How it works
Ask a municipal question. Follow the answer back to the record.
Townory connects the records behind a policy, project or past decision, reconstructs the relevant context, and keeps every finding traceable to its source.
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Start with a real question
Ask about a policy, project or past decision.
Instead of searching document by document, start with the question you actually need answered.
- “What commitments came out of this approval?”
- “How did this project change before Council approved it?”
- “How have other municipalities approached this policy?”
Townory begins with the municipal question, not with a keyword search.
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Townory connects the relevant records
Not just similar text. The records behind the answer.
Townory finds and connects relevant staff reports, decisions, by-laws, approvals and other municipal records while preserving their dates, relationships and roles in the decision process.
Staff Report
What was proposed
Committee
What staff recommended
Council
What decision-makers changed
By-law / Approval
What was approved
Later Record
What the later record establishes
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Understand what actually happened
See the history, not just the document.
Townory helps reconstruct what was proposed, what staff recommended, what decision-makers changed, what was ultimately approved, and what the later record establishes.
Different questions need different kinds of answers.
Decision history
Trace how a proposal or decision evolved.
Commitments
See what was required, by whom, and what the later record establishes.
Precedent
Understand what happened on comparable files.
Comparison
Compare approaches across municipalities without flattening their differences.
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Verify the evidence
Every finding stays connected to the record.
Townory shows the evidence behind its findings so users can inspect the source, understand its authority and verify the answer themselves. When the record does not support a conclusion, Townory surfaces the gap instead of filling it with a guess.
Finding
The conditions were satisfied before the by-law took effect.
- [1]Staff ReportJune 3, 2021
- [2]Council DecisionJuly 14, 2021
- [3]By-lawAugust 10, 2021
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Work with municipal knowledge at the right scope
Research within your municipality, across jurisdictions, or directly within authoritative municipal documents.
My Municipality
Recover institutional memory from your municipality's connected records. Trace decisions, commitments, project history and precedent over time.
Across Municipalities
Research how other municipalities have approached the same issue using verified authoritative records.
Municipal Library
Work directly with authoritative municipal documents and their structure.
Three research contexts, one municipal intelligence layer.
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Carry the work forward
Research, evidence, comments and project context can move into project workspaces so the work can be reused and carried forward across teams and projects.
Past knowledge
Municipal history is captured
Research
Relevant context is recovered
Current work
Teams use and build on it
Future institutional memory
Today's work becomes knowledge for tomorrow
Townory connects the records behind municipal decisions so knowledge can be trusted, reused and carried forward.
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