Public records people can actually follow.
Civic data tools make public records searchable and understandable while keeping every claim linked to its official source. Leemer Group builds them for newsrooms, charities and public bodies, using the approach behind DáilDex, its independent guide to the Irish parliamentary record.
Civic & public-interest data
Source-linked search and explanation tools over public records, for newsrooms, charities and public bodies.
What kinds of tools do you build?
Search over records such as debates, votes, questions, decisions or filings; plain-language explanations and alerts; and research assistants that answer with links to the original documents.
How do you keep the tools accurate?
Every statement links back to the source record, so a reader can check it. Methodology is published, and the tool says plainly when the record does not answer a question.
What is DáilDex?
DáilDex helps people follow Irish parliamentary life through source-linked updates, representative information and the Dex civic research assistant. It is politically independent and not an official Oireachtas service.
How an engagement works.
- 01
Brief
A conversation about the problem, the people affected and what a good result looks like. You can draft the idea first in Build Brief.
- 02
Scope
A written scope: what we will build or test, what we will not, and how we will agree it is done.
- 03
Build
Focused work in short cycles. You see working software or evidence early, not a reveal at the end.
- 04
Handover
Code, documents and the reasoning behind decisions, in a form your team can run, change and own.
Questions, answered.
Who are civic data tools for?
- Newsrooms, charities, researchers and public bodies that need people to find and understand public records without misrepresenting them.
Can you work with our own records?
- Yes, where you have the right to publish or process them. Data rights and sources are agreed in the written scope.
How do we start?
- Use the contact page. It opens an email draft with this service selected, which you review and send yourself. No form collects your message on our side.
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Tell us what
you’re working on.
Describe the problem and where you are now. We’ll reply with questions, not a sales script. Enquiries open as an email draft that you review and send yourself.