AI doesn’t know your town and doesn’t decide anything. It helps you read the council packet, prepare a speech or a public meeting, and understand a new legal text. You remain the voice and the signature of the town.
AI helps mayors and local officials with tasks such as “Prepare the council meeting,” “Write a ceremony speech,” and “Draft a municipal order.” Start with a single task, in Gemini Notebook: allow 20 minutes the first time, and always review the result before you use it.
For each task: how it goes today, then with the tool. And the time it takes the first time.
Gemini Notebook · “Chat” panel, then “Audio Overview”
TodayThe meeting packet arrives five days before the council meets: twenty resolutions, two hundred pages of appendices, and your day job on top of it.
With Gemini NotebookA briefing sheet per resolution, your questions ready, and an audio summary to listen to before the meeting.
TodayNew Year’s address, commemoration, ribbon cutting: the page is still blank the night before, and last year’s speech can’t be reused.
With ClaudeA speech written to be spoken, at the right length, that you finish in your own words.
Claude · Word file, in the conversation
TodayA street to close for roadwork, a square to reserve for a festival: in a small town, the order gets written between you and the clerk’s office, from an old template.
With ClaudeA draft order in Word, with the list of points to have reviewed before signing.
Also
Mistral Vibe · “Temporary Chat”
A short, factual draft reply, to reread with a cool head before sending.
A short summary, adapted to the size of your town, with the official text to open.
Mistral Vibe · “deep-research”
A sourced report on comparable towns, with the questions to ask before deciding.
Gamma · “Paste”
Ten slides readable from the back of the room, exported to PowerPoint.
Wispr Flow · Dictation, in your email
Your routine replies written by voice, reread, and sent the same day.
ChatGPT · Voice
A rehearsal out loud, and the list of answers to rework before the meeting.
Noota · Meeting notes, with a template
A one-page decision log, sent the same evening to the deputies and the clerk’s office.
All 10 use cases on this page are in Nova, each with its steps and its prompt.
Try the interactive demoWhat to check
It only knows what is in the packet: it replaces neither the committee nor a question put to staff. Don’t upload an appendix that names people: assistance, personnel, litigation. An audio summary can distort a figure: check in the document.
Prepare the council meetingGemini Notebook · “Chat” panel, then “Audio Overview”The prompt to copy
Using only the sources in this notebook, prepare me for the town council meeting of [date]. For each draft resolution: the subject in one sentence, what the council has to decide, the amount committed and the budget line when they are stated, and what changes from the current situation. Then flag, for each item, what the packet doesn’t say and a council member should ask: full cost, timeline, other options considered, committee opinion. Cite the document and the page for every figure. End with the [three] resolutions that commit the town the most, and why.
In Nova, “My path” starts from your level: one next step at a time.
The first moves, with free tools.
In your jobWrite a ceremony speech
In your jobUnderstand a new requirement for your town
In your jobPrepare the council meeting
In your jobDraft a municipal order
For a team: everyone moves forward in their own job. You see the team’s progress, never one person’s activity.
You upload the meeting packet: it answers from those documents alone, shows the passage, and turns them into an audio summary to listen to on the road.
Recommended planFree: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, 50 questions per day, 3 Audio Overviews per day.
It writes the first draft of a speech or a draft order from your notes, and gives you a Word file to correct.
Recommended planFree to start. Pro, $20 per month ($17 per month if billed yearly).
A French assistant, hosted in Europe, for preparing a delicate reply in a temporary chat or researching what other towns have done.
Recommended planFree, with a limit on the number of messages. Then: Pro, €14.99 per month, excl. tax (€17.99 on the French App Store).
To understand a new requirement: a short answer, with the official pages to open.
Recommended planFree: basic searches with almost no limit, 3 “Pro” searches per day. Then: Pro, $20 per month (€22 on the French App Store).
Between meetings, you dictate your messages on your phone or computer: the text is written cleanly wherever the cursor is.
Recommended planFree, $0: 2,000 words per week on computer, 1,000 on phone. Then: Pro, $15 per user per month ($12 if billed yearly).
To present the budget or a project at a public meeting, with slides readable from the back of the room.
Recommended planFree, $0, to try it: 400 credits that do not refill. Then: Plus, €8 per user per month, billed yearly (€96).
Prices taken from the vendors’ official pages, dated on each tool page. These subscriptions are not included in Nova. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.
Nova recommends 6 to start with: Gemini Notebook, Claude, Mistral Vibe, Perplexity, Wispr Flow, and Gamma. All of them can be used for free to get started.
You upload the meeting packet: it answers from those documents alone, shows the passage, and turns them into an audio summary to listen to on the road. The plan to choose: Free: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, 50 questions per day, 3 Audio Overviews per day.
With “Prepare the council meeting,” in Gemini Notebook (“Chat” panel, then “Audio Overview”). Allow 20 minutes the first time. A briefing sheet per resolution, your questions ready, and an audio summary to listen to before the meeting.
No. Nova is software, not an accredited training provider: it issues no diploma or certification. It costs €19 per month for one person, and €129 per month for a team of up to ten people.