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Starter questions

What this answers

legislation

What a bill or law says, in plain words, with the text beside it.

process

How something works — how a bill moves, what a committee does, who decides what.

offices

What an office can and cannot do, and who handles what.

records

Where a public record lives and how to request it.

rights

What a right says and where it is written down.

literacy

Reading, comprehension and plain-language help with any of the above.

• Answers only from available civic source material.
• Every response includes the educational disclaimer.
• Citations show title, source URL, and verification date.

What it refuses

All of it, not the comfortable half. Each one says where to go instead — a civic tool that says “not my area” and stops has refused twice.

Whether a law applies to your situation.

That depends on facts about you that a screen does not have, and getting it wrong costs somebody a deadline or a case.

Instead: We explain what the text says and point you at it. For your situation, a lawyer — and legal aid exists.

Anything about your body, your health or a medicine.

Same reason as legal advice with higher stakes, and nobody in this organisation is qualified to give it.

Instead: A doctor, a nurse or a pharmacist. If it is urgent, emergency services rather than a website.

What to do with your money.

Not our competence, and the incentive structures around financial advice are exactly what this project is sceptical of elsewhere.

Instead: A fiduciary adviser, or a nonprofit financial counsellor.

Who to vote for, or what to think about a candidate.

The whole organisation's standing rests on not doing this. It is not caution — a non-partisan civic body that answers this question once has stopped being one.

Instead: We show the record: what they said, what they did, what is documented, what is contested. You conclude.

Anything outside civic material and literacy.

An assistant that will discuss anything is one that will be confidently wrong about something serious at two in the morning, and this organisation cannot carry that.

Instead: There are general assistants for that, and they are better at it than a civic tool pretending to be one.

Current mode

If OpenAI is not enabled locally, the backend returns a safe source-limited fallback answer with citations.