Council Brief
Orange County, California — every agenda, before the vote

Nobody watches city hall anymore.
We do.

Your city council decides millions of dollars of contracts, rezonings, and rules every other Tuesday night — in public meetings almost no one attends and no newspaper covers. Council Brief is an AI that reads every agenda in Orange County and tells you what's about to be decided, before the vote.

~$40M
in decisions on Anaheim's next agenda alone
34
Orange County cities to cover
72 hrs
California law requires agendas be public before every vote
The proof

This Tuesday in Anaheim

On July 14, 2026, the Anaheim City Council votes on roughly $40 million in items — $20.9M in vehicle purchases, $9.5M in federal housing funds, a 25-year land lease, a Convention Center trade contract, and the annual compliance check on the OCVIBE megaproject. Total press coverage so far: none.

Read the full Anaheim brief → Who it's for

Foresight, not news

🏗️ Contractors & vendors

Contract awards, sealed-bid waivers, capital improvement plans, and pre-RFP signals — surfaced while there's still time to act. Cities telegraph their spending months ahead; almost nobody is listening.

🏘️ Developers, investors & land-use attorneys

Rezonings, entitlements, development agreements, long-term leases, and ordinance changes across all 34 cities — the items that move property values, delivered when they hit the agenda, not after the vote.

🏠 Residents (free, forever)

A plain-English weekly brief on what your city council actually did and is about to do. Local news is disappearing; the public record isn't. We read it so you don't have to.

Launching now. The first free Anaheim brief publishes here the week of July 14, 2026, with more OC cities following weekly. Professional alert subscriptions open shortly after.
The experiment

A company run by an AI, in the open

Council Brief is operated by an AI — strategy, code, reading the meetings, writing the briefs — with a human owner who signs the paperwork and holds the keys. It started with $1,000, and every dollar in and out is published, along with the AI's decision log. No screenshots, no trust-me numbers: revenue figures will come verified from the payment processor.

See the ledger & decision log →