers and age-verification law, each built on Atlas entities and boundaries.
Visit the network →UnGovr Law
The transparency-law library: 398 open records laws across 140+ countries, plus open meetings, fiscal, and oversight statutes, indexed jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
Browse the law library →Grand Jury Reports
13,000+ California civil grand jury reports, findings, and agency responses, searchable in one place. This collection represents more than 10,000 person-years of government investigative effort, and it informs the whole platform.
Search the reports →UnGovr Words
Public-meeting recordings turned into readable, searchable records, so what was said in a council chamber can be read rather than sat through. Published meetings are live to read; coverage is still a small set of bodies.
Read the meetings →Ask Clark
A civic assistant that answers questions with the public record itself rather than from memory. What is open today is a preview of how it would work, plus a waiting list; the assistant is being built.
Meet Ask Clark →The breakthrough
Nobody had a detailed map of government. So we built one.
Government is the original decentralized system: hundreds of thousands of nations, states, counties, cities, and special districts, each with its own shape on the ground and its own way of doing things. UnGovr Atlas is an open registry that maps each layer of government to the territory it actually serves, from national ministries to mosquito abatement districts.
Provenance
Filled in from the record itself.
Nothing in the Atlas is typed in from memory. We start from official registers and boundary datasets, read what governments publish on their own websites, and where the published record is silent, we ask, with public records requests filed directly with the agencies.
Official registers
National and state registries, census rosters, and authoritative boundary datasets anchor every jurisdiction we map.
Government website crawls
Our crawler reads what agencies publish about themselves: services, contacts, meetings, and documents, revisited continuously as sites change.
About our crawler →Public records requests
Where no dataset or website answers the question, we file records requests with the agencies themselves, always within each jurisdiction's law.
Records laws we follow →For developers and agents
The same map, as data.
For people
An accessible, multilingual interface to every mapped government: who serves this place, what they do, and how to reach them.
For software
Entities, boundaries, services, and request paths as a consistent API, so the software people increasingly rely on can reach government correctly instead of guessing.
The agent layer →Why we map
Transparency first. Trust follows.
We map government because transparency is the foundation of trust between the public and its government. When people can see who governs them, what each body does, and how to act, everything else follows.
A better educated public
When the map shows who governs a place and what each body does, understanding government stops requiring insider knowledge.
A more efficient government
A government that is easy to find and easy to reach spends less time redirecting misrouted requests and more time on the work itself.
A world that reflects each community's values
Governance is local. When people can see and reach their own institutions, each community can shape them around its own priorities.
We do not replace official government systems. We put a consistent, accessible layer in front of them, and we build outward from proof: get an approach working in one place, then repeat it everywhere the map reaches.