Partnerships
Five ways to work with us, and where each one stands.
UnGovr is a nonprofit building open civic infrastructure. Atlas maps 330,000+ government entities across 200+ countries, and a family of tools runs on it. Partnership is how that map gets better and how it reaches further.
Every offer below carries a label, because the difference between something you can use this week and something we are still building is the first thing you need from a page like this. Partnership is free and involves no procurement. It is a coordination arrangement, not a vendor contract.
How to read this page
Three labels, and we apply them to ourselves.
The same three terms label every product on this site. They describe availability, not ambition.
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LIVE
Running today. If it fits, we can start this week.
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PILOT
Real and running, in a limited set of places or with a limited group. Worth talking about now, with the limits named up front.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Being built. Not something we can offer you yet, and the best time to tell us what it needs to do.
Data partners
Better data together than apart.
Data partners are nonprofits, research institutions, and mission-aligned companies that maintain geographic, governmental, or transparency datasets. Linking two datasets gives both sets of users context neither organization could offer alone.
Today that flow mostly runs one way. We use published datasets under their own open licenses, with attribution and a link back: RTI Rating scores from Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy on the records directory, the EFF Atlas of Surveillance behind WatchWatch's deployment records. Those are sources rather than partnerships. What follows is the two-way version.
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Data linking
Cross-reference your dataset with the Atlas registry, so your ratings, rankings, or assessments appear alongside the entity they describe, attributed and linked back to you. This is how the RTI Rating scores already sit on the records directory.
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Reciprocal access
Use the registry inside your own platform through the free REST API, the MCP endpoint, or bulk downloads. Stable Atlas IDs cross-referenced to GeoNames, Wikidata, OCD, and FIPS are what let you attach your data to a specific government body and keep it attached.
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Dataset contribution
Boundary files, agency directories, election administration data, transparency scores. We load these routinely, and license and attribution travel with the data into our published sources.
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Joint coverage
If your organization has depth in a region where our entity coverage is thin, a joint effort gets both of us further than either mapping it twice. We are particularly interested in partners working outside the United States and Europe.
Infrastructure partners
Capacity, not credits.
Indexing government across 200+ countries takes real compute and real storage. Sponsored infrastructure means limited nonprofit funding goes to building the platform rather than to running it.
One thing worth stating plainly, because it shapes what is useful to us: every model capability in the platform runs on hardware we operate. Document OCR, transcription, classification, translation, and search all run locally, by design and not as a stage we are passing through. So the ask is capacity we can run ourselves rather than access to a hosted model service.
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Compute and storage
GPU capacity for OCR, transcription, and embeddings. Object storage for millions of crawled documents. Database hosting for a registry that grows every day.
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Back-office software
Productivity, project management, CI/CD, monitoring, and security tooling. A small nonprofit running public infrastructure needs the same operational kit as anyone else.
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Acknowledgement, and something to point at
Infrastructure partners are named publicly and can see exactly what their contribution runs: fast, secure public access to government information across 200+ countries.
Our infrastructure partners
UnGovr is supported by Cloudflare through Project Galileo, which provides DNS, DDoS protection, CDN, edge compute, and object storage at no cost to qualifying public-interest organizations. Every page on this site is served through it.
Government partners
We would rather work with you than around you.
UnGovr is built to need nothing installed inside a government. It works better with coordination, and coordination costs an agency nothing but a conversation.
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LIVE
Crawl coordination
Tell us when to visit and how. Off-peak scheduling, a sitemap to read instead of a site to walk, a heads-up when the site moves or the CMS changes. Our crawler identifies itself as UnGovrBot and respects robots.txt either way; coordination just makes it lighter on your servers and more accurate for your residents.
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LIVE
Bulk or proactive records access
If the same category of document is requested over and over, publishing it once costs less than answering the request each time. Tell us which categories those are and we will point at your copy rather than asking for ours.
