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THE DISTRICT'S OWN PUBLIC RECORDS

A records brain for school districts.

The district's public record, answerable in Claude or ChatGPT, the assistant your staff already use. Every figure arrives with the page it was printed on.

That assistant is the one thing a district needs already. ANTON is added to it as a connector: one address entered once in the assistant's own settings, with nothing for district IT to install.

Passages go back to whichever assistant asked, because the assistant is what writes the answer, and every passage is a document the district has already published, so nothing confidential is sent anywhere.

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Three isometric planes floating apart — the district's records, the verified layer of page-tied passages and typed facts, and the assistant that asks — with two cross-hatched planes of tenant isolation slicing between them.
  • READ-ONLY
  • PUBLIC RECORDS ONLY
  • PAGE-EXACT CITATIONS
  • ANTON STORES NOTHING NEW

WHAT IT IS

Three things ANTON is not, and one thing it is.

Most systems that answer questions about documents are built to sound right. This one is built to be quoted.

Not a chatbot
— Claude or ChatGPT does the talking.
Not a portal
— nothing new for staff to log into.
Not a document store
— the district keeps publishing exactly where it publishes today.

A read-only lookup — the assistant asks it a question and gets back passages and typed figures, each carrying the document, the date, the page, and a link that opens the district's own file on that page.

The assistant does the reasoning and the writing. ANTON does the lookup, the provenance, and the numbers. That division is the whole design.

GROUNDED BEATS GENERIC

The gap is not fluency. It is whether the answer can be quoted.

A general assistant and a document search both give you something. Neither gives you a figure a board member can read into the minutes without checking it first.

How a general AI assistant, a document search, and ANTON differ on district records
Generic AI chatBasic document searchANTON
Knows the district's recordsTrained on the open internet. It has never read this district's packets.Finds files containing your words. It does not read them for you.Compiled from the district's own published documents, page by page.
Exact figuresProduces a number shaped like the right one.Hands back a PDF and leaves the reading to you.Typed, checked figures with unit and period, or a plain statement that the metric is not verified yet.
CitationsNames a document, sometimes one that exists.Links the file. You go find the page.Document, title, date, page, and a link that opens on that page.
Board-readyEvery line has to be checked before anyone reads it aloud.Ready once a person has opened the file and copied the number out.Already citable. The sentence the figure was checked against comes with it.

NUMBERS COME FROM A CHECKED REGISTRY, NOT FROM THE MODEL.

THE STACK

Three layers. Each one replaceable without touching the others.

Documents at the bottom, as published. A verified layer in the middle. The assistant on top, doing the part it is good at.

Assistant

Claude or ChatGPT does the reasoning and the writing. It reaches ANTON through a connector added once in its own settings.

Verified layer

Passages tied to the page they sit on, and typed facts that carry a unit, a period, and the verbatim quote they were checked against.

Records

The district's own published documents, kept as published. Registered once with type, date, publisher, source URL, and file fingerprint.

An exploded isometric drawing of the ANTON stack: the district's published records at the bottom, a verified layer of passages and typed facts above it, and the assistant on top, with two cross-hatched planes of tenant isolation slicing between them and hairlines running down to the kinds of document the corpus is compiled from.BOARD PACKETSMINUTESBUDGETSAUDITSLEVY FILINGSSTATE REPORT CARDSRECORDSVERIFIED LAYERASSISTANT

One district at a time

One district's records are unreachable from another's. The separation is enforced by the database itself rather than by software that could have a bug, and the serving system holds no administrative key.

Everything a district reads back later, from a document to a figure to the record of who asked what, is kept in one place. Nothing depends on a file on somebody's laptop.

WHAT YOU CAN ASK IT

Whatever the district has already published, in the words you would use.

Ask in plain language, the way you would ask a staff member who had read every document the district has published. That whole set of documents is the corpus, and the assistant turns your question into the right lookup.

  • Budgets

    Adopted budgets, amendments, and the monthly pack, cited to the line you asked about.

    PAGE-EXACT BY DEFAULT

    A budget answer lands on the page, not on the document.

    • Passages never cross a table, so a figure keeps the rows around it.
    • Every passage carries document, title, date, page, and a link ending in a page anchor.
    • Search fuses keyword ranking and meaning-based ranking in one database round trip, so a question in the board's words still finds the staff's wording.

