Your town hall, open after five.
For clerks in small towns and cities. Residents get answers at night, your meeting recording becomes draft minutes in your board's format, and records requests stay on time.
90 days free, then from $297 a month. Every price is posted.
Hear a meeting become minutes
Press play on a real council meeting. TownDesk's draft follows along, and every ▶ plays the moment a line came from.
Draft minutes
TownDesk's draftTry it on your own recording
Drop in last month's meeting. No account, no card. Add your last adopted minutes and the draft follows your board's format.
How it works
- Upload an MP3, M4A, MP4 or WAV. TownDesk transcribes it, with speakers numbered until someone says a name.
- It drafts minutes from the transcript. Each line with a ▶ time plays that moment of the recording.
- Where the recording doesn't say who moved, seconded or how the vote went, it writes "clerk to verify" instead of guessing.
- Closed-session discussion stays out. Nothing publishes on its own: you edit, then copy or download for Word.
Tested blind on a real council meeting
We took a two-hour city council meeting whose town had drafted its minutes with an AI minutes product built for clerks. From the recording we listed every fact a clerk records: who attended, each motion, who moved and seconded it, every vote, the figures. Two AI graders who didn't know which draft was which checked both drafts against that list, line by line. We graded it twice, in October 2026, the second time with stricter rules, so each figure below is the range across both rounds.
| TownDesk | The other product | |
|---|---|---|
| Score out of 100 | 77–86 | 47–69 |
| Wrong or unsupported details | 0 | 18–46 |
| Motions recorded wrong | 0 | 1–2 |
On this meeting, TownDesk scored higher in every round, with every grader. Where the recording doesn't say who seconded, TownDesk leaves that line for you to fill.
Tell us your problem. We'll build for it.
Every town hall runs a little differently. Tell Bryan the part of the job that eats your week, and TownDesk gets built to handle it for your town: bryan@towndeskhq.com
Your week, in hours
Put in your own numbers. The dashed boxes are your guesses after trying the demo; leave them empty and the calculator only adds up today.
One N.C. clerk reports 4 to 8 hours of minutes work per meeting (Smart Cities Dive, 2026).
No fine print
Priced by population. The price is the price: setup, training and support from Bryan come with every plan.
Village
- Minutes from your recordings
- Front desk on your website
- Records-request letters and log
- Grant finder and drafts
Town
- Everything in Village
- 24/7 phone line for residents
City
- Everything in Town
- Multiple boards, departments and phone lines
The pilot costs $0 and never turns into a bill on its own. You continue only if you say so in writing.
No yearly contract. Either side can end with 7 days' notice, no reason needed.
Export any time. Deleted within 7 days if you ask. Never sold.
Nothing publishes on its own. Your board adopts the official minutes.
For town managers
TownDesk is one person, so here is what happens to your town if something happens to the service.
Who picks up
Bryan, Cleveland County, N.C.
Setup, training and support come straight from Bryan, the person who builds TownDesk. Expect a reply within one business day: bryan@towndeskhq.com