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PILOT
Service-request delivery into your existing system
Reports from residents, already located, already categorized, arriving in the request system or CRM you use now. Delivery paths are verified with each agency before anything is sent to it, so this runs today for a small number of agencies, beginning in Santa Barbara County. Everywhere else the resident is given the correct destination and a prefilled handoff instead of a dead end.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Structured feeds from you to us
Meeting agendas, public notices, and service status as a feed we ingest directly, so your content reaches a wider audience without extra publishing work. Today we read what you publish by crawling it. If you already produce a feed, tell us and it will shape how this gets built.
Community partners
Your members already see the problem.
Cyclists, hikers, paddlers, and neighbors are out in the world every day and notice what nobody has reported: a pothole forming on a rural highway, a couch in a bike lane, dumping off a trail. The obstacle is rarely motivation. It is that a downed tree on an unincorporated stretch of road might belong to the county, a water district, or the state, and finding out takes longer than the report.
Resolving a location against Atlas boundaries answers that question, so a member does not have to.
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PILOT · CALIFORNIA & IRELAND
Reporting for your members
Members report at 311ca.org in California or sortitout.ie in Ireland, in a browser, with nothing to install. The location resolves to the government responsible for that service at that point. Where we have verified that agency's intake, the report goes into it; everywhere else the member gets the right destination and a prefilled handoff while we work through the rest.
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PILOT
The mobile app
Photograph, locate, and send in one motion. It is in closed testing with a named group of testers and is not open for member sign-ups yet. If reporting from a trailhead with one hand is what your members need, we would like to hear from you before it opens.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Your own reporting front door
A branded entry point for your organization, and a view of what your members have reported and what happened next. Individual reporters already get the outcome of their own report; the group view does not exist yet.
What members report
Potholes, broken glass, abandoned furniture or vehicles blocking bike lanes, damaged bike infrastructure.
Illegal dumping on trails, damaged signage, hazardous trail conditions, blocked waterways.
Graffiti, streetlight outages, sidewalk damage, overgrown vegetation blocking paths.
Water quality concerns, debris in waterways, erosion, unauthorized discharge.
Open records partners
Investigate across jurisdictions.
Newsrooms, researchers, and accountability organizations run into the same wall: an investigation spanning dozens of agencies means dozens of different laws, deadlines, fee schedules, residency rules, and appeal routes. We maintain that reference because we file requests at scale ourselves.
Being straight about what exists: the reference is finished and free, and the tooling that files and tracks requests is ours internally. The partner-facing version is being built, and this is the moment when telling us what your desk actually needs changes what it becomes.
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The law, already looked up
398 records laws covering 140+ countries and 56 US jurisdictions, each with response deadlines, fee structures, residency requirements, exemption limits, and appeal processes, plus request templates you can use directly. Free, public, no partnership required, at law.ungovr.org/records.
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A jurisdiction question, answered
Tell us the jurisdictions your investigation crosses and we will come back with what the directory holds: who the custodian is, what the deadline is, what it should cost, and where the appeal goes. That is a person and a dataset, not a product, and it is available now.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Batch filing
One request template against a target set of agencies, formatted for each jurisdiction's requirements, addressed to the right custodian with the right citations.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Response tracking and cross-jurisdiction analysis
Deadline monitoring across a large request set, follow-ups when a statutory window lapses, and comparison across agencies: who answered on time, who redacted most, who refused outright.
Open source and standards
Where the rules get written.
Beyond direct partnerships, UnGovr takes part in the open source communities defining how AI agents and civic infrastructure work together.
UnGovr is an Associate Member of the Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation initiative advancing open standards for interoperable AI agents, including the Model Context Protocol, and an Associate Member of The Linux Foundation itself. Through them we represent the needs of residents, journalists, researchers, and governments in the standards that will decide how AI agents reach public institutions. That work builds on our MCP server and open data program.
Not sure which one
Most organizations fit more than one.
Tell us what you are trying to do and we will say plainly whether we can help today, whether it is a pilot you would be early to, or whether it is on the list and not built. If you would rather read first, our vision covers where this is headed and get involved covers the other ways in.