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How BeInvolved works

City agendas live on dozens of different platforms. A custom Apify Actor reads them all into one schema, Claude explains each item in plain English and scores it against what you care about, and every action (calendar, public comment, alerts) is built on top of that one stream.

  1. 1Actor collects

    Legistar Web API + Berkeley eAgenda, normalized into one schema

  2. 2Dataset stores

    Every item lands in an Apify dataset with its staff report link

  3. 3Claude explains

    Relevance to your interests, plus a one-sentence plain-English summary

  4. 4You act

    Calendar, Claude-drafted public comments, weekly alerts via Apify Schedules

Under the hood

Government agendas are scattered across platforms that were never built to be read together. BeInvolved turns them into one stream that agents can call, built entirely on Apify.

Legistar Web APIOakland, San José + hundredsBerkeley eAgendaberkeleyca.gov HTMLStaff report PDFslinked per itemBeInvolved Actor (Apify)Adapters → one schemaClaude relevance scoringDatasetKV digestWeb appapify-clientClaude agentmcp.apify.comAny MCP clientStandby /mcpSchedule → Taskapify/send-mailapify/web-fetchreads reports

  • Custom Actor

    beinvolved, Python + httpx + BeautifulSoup, published with input and dataset schemas

  • Standby mode

    Always-on HTTP API and its own MCP server at /mcp, no cold start

  • Datasets

    One normalized row per agenda item, with a table view for the Console

  • Key-value store

    OUTPUT record with a Markdown digest agents can read directly

  • Pay per event

    agenda-item-scanned and relevant-item-found, so agents can pay per call

  • Tasks + Schedules

    One click turns a scan into a weekly watch

  • Actor-to-Actor

    Digests go out through apify/send-mail

  • Apify MCP server

    Claude calls the Actor and apify/web-fetch through mcp.apify.com

Use it from your own agent

BeInvolved is an MCP tool. Add either endpoint to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client.

  • Apify MCP server

  • BeInvolved's own MCP (Standby)