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Agents
Every GovScale module comes with an agent that knows its job. They answer residents, prepare the paperwork, and keep things moving, all inside the permissions and approvals your team sets.

Agents · Town of Ashford · Today
9 active23 tasks today
Website Builder
Drafts pages, fixes accessibility, keeps content current
142 tasks today
311 & Service Requests
Triages, deduplicates, routes, and replies
87 tasks today
Billing & Payments
Answers bill questions, flags anomalies, reconciles
6 tasks today
Meetings & Agendas
Drafts minutes and plain-language summaries
2 tasks today
Emergency Alerts
Translates and formats alerts for every channel
11 tasks today
Public Records & FOIA
Finds documents and suggests redactions
14 tasks today
Social Media
Drafts posts from your published content
31 tasks today
Asset Management
Turns reports into prioritized work orders
0 tasks today
Help Center & Docs
Writes and updates articles from your policies
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How It Works
Every agent follows the same loop. It gathers what's needed and prepares the work, then stops at the point where your policy says a person should decide.
01 · Intake
Something comes in
12 pothole reports on Route 9
02 · Draft
The agent prepares
Merges them into one work order
03 · Review
A person decides
Luis in Public Works approves
04 · Act
The work happens
Crew 3 dispatched, 12 residents notified
05 · Record
It's on the record
Logged with who, what, and when
Ask Ashford
English · Español · Tiếng Việt
Request #4821
RoutedMissed recycling · 214 Maple St
Sanitation · Expected tomorrow
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For Residents
Residents shouldn't need to know which department handles what. The assistant on your website understands the question, finds the answer, and finishes the task.
Answers from your content
Grounded in your pages, ordinances, and documents, with links to the source.
Files requests
Creates the 311 request with the address, photo, and category filled in.
Takes payments
Looks up the bill, explains the charges, and checks out securely.
Books appointments
Schedules inspections, facility rentals, and office visits.
Speaks their language
Responds in the resident's language, not just English.
Knows when to hand off
Routes to a staff member with the full conversation attached.
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For Staff
Most local governments are doing more with the same number of people. Agents handle the repetitive prep work so your team can spend more of the day with residents.
Needs your approval
Drafted by agents · waiting on staff
Meetings agent
Minutes — Sept 22 council meeting
14 motions, 3 votes, and a plain-language summary drafted from the recording.
Clerk
311 agent
Merge 12 pothole reports on Route 9
Same location within 40 m. One work order, one reply to all 12 residents.
Public Works
Alerts agent
Spanish boil-water notice
Translated from the English notice. Ready for text, email, and site banner.
Emergency Mgmt
Staff hours per week
Today
With agents
Meeting minutes
6h → 45m
Triaging duplicate 311 reports
5h → 30m
“When is my pickup?” calls
8h → 1h
Translating notices
3h → 15m
Illustrative estimate for a town of about 20,000 residents.
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Guardrails
Decide what each agent can do on its own, what needs a sign-off, and what's off-limits. Changes take effect right away.
Allowed
Needs approval
Not allowed
Settings / Agents / Permissions
Agent | Read | Draft | Reply to residents | Publish or send | Spend or refund |
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Resident assistant Owner · Communications | |||||
311 agent Owner · Public Works | |||||
Billing agent Owner · Finance | |||||
Meetings agent Owner · Clerk | |||||
Records agent Owner · Clerk |
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Oversight
Agents follow the same rules as your employees, and everything they do is written to a log your clerk can search and export.
Your staff approve
Each department decides what an agent can do on its own and what waits for a person.
Agents only see what they need
An agent has the same access as the role it works for. HR records stay with HR.
Everything is logged
Every draft, approval, and denial is saved with a time and a name, and you can export it.
| time | actor | action | approved by |
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| 09:14:02 | 311-agent | merged 12 reports → work order WO-1187 | l.ortega |
| 09:14:40 | l.ortega | approved WO-1187 · assigned Crew 3 | — |
| 09:31:17 | alerts-agent | translated boil-water notice → es | p.nair |
| 09:32:05 | system | alert sent · sms 8,412 · email 6,030 · voice 1,188 | p.nair |
| 10:02:51 | builder-agent | drafted /services/leaf-pickup (4 sections) | pending |
| 10:05:33 | meetings-agent | requested /records/hr · denied by policy | — |
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