Frequently Asked Questions
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Gavelin is accessibility infrastructure for state legislatures. We turn committee hearings and floor sessions into searchable, speaker-attributed, screen-reader-friendly transcripts — designed around ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA from day one. The legislature retains full ownership of every transcript.
Gavelin is built for state legislative operations: Secretaries of the Senate, Clerks of the Assembly, Legislative Council Staff, IT directors, and chamber clerks responsible for accessibility, compliance, and public-records access. We also serve civic technologists and research staff via a free Developer API.
Bill data flows daily for all 50 states. Speaker-attributed hearing and floor transcripts ship for New York, California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut today, with the rest of the country onboarded under contract.
Every statement in a hearing or floor session is linked to the legislator or witness who made it. When someone searches the transcript archive, results show who spoke, in which committee, on what date — not just anonymous text.
New hearings, floor sessions, and bills are indexed within 48 hours of publication on the state's official channel. Bill data updates daily.
Gavelin's production deployment is sold as an annual contract to the chamber or joint legislative body — flat per-state pricing that includes transcription, speaker attribution, full-text search, ADA Title II conformance, MCP API access, and an export-ready archive. Add-ons include a state-branded portal, multilingual translation, and formal WCAG 2.1 AA audits. Request a demo for a quote tailored to your state.
Yes — and it's free for civic technologists and developers. We offer an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at mcp.gavelin.ai that integrates directly with AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Every account gets 10,000 API calls/month at no cost. State deployments include their own dedicated API keys with higher rate limits.
The legislature does. Public hearing content is public record; under contract, the state retains full ownership of every transcript and can export the entire archive in standard machine-readable formats (JSON + plain text) at any time.