Arcalect is local government intelligence: a map of who actually decides things, who influences them, and how they have acted before. It reads agendas, roll calls, campaign finance filings and board appointments, and resolves them into one record of people and relationships. Clients state what they’re trying to get done (a zoning change, a license, a run for office), and Power Map tells them who holds power over it, who to talk to first and in what order, and how to play it, with every fact cited to the public record. Before every council and committee meeting, a Meeting Brief shows who’s in the room, how they vote together and who brought each item.
I built it because I’ve run for office twice and learned the hard way that the real map of local power isn’t written down anywhere. It lives in the heads of a few dozen people who have been around long enough to know who decides, who funds whom, and whose call actually matters. Arcalect puts that map on the record for the people who can’t afford to walk into a room blind: government affairs teams at universities and hospitals, developers, land-use counsel and candidates.