    What that looks like in numbers:

    2,218

    pages in the pilot corpus, each citable on its own

    under 1.5 s

    the bar every search is measured against

    0

    figures read out of prose at question time

  • Levy and tax

    Levy filings, rates, and the certifications behind them.

  • Referenda

    What was put to voters, how it was described, and what the board said about it.

  • Board minutes and packets

    Decisions, discussions, and the packet page the discussion sits on.

    THE DISCUSSION, NOT THE FILE

    You land on the passage. Nobody scrolls a thousand-page packet.

    • Minutes, agendas, and full packets share one filter vocabulary, so a search can be narrowed by type and date.
    • Retrieval quality is measured against a set of the district's own real questions, each with the page that answers it.
    • Every response carries an explicit coverage verdict, so silence is legible as silence.

    What that looks like in numbers:

    18 / 20

    eval questions must return the right passage in the top five

    6,432

    searchable passages in the pilot corpus

    p. 4

    a citation names a page, not just a document

  • Audits

    The annual financial report and the statements inside it.

  • Fund balances

    Monthly fund position as the district reported it, month by month.

  • Investments and treasury

    Holdings, maturities, and rates as published in the treasury reports.

  • Fees

    Fee schedules, billed and collected amounts, and the published collection rate.

    VERIFIED FIGURES

    A rate comes from a checked row, with the printed figure it was matched against.

    • Each figure is a typed row: metric, period, dimensions, value, unit, page, quote.
    • It is served only when the quote appears verbatim on the cited page and the arithmetic checks pass.
    • A rate has to equal collected over billed, line items have to sum to their totals, and year over year has to stay inside sanity bands.

    What a cited answer looks like:

    87.52%

    FY24 collection rate, year-end, p. 1

    71.10%

    FY25 collection rate, year-end, p. 1

    65.47%

    FY26 collection rate, end-of-year update, p. 1

  • Enrollment and report cards

    The state education agency's published report cards for the district.

  • Policies

    Board policy language, quoted as written, with the page it appears on.

  • Contracts and vendors

    Approvals and agreements as they appear in the packet that carried them.

  • Capital plans

    Facility and capital work as presented to the board.

  • Bond filings

    Issuances and the documents filed alongside them.

  • Long-range projections

    The multi-year outlooks the district itself presented, cited to the slide they were presented on.

ANTON does not forecast, model, or opine. It returns what the district published and shows you where it said it.

PROVENANCE

What an answer looks like when it arrives already citable.

Two responses, side by side. One is a figure with its page. The other is ANTON declining to guess, which is the same feature working.

ASKED

What has the district's overall fee collection rate done since FY24?

RETURNED

Three verified figures from two board memos, each with its own unit, period, page, and the printed figure it was checked against.

  • FY24 (year-end)87.52%Fee Collection Rates, FY24-25 (year-end)2025-06-03p. 1
  • FY25 (year-end)71.10%Fee Collection Rates, FY24-25 (year-end)2025-06-03p. 1
  • FY26 (end-of-year update)65.47%Fee Collection Rates, FY25-262026-06-08p. 1
Verified factpercentFee Collection Rates, FY25-262026-06-08p. 165.47%

ANTON calculated nothing here. The trend is the district's own published numbers placed side by side.

ASKED

What is the starting teacher salary under the current bargaining agreement?

NOT IN THE RECORD

The corpus holds no bargaining agreement. Rather than return the closest passage, ANTON says the record does not cover it.

WHERE TO LOOK

Each district keeps a list of the surfaces where it actually publishes, so an answer of absence still points somewhere useful.

Two pages side by side: one carrying a verified tick, the other hatched over to mark a question the record does not cover.

Absence is an answer. It is never dressed up as a weaker one.

Illustrative. Figures from the pilot corpus; district not named.

HOW IT WORKS

Compile once. Check the numbers. Serve. Correct without rewriting.

Four stages, each with its own cadence. Read the cadences first; they tell you where the work actually happens.

The long version

  1. Compile

    ONCE PER RELEASE

    Every document is registered with its type, date, publisher, source URL, and file fingerprint. Pages are extracted and kept as written, and text is split into passages that never cross a table. Loading the same document twice changes nothing.

