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Claude Impact Lab LA Turns Civic Idea Into Collaborative AI-Built App in One Day

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At a Claude Impact Lab event in Los Angeles, a government employee brought an unbuilt idea called Agenda Watch — a tool to make city government meeting agendas searchable in plain language — and turned it into a working app within a single day. The event, hosted by Claude community ambassador Travis Johnson and Evan Grenda at Intersections LA, paired developers and non-developers to build solutions inspired by earlier community conversations about AI's impact on work. By the end of the session, the project had four contributors and was renamed CiviQ, with its first code commit written that day. The app aims to help residents easily search municipal agendas across multiple boards and commissions, returning results with direct links to source PDFs for verification. The creator, who typically builds alone using Claude Code, credited the collaborative environment for both the product's evolution and a personal shift in confidence around group building.

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