Partner with UnGovr
UnGovr is building the bridge between people and government. We can't do it alone. Whether you're a community organization, a data provider, a government agency, or a technology company, there's a partnership model that fits.
Community Partner
Eyes on the ground, making neighborhoods better
Community partners are organizations whose members are out in the world every day – cycling on roads, hiking trails, paddling waterways, and walking neighborhoods. They see things that most people don't: a pothole forming on a rural highway, abandoned furniture blocking a bike lane, trash dumped off a trail, or graffiti on a bridge abutment miles from the nearest town.
These are the people who care about clean, safe, and healthy communities. The problem isn't motivation – it's logistics. When you spot a downed tree blocking a trail in an unincorporated area, who do you call? The county? The state parks department? A water district? With UnGovr, it doesn't matter. Take a photo, send it in, and we route it to the right agency based on the location.
How it works
Community partner members use UnGovr's mobile interface to report issues they encounter. UnGovr's entity registry and geographic data automatically determine which government agency is responsible for the location, regardless of jurisdictional complexity. The report – including photo, location, and description – is formatted and routed to the correct agency's service request system. Members can track the status of their reports without needing to know anything about government structure.
What members report
Cyclists: Potholes, broken glass, abandoned furniture or vehicles blocking bike lanes, damaged bike infrastructure
Hikers: Illegal dumping on trails, damaged signage, hazardous trail conditions, blocked waterways
Neighbors: Graffiti, streetlight outages, sidewalk damage, overgrown vegetation blocking paths
Paddlers & anglers: Water quality concerns, debris in waterways, erosion, unauthorized discharge
Why partner with UnGovr
Your members already see these issues. UnGovr gives them a single, simple way to report anything, anywhere, without needing to figure out which agency handles it. This turns everyday observations into actionable service requests that reach the right people. It's civic engagement that fits into the flow of what your members are already doing.
Data Partner
Better data together than apart
Data partners are nonprofits, research institutions, and community benefit companies that maintain geographic, governmental, or transparency-related datasets. By sharing and linking data, both organizations can offer their users richer context and more complete information than either could alone.
UnGovr already partners with organizations whose data enriches our platform. For example, the open records directory integrates RTI (Right to Information) ratings from the Centre for Law and Democracy, giving users both the procedural details for filing requests and a comparative assessment of each jurisdiction's legal framework – all in one place.
Partnership models
Data linking: Cross-reference your datasets with UnGovr's entity registry. Your ratings, rankings, or assessments appear alongside entity profiles, with attribution and links back to your platform.
Data sharing: Contribute structured datasets – boundary files, agency directories, transparency scores, election data – that enrich UnGovr's coverage. Full attribution and open licensing preserved.
Reciprocal access: Use UnGovr's entity registry, geographic data, or crawled document corpus within your own platform. Our entity IDs and structured metadata can help you connect your data to specific government bodies.
Joint coverage: Collaborate on expanding geographic coverage. If your organization has deep data in regions where UnGovr has limited entity coverage, a joint effort accelerates both.
What makes a good fit
Ideal data partners maintain authoritative or curated datasets related to government transparency, civic engagement, geographic boundaries, election administration, public finance, or government structure. We're especially interested in partners with international coverage, since UnGovr operates across 200+ countries. Both nonprofit and mission-aligned for-profit organizations are welcome.
Government Partner
Work with us instead of around you
UnGovr is designed to work without requiring any software installed within government – but it works even better with direct collaboration. Government partners gain a more efficient channel for receiving resident requests and an ally in making public information more accessible.
We'd rather work with you than around you. Direct partnership means better data quality, faster response times for residents, and less overhead for government staff.
Partnership opportunities
Service request integration: Optimize the flow of service requests from UnGovr into your existing service request or CRM system. Direct API integration means requests arrive pre-formatted and correctly categorized, reducing staff processing time.
Custom data feeds: Provide structured feeds of meeting agendas, public notices, service status updates, or other information back to UnGovr. Your content reaches a broader audience without additional publishing effort.
Bulk records access: Instead of processing a high volume of individual open records requests, provide bulk or proactive access to commonly requested document categories. This reduces administrative burden while increasing public access.
