Civic technology platforms serving citizens, policy analysts, and advocacy groups face significant challenges with legislative transparency. Users need to understand proposed bills and legislation quickly, but government documents often run to hundreds of pages with complex legal language that requires hours to digest properly.

Citizens and policy stakeholders were missing critical legislative developments because proposed bills were too lengthy and complex to review before public comment periods closed. With bills often exceeding 200 pages of dense legal text, most users couldn't invest the 3+ hours required to understand the content, implications, and key arguments before comment deadlines.