About Subluceo
Local government, illuminated.
What it is
Subluceo is a civic intelligence platform. We monitor the meetings, permits, licenses, and public records of local governments across the United States and make them searchable, indexable, and subscribable.
Today the platform tracks 3,147 counties, 19,477 cities, 388 metros, and all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. New documents flow in daily. Search any topic, any jurisdiction, any time window — and get back the meetings, agendas, and decisions that matter.
Why it exists
Most policy that affects most people most of the time is decided in local government. School boards, county commissions, planning and zoning, water districts, transit authorities — these bodies meet weekly, decide things, and almost none of it shows up in the news.
That's not because the meetings are secret. They're public by law. The records are online. The problem is that they're scattered across thousands of sites, in formats designed for filing rather than reading, and nobody — not journalists, not researchers, not residents — has the time to follow them all.
Subluceo follows them all, so you don't have to. We pull from the official sources, normalize the formats, and surface what's happening. Sub luce — under the light.
Who's behind it
Subluceo is built by Atomic Software, a small independent company. We don't take advertising, we don't sell user data, and we don't have a venture-capital clock to run out. Subscriptions and API access pay the bills.
The platform is built in Python and PostgreSQL with a custom ingestion pipeline, AI-assisted document classification, and a public API for developers, journalists, and researchers.