What 269 councils are about to decide, and what they decided

Council Watch

A saved question, asked every night against every council in the province. What is on the agenda, what passed, who moved it, how each member voted.

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Eight councils is what a person can cover

A policy staffer can read the agendas of the handful of councils they are paid to watch. Ontario has 444 municipalities. The items that matter are rarely in the eight being read, and the first anyone hears of them is when a client asks why nobody flagged it.

A mention is not a decision

Knowing that a topic came up tells you very little. Whether it carried, who moved it, who voted against, and whether the same council has done the opposite twice before is the part that changes what you advise. That requires the record, not a keyword hit.

What you get

605,912 decisionsacross 206 councils — 85% of Ontarians — each with its mover, seconder, outcome and full text
736,030 member-by-member votesacross 72 councils, so you can see how an individual voted on everything they have ever voted on
272,073 attendance rows and 4,679 declared conflictsacross 193 and 126 councils. Absence is never inferred — a missing row means nobody knows, and says so
1,248,914 agenda itemsacross 137 councils, so a question can be asked of what is coming as well as what is done
Withheld rather than guesseda municipality that fails any of the twenty nightly checks is held back in full rather than served partially, and the page says it was

What it costs

Single seat

$9,000 a year

One person, all 269 municipalities. 1 seat.

Unlimited saved questions
Daily email and a dashboard
Full decision, vote and attendance history
Source link on every row

Opens at launch

Firm

$24,000 a year

A team, all municipalities, shared questions. 5 seats.

Everything in Single seat, for the team
Shared saved questions and a team digest
Member voting history and comparison
Bulk export of your own matched results

Opens at launch

Association or enterprise

$45,000 a year

Unlimited seats, the API, and a named contact.

Everything in Firm, unlimited seats
The API and nightly bulk export
A quarterly cut of what moved across your sector
A named person who answers the phone

Opens at launch

Pricing is set. Accounts open at launch — until then, write and we will talk.

How we compare

The same discipline as the Planning Watch table: competitor claims are from their own published material read on 2026-09-28, unknown means unknown, and the rows where we lose are included.

	Of Record	Gnowit	Curate (FiscalNote)
Ontario municipalities	✓ 269	~ Top 50 across three provinces in the municipal tier	✕ United States only
Unit of output	✓ A row: motion, mover, outcome, each member's vote	? Documents “tagged by jurisdiction, category, and issue type”	~ “A snippet that provides relevant context around a mention”
Member-by-member votes	✓ 736,030 positions	? No published claim	? No published claim
Attendance and declared conflicts	✓ 272,073 and 4,679 rows	? No published claim	? No published claim
History before subscription	✓ Back to 1960	✕ Accumulates forward	✕ Accumulates forward
Federal and provincial	✕ Municipal only	✓ Included	✓ US federal and state
Live transcripts	✕ None	✓ Same-day, 50+ municipalities	? Not stated
Media and press-release monitoring	✕ None	✓ Included	~ Local documents only
Published price	✓ $9,000–$45,000 a year	✓ $1,000 a month municipal; $1,200 combined	✕ Not published
Track record	✕ No customers yet	✓ Since 2010	✓ Acquired 2021 for US$8.4M

✓ yes · ~ partly · ✕ no · ? neither confirmed nor denied by any source we could find

Where we lose, and who should not buy this

Gnowit covers federal, provincial and municipal in one subscription and costs less than our Firm tier. If you need all three levels from one vendor, buy theirs.
We do not do media monitoring, press releases or transcripts. If what you want is to know when your client is mentioned anywhere, this is the wrong product.
Agendas for meetings that have not happened yet are being added now. Until that lands, this tells you what councils decided, not what they are about to.

Where the competitor claims come from

Read 28 September 2026. Gnowit pricing · Gnowit municipal monitoring · Gnowit government monitoring · Curate · Curate for local government · FiscalNote 10-K, FY2025 · FiscalNote acquires Curate · Canada's contract disclosure · Council Scorecard · Open Council on voting records

What is always true. The public record stays free at every municipality's own address. What is sold here is notification, shape and reach — never earlier access, and never anything a reader cannot see for themselves.