Know what is happening in council chambers before it affects your work
Search New Zealand council meeting transcripts, minutes, and video moments. Track resource consents, plan changes, infrastructure debates, and public submissions before they land on your desk.
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Minutes, agendas, video
Decision signals
Topics, votes, debate
Your local government context in one place. Expanding region by region.
OpenMinutes is designed for the councils, committees, hearings, and local board meetings your work depends on, without making you watch every recording manually.
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Every result is shaped around a real meeting workflow: the topic, the council, the timestamp, and the words that matter.
resource consent
in Auckland
“resource consent”
in Auckland
Track which consents are moving, deferred, or attracting public comment.
“district plan”
in Queenstown-Lakes
See planning changes before they become a constraint on your next project.
“water services”
in Wellington
Follow infrastructure pressure, funding choices, and resilience work.
From search to decision context in minutes
OpenMinutes turns long agendas and recordings into a searchable trail of the exact decisions, deferrals, and concerns your team needs.
Search anything
Search by project name, address, policy topic, company, or council across indexed meeting material.
Jump to the moment
OpenMinutes points you to the relevant timestamp instead of asking you to scan hours of agenda video.
Track what changes
Turn recurring topics and jurisdictions into watchlists so emerging risks are easier to spot.
Built for teams with decisions on the line
Developers, infrastructure teams, advocates, legal researchers, and public-sector staff all need faster access to what was said in the room.
Property & Development
Find zoning changes, public objections, consent conditions, and signals from planning committees.
Resource consent tracking
District plan changes
Community sentiment
Infrastructure
Monitor transport, water, energy, and resilience discussions before procurement or approvals land.
Pipeline signals
Funding debates
Delivery timelines
Legal Research
Locate public testimony, hearing records, and council decisions that support land-use research.
Transcript history
Decision precedent
Hearing context
Government Relations
Understand what elected members and submitters are saying across councils and committees.
Stakeholder mapping
Policy monitoring
Submission timing
Community Advocacy
Follow housing, transport, environment, and equity issues without watching every meeting live.
Public comment windows
Local issue tracking
Campaign research
Council Teams
Make prior meeting context easier to find for staff, members, and the public.
Institutional memory
Meeting discovery
Public transparency
See what public meeting data uncovers
The Briefing will turn transcripts, votes, and council records into practical notes on housing, infrastructure, resilience, and local democracy.
Read sample signalsHousing
Plan changes and intensification debates
Infrastructure
Transport, water, and growth pressure
Climate
Resilience funding and adaptation choices
Democracy
How councils actually make decisions
Know before you brief the team
Local government data is often spread across agendas, PDFs, livestreams, minutes, and hearing notes. OpenMinutes is designed to turn that public record into searchable decision intelligence for New Zealand.
DMI
Decision Momentum Index
A signal for how efficiently public items move from proposal to committee action, approval, or next step.
Higher score: clearer movement
Lower score: slower or deferred
CFI
Consultation Friction Index
A signal for opposition, deferrals, complex consultation, and contentious public debate.
Higher score: more contested
Lower score: smoother path
Which councils may move an item forward and which may slow it down
These preview cards show the ranking experience. Real scores appear only when the underlying OpenMinutes data is live.
The public record exists. Make it usable.
Meeting transcripts, minutes, keyword alerts, and decision signals for teams that need to understand New Zealand local government before the next agenda closes.
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