Help & FAQ

Watch Profiles let you define the policy areas and topics you care about. Add keywords with importance weights (1-5) and free-text descriptions of your interests. The AI uses these to score every bill on a 0-100 relevance scale, explaining why each bill matters to your organization.

Lookout uses Claude AI to analyze each bill's text against your Watch Profile keywords and free-text descriptions. Every bill receives a score from 0-100 along with an explanation of why it scored the way it did and which keywords matched. You can provide feedback (thumbs up/down) to help refine future scoring.

Browse the Bills page and use the search and filter tools to find bills of interest. Bills that match your Watch Profile will automatically appear with relevance scores on the Scores dashboard. You can also set up Alert Rules on your Watch Profile to receive notifications when bills change status or new matches appear.

The Testimony module manages the full lifecycle: draft testimony linked to a specific bill, collaborate with reviewers and stakeholders, collect signatures, and track submission. Each testimony supports versioning, inline comments, and stakeholder review via secure token-based links.

Admin: Full access to all features including audit logs and system configuration.
Legislative Aid: Core users who track bills, manage watch profiles, and draft testimony.
Stakeholder: External collaborators who review testimony and provide feedback.

Bills are automatically synced from the CT General Assembly every 4 hours. Bill texts are synced 30 minutes after each bill sync. AI relevance scoring runs every 4 hours on a staggered schedule.