About OpenGov
OpenGov is an advanced legislative intelligence platform that combines AI analysis, graph databases, and real-time data to make congressional activity accessible and actionable.
How It Works
Data Collection
We ingest bill text, vote records, and sponsorship data from congress.gov, building a comprehensive knowledge graph covering all 535 members of Congress in Neo4j.
AI Analysis
Claude analyzes bill text to extract stance classifications, key provisions, potential impacts, and cross-references to related legislation.
Citizen Action
Personalized dashboards help you track issues that matter, understand your representatives' records, and take informed action.
Technology Stack
- Neo4j graph database for legislative relationships
- PostgreSQL for user accounts and behavioral analytics
- Claude (Anthropic) for bill analysis and summarization
- Redis for caching and performance
- Next.js + React frontend with Tailwind CSS
- Flask API backend with 90+ JSON endpoints
Methodology
Bills are classified using CRS (Congressional Research Service) policy areas and retrieved through a validated 4-stage pipeline combining graph-based scoping, semantic search, and legislative momentum scoring. Quality is measured against curated golden sets with 94% average recall across 41 tracked issues.