govOS
by 12 Stones Global · transparent government, any jurisdiction

money × votes · agendas · the public record

Your government, in the open.

govOS turns your county's own public records — campaign money, roll-call votes, contracts, agendas — into clear answers anyone can check. Free to read. Powerful tools when you're ready to dig.

Start free See the live dashboards →
🔓 The public record is always free. You only ever pay for private tools — AI, your own dashboards, building your systems — never for access to your government's data. Every figure is sourced and framed as a question, never a verdict, never fabricated.

Why the network exists

ALOHA NET · WIFI lineage
Connection with boundaries.
In 1971, ALOHAnet at the University of Hawai'i showed that islands could share the air, exchange packets, recover from collisions, and keep communicating. govOS carries that lesson forward: public records stay public, private tools stay protected, and every bridge exists to create access, care, trust, and shared safety.

Hawaiʻi — the land, the record

PUBLIC RECORDS · HAWAIIAN-HELD & TRUST LANDS
Crown & government lands — on the map.
Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) and ceded former-crown/government lands (Public Land Trust), drawn directly from the Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS. Toggle the overlay on. Click any parcel.
Open full map ↗
Sources: Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS Program — DHHL Official (layer 8) · Government Lands/Public Land Trust (layer 23) · OpenStreetMap basemap. Formal land-status records only. Does not indicate private owner ethnicity — that is private and not knowable from public data.

New: running commentary

NEW · govOS Commentary Seat
Every vote. Explained.
A running AI commentary for every council and committee meeting — item by item, with the money behind it, the compliance record, and pono notes. Delivered to your inbox after each meeting. Subscriber-private, licensed per seat, and not approved for rebroadcast or redistribution.
  • Item-by-item AI commentary
  • Money proximity flags
  • Sunshine Law compliance
  • Testimony cross-check
  • Private email delivery
  • Pono notes per item
  • One subscriber seat per recipient
  • No rebroadcast / redistribution rights
$99
/month per seat
Learn more → Subscribe now
Per-seat access only. Not approved for rebroadcast, reposting, resale, or redistribution.

Choose how you engage

Free
$0
  • Read every public dashboard + open-data catalog
  • Vote on requests (one verified person, one vote)
  • Submit public feature / oversight requests
  • Animated agenda explainer — make shareable explainer cards using govOS premade assets coming soon
Start free
Ask AI popular
$29/mo
  • Ask the AI anything about the public data — sourced
  • Sunshine-Law deadline + testimony calculators
  • Draft bills / charter amendments + inquiry packets
  • Message the system directly
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Private Dashboards
$99/mo
  • Everything in Ask AI
  • Build your OWN private dashboards with AI
  • Custom oversight reporting (money by office, vendors)
  • Connect your accounts to post your civic content
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County Data + Design
$999/mo
  • Everything above
  • Full county data + design modules
  • Build your jurisdiction's own systems on govOS
  • Concierge onboarding
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See it before you sign up

⚖ The dashboards
money × votes
  • Every figure behind the transparency engine
🏛 Your government
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  • Maui · Hawaiʻi · Honolulu · Kauaʻi · State · NY
📊 Open data
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  • Don't take our word for it — the raw records
🗣 Testify
be heard
  • Write testimony → your clerk + the public record