Concrete Bills

NYC's legislative data is public but practically unreadable: hundreds of bills move through Legistar in dense legal language, scattered across committees and meetings. Residents, journalists, and advocates had no easy way to see what was actually happening, or what it meant.

Concrete Bills ingests NYC Legistar data into Supabase and makes it explorable through an Algolia-powered dashboard. A separate Node cron service on Render runs the editorial layer: it collects daily legislative actions, uses Claude to write plain-English summaries and FAQs, composes a weekly digest, indexes everything into Algolia, and auto-publishes updates to Bluesky and Threads. The Next.js app stays fast because the heavy editorial work happens on a schedule, not on request.