The government is so transparent that it's invisible.

Red Tape Recordings builds power tools for the most effective grassroots advocates.

Every level of American government is transparent, but it’s so sprawling and bureaucratic, that it takes hours to watch every public hearing or read all proposed legislation. In a way, there’s too much information for typical citizens to actually understand what’s happening.

Advocates, journalists, and politicians themselves all spend thousands of hours of staff time on combing through publicly available information.

We create tools that will save time, save money and make searchable, accurate information for advocates, journalists and politicians.

The website is launching with this tool that lets you deep link to a specific time stamp in a public meeting. At the same time, when you plug in a meeting URL, we’ll check to see if there’s a transcript or agenda that we can match to the time stamps. And in the near future, we’ll be adding transcription, diarization and more.

Put us to Work

• Try the tool: Paste a Granicus or other meeting link into our Deep Link tool to see how it works with your local agencies
• Pass it on: Share this platform with organizers, journalists, and civic watchdogs in your network
• Stay tuned: Subscribe to get updates as we roll out automated meeting monitors, keyword alerts, and deep-archive indexing

Questions, feedback, or a meeting that didn't work? ally@redtaperecordings.com