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Policy
to product
Turn a 90-page brief into a working prototype before the coffee gets cold.
See the playbook →A builder community in Washington, DC
Build the capital
at cursor speed.
A local network for people who turn messy civic, policy, and city workflows into sharp software — one useful shortcut at a time.
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policy → product
ship / learn / repeat
the local layer
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01 / The local stack
Workflows with
gravity.
CursorDC is where DC’s operators, designers, engineers, organizers, and curious neighbors trade the tiny systems that make a big city feel more navigable.
Policy
B / 02
Neighborhood
ops
Share the maps, forms, automations, and shortcuts that move a block forward.
Browse field kits →C / 03
AI, with
receipts
Practical agents for real work — transparent, testable, and useful on Monday.
Meet the agents →01.5 / The DC advantage
Proximity is
a feature.
DC compresses the distance between a policy idea, the people it affects, and the team that can make the next version. CursorDC turns that proximity into practical leverage.
Shorter feedback loops
Test a public-facing workflow with the people who know its edge cases — before it becomes a launch-day problem.
More civic leverage
One thoughtful automation can give a small office, nonprofit, or neighborhood team back hours every week.
Context in the room
Policy, technology, service delivery, and lived experience meet in one city. That mix makes better tools.
02 / The room
Bring a workflow.
Leave with a crew.
Every month we gather around one local friction point and leave with a better version of it. No gatekeeping. No keynote voice. Just a room full of people who can make the next step real.
See what’s next ↗46builders in
the loop
the loop
12workflows
shipped
shipped
1city-sized
sandbox
sandbox
MAKE
IT
USEFUL
IT
USEFUL
03 / The CursorDC journal
Small ideas.
Real momentum.
Practical essays on how DC teams can use AI, better interfaces, and local context to make public work more legible.
The