  2. Verify the numbers

    AT INGEST

    Figures are never read out of prose at question time. Each one becomes a typed row and is served only when its quote appears verbatim on the cited page and its arithmetic checks pass. Anything that fails is held back and never shown.

  3. Serve

    PER QUESTION

    Five read-only operations over a standard connector. Keyword ranking and meaning-based ranking are fused in a single database round trip, and every response carries an explicit verdict on whether the record covers the question.

  4. Correct without rewriting

    ONGOING

    Nothing is overwritten or deleted. A correction is a new entry pointing back at what it replaces, and a superseded document takes its figures out of service automatically.

THE FIVE OPERATIONS

Five ways in. None of them can change a district record.

The whole surface fits on one screen. That is deliberate: a small read-only vocabulary is easier to trust than a large one.

A single ANTON node at the left with a fan of hairlines opening to the right, gathering into the kinds of answer the five operations return: a figure, a comparison, a discussion, a document, what is on file, and whatever else the record covers.A FIGUREA COMPARISONA DISCUSSIONA DOCUMENTWHAT'S ON FILE+ WHATEVER THE RECORD COVERS
  • search

    USE IT WHEN

    You want to know what the records say about a decision, a policy, or a discussion.

    WHAT COMES BACK

    Passages with document, date, page, and a link that opens on that page.

  • get_facts

    USE IT WHEN

    The answer is an amount, a rate, or a count.

    WHAT COMES BACK

    Each figure with its unit, period, page, page-exact link, and the verbatim quote it was checked against.

  • compare_periods

    USE IT WHEN

    You want one metric across several periods, side by side.

    WHAT COMES BACK

    Each period's figure with its own citation. No interpolation, no derived math.

  • overview

    USE IT WHEN

    You are orienting: what does the corpus actually hold, and how current is it?

    WHAT COMES BACK

    Counts by document type, date coverage, and the most recent documents.

  • fetch

    USE IT WHEN

    You have a citation and want to read the figure in its context.

    WHAT COMES BACK

    The stored text of the pages behind a known id, with its provenance.

All five are read-only. ANTON cannot create, edit, or delete a district record.

SECURITY & TENANCY

Public records, kept separate district by district.

Everything ANTON serves is already public. The controls exist so a district can say exactly who asked what, and so one district's records are unreachable from another's.

  • ROW-LEVEL SECURITY

    Every row is stamped with the district it belongs to, and the separation is enforced by the database itself, not by software that could have a bug.

  • READ-ONLY GRANTS

    No role the serving system runs as holds the right to update or delete a record.

  • PER-PERSON SIGN-IN

    Access is granted and revoked one person at a time, against a list the district controls.

  • EVERY QUERY LOGGED

    Each question served is recorded against the identity that asked it.

The serving system holds no administrative key. Isolation is asserted in the test suite, not assumed: one district's search returns zero rows from another district's records, and a caller who has not signed in gets nothing at all.

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Two interlocking hexagonal cells drawn in line, one facet cross-hatched: every table carries a tenant, and one tenant’s records are unreachable from another’s.

THE PILOT CORPUS

One district is live. Here is exactly what is in it.

Real numbers from the pilot district, unnamed. Board packets, minutes, budgets, fund positions, treasury reports, fee memos, and the state education agency's report cards.

  • 133DOCUMENTS
  • 2,218PAGES
  • 6,432SEARCHABLE PASSAGES
  • 36VERIFIED FIGURES, FEE SERIES

Verified figures cover the fee-collection series and nothing else yet. That is the honest state of it, said up front rather than in a footnote. Everything else is fully searchable and citable to the page, but its figures are not in the verified registry, so ANTON says a number is not verified rather than reading one out of a passage.

WHAT COMES NEXT

Next into the verified registry is the monthly finance pack: fund balances, revenue and expense against budget, and investment position, checked the same mechanical way. We are not putting a date on that here.

Every document in it was published by a public body. Nothing confidential, internal, or district-supplied under an engagement is ever ingested.

Ask your district's record a question.

ANTON is added to Claude or ChatGPT as a connector, entered once in the assistant's own settings. There is no application to install and nothing for district IT to host. You need one of those assistants already in place; ANTON does not replace it.

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The pilot is free and scoped to an agreed set of records. Pricing after the pilot is not set yet, and we would rather say that than quote a number we would have to change.