Opportunity Radar

The Opportunity Radar lists the ways people in a place can take part in public decisions: comment periods, hearings that take testimony, board and commission vacancies, grants, procurements and surveys. Each shows whether it is open, its deadline in the place's own time, who may take part and how, all as the official source states them.

The watchlist and the participation log come with it. Open it from Statecraft → Opportunities, with a location chosen in the header.

Open, unconfirmed or closed

The official source decides whether something is open. The platform never guesses:

The reason is shown beside the status. An opportunity that disappears from its source becomes Unconfirmed on the next run of that source, not closed: it may have moved, or been taken down early. A deadline that has passed is Closed at once, even between runs.

By default the radar shows open and unconfirmed opportunities, soonest deadline first. Tick Closed to include past ones, or Only what we watch to see your watchlist's.

Deadlines and time zones

Deadlines are written in the zone of the place they belong to, with the zone named: a deadline of 4:30 p.m. in Port Orchard reads "4:30 PM PST (America/Los_Angeles)" wherever you are. When the source gives a date without a time, only the date is shown. The opportunity's page quotes the source's own words for the deadline beside the date.

An opportunity's page

• Status with its reason, and the deadline with the source's wording.
• Who may take part: eligibility, quoted word for word. When the source states none, the page says so; the platform never infers requirements.
• How to take part: the source's instructions and a link to the official page. Nothing is submitted from here: you comment, testify or apply through the official channel.
• The meeting or matter it belongs to, when there is one.
• What we have done: your workspace's participation log entries about it, and Record what you did. Project leads also get Start an initiative, which opens a new initiative already linked to the opportunity, where your plan includes initiatives.

Every fact has its Source link and when it was last seen. Each quote also has Open in document, which opens the source in the document viewer scrolled to the excerpt, ready to cite in a research note (where your plan includes the research studio); the coverage banner says what is monitored for the place. Opportunities a model read from a document reach the radar only once approved in the review queue, or promoted automatically for a task whose accuracy has been proven on its test set.

Eligibility checklist

When the source states requirements, the opportunity's page turns them into a checklist: each line is the source's own words, linked to the excerpt. Tick each one Met, Not met or Unsure for yourself. Your workspace sees the ticks; nothing is scored, and the platform never decides whether you are eligible: the body does. The checklist changes only when the source's requirements do.

Applications

Track an application on an opportunity's page starts an application in Statecraft → Applications. You still apply through the official channel; the tracker keeps what you report about it, step by step:

1. Planned, when you start tracking it.
2. Submitted (official channel), with the link to the channel you used and when. This adds an entry to the participation log.
3. Acknowledged, when the body confirms receipt.
4. Outcome known: successful, unsuccessful, no response or withdrawn, with a note. The participation log entry gets the same outcome, and the next weekly briefing lists it.

Each workspace keeps one application per opportunity. Researchers, editors, project leads and owners can track and update applications; every member can read them.

Listed in two places

Two sources (or a source and a model's reading of a notice) can describe the same opportunity. When both give the same address and nearly the same title, the platform keeps one as the main listing; the other's page says This is listed elsewhere too and links to it, and lists, briefings, alerts and calendar feeds show it once. A shared address alone is not enough: a page that lists many boards links them all to one address, and those are distinct. Pairs that only look alike (a similar title with the same deadline) wait for a platform operator (one of the people who run the service), who decides Same opportunity or Keep both in the review queue.

The review queue

Some opportunities and agenda items are read from documents (a notice, an agenda packet) by an AI task. Those readings wait in Statecraft → Review until a person checks them:

• Each claim (title, body, deadline, eligibility, application link) sits beside the quote it rests on, linked to the excerpt, and is marked Word for word in the excerpt or flagged when the quote is not in it, or cites an excerpt the task was not given.
• Failed automatic checks and quarantine reasons are listed above the reading.
• Researchers and editors can read the queue. Editors approve or reject readings of the workspace's own documents; a rejection needs a reason, which is kept.
• Readings of public sources, which become public records everyone sees, are approved by platform operators. Workspaces see them read-only.