Crawl coordination: Schedule our crawler to access your website during off-peak hours, provide sitemap files for efficient crawling, or set up a webhook to notify us when new content is published.
Benefits for your agency
Government partners benefit from reduced volume of repetitive records requests, properly routed and formatted service requests that require less staff intervention, broader reach for public notices and meeting information, and a direct line of communication with a platform that's already indexing your public content. Partnership is free and requires no procurement process – it's a coordination arrangement, not a vendor contract.
Infrastructure Partner
Scale a global civic platform
UnGovr is building infrastructure that spans 200+ countries and is designed to eventually cover every level of government worldwide. That ambition requires serious compute, storage, and AI capabilities. Infrastructure partners sponsor cloud resources and software tools that allow UnGovr to scale without diverting limited nonprofit funding from core development.
We're particularly interested in partnering with companies that have large cloud infrastructure and/or foundation model capabilities. UnGovr has the ability not only to consume these resources productively, but also to provide value back.
What UnGovr needs
Cloud compute & storage: GPU time for OCR, embeddings, and language model inference. Object storage for millions of crawled documents. Database hosting for a growing entity registry.
AI & model access: API access to foundation models for document classification, entity extraction, translation across 30+ languages, and question answering over government documents.
Back-office software: Productivity tools, project management, CI/CD, monitoring, and security tooling that a growing nonprofit needs to operate professionally.
What UnGovr offers in return
UnGovr processes a unique corpus of government documents – meeting minutes, legislative records, budget documents, grand jury reports, open records responses, and public notices from thousands of agencies across dozens of countries. This content is largely unavailable in existing training datasets and is exceptionally valuable for organizations training foundation models from scratch or fine-tuning models for government, legal, or civic use cases.
Infrastructure partners can receive access to this structured document corpus, benchmark their models against real-world government document processing tasks, and align their social impact goals with a nonprofit that's putting their infrastructure to tangible civic use.
Our infrastructure partners
UnGovr is proud to be supported by Cloudflare through Project Galileo, which provides enterprise-grade DNS, DDoS protection, CDN, edge Workers, tunnel-based serving, and object storage at no cost to qualifying public-interest organizations. Cloudflare's infrastructure is foundational to how UnGovr delivers fast, secure access to government transparency data across 200+ countries. We're deeply grateful for their commitment to protecting and empowering civic technology.
Open Records Partner
Investigate at scale, across jurisdictions
Open records partners are journalists, newsrooms, research institutions, and civic watchdog organizations that need to issue a significant volume of public records requests across a broad geographic region. Filing FOIA, public records, and freedom of information requests one at a time is slow and operationally exhausting – especially when your investigation spans dozens of agencies across multiple states or countries with different laws, deadlines, and procedures.
UnGovr's open records system already handles the complexity of 57 US jurisdictions and 140+ countries, each with different response deadlines (3 to 30+ business days), residency requirements, fee structures, and appeal processes. Open records partners can leverage this infrastructure to conduct investigations at a scale that would be impractical to manage manually.
How it works
Batch filing: Define a records request template and a target set of agencies. UnGovr formats and sends each request according to the specific legal requirements of each jurisdiction – correct recipient, correct format, correct legal citations.
Response tracking: Monitor the status of hundreds of outstanding requests in one dashboard. Automatic deadline tracking, follow-up reminders, and escalation when agencies miss their legally required response windows.
Cross-jurisdiction analysis: Compare responses across agencies. Which agencies responded on time? Which redacted the most? Which denied the request entirely? UnGovr can surface patterns across a large request set that would be invisible when filing one request at a time.
Document processing: Responses are processed through UnGovr's OCR and text extraction pipeline, creating searchable, structured content from scanned PDFs and image-based documents.
Who this is for
This partnership is designed for organizations conducting systematic investigations, not casual one-off requests. Investigative newsrooms covering multi-state issues, academic researchers studying government transparency or policy implementation, policy organizations benchmarking government performance, and civic watchdog groups monitoring compliance across jurisdictions. If your work requires sending records requests to more than a handful of agencies, this partnership can dramatically reduce the operational overhead.
Not sure which partnership fits?
We're happy to talk through options. Many organizations fit more than one category, and we're open to creative arrangements that align with our shared mission of making government more accessible.