Government transparency exists. Awareness doesn't.
Aware builds the tools that close that gap — so residents, government, and businesses can all find and understand the local decisions that shape daily life.
3,835
Towns & school boards covered
195M+
People represented
5
Countries — US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ
4
Products, one mission
Local decisions deserve a wider audience.
Aware's mission is to build tools that government, businesses, and consumers can all use to make local news and government decisions easy to find and easy to understand. Schools, taxes, zoning, safety — the decisions made in a two-hour meeting most people never watch still land on everyone in town.
Read our full story →Four products. One record of the truth.
Aware Insights
Follow your town and understand every decision — plain-English recaps, Ask Aware Q&A, and cross-city research.
Visit aware-insights.net ↗
Sundays.News
A free newsletter that tells you what happened in your town's government, every Sunday morning.
Read Sundays ↗
Aware Lens
ADA-compliant meeting video and resident engagement for government, plus Aware Atlas research access.
Visit aware-lens.com ↗
CampaignTrack
A financial dashboard that keeps candidates compliant with local election rules and reporting.
Visit CampaignTrack ↗Common questions
What does Aware do?
Aware builds software that turns local government activity — meetings, budgets, campaign finance, ordinances — into information residents, officials, and candidates can actually use, across four products built on one shared research foundation.
What is Aware Insights?
Aware's consumer platform for following local government: plain-English meeting recaps, an Ask Aware Q&A tool, and cross-city research for tracking ordinances, budgets, and trends. Visit aware-insights.net.
What is Sundays?
A free weekly newsletter. Every Sunday morning, covered towns get a plain-English recap of local government from the week before, with a dedicated page, email edition, and a podcast in select cities. Visit sundays.news.
What is Aware Lens?
Formerly Aware Compliance. It automatically makes government meeting video ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, and gives town staff access to Aware Atlas for cross-city research. Visit aware-lens.com.
What is CampaignTrack?
A single financial dashboard that keeps candidates and committees compliant with local election finance rules — contribution tracking, limit checks, and periodic disclosure reports. Visit campaigntrack.net.
What is Aware Atlas?
Aware's underlying research database — a record of how thousands of local governments have addressed the same issues across five countries. It powers Aware Insights, Aware Lens, and CampaignTrack.
How many communities does Aware cover?
More than 3,800 towns, cities, and school boards across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand — more than 195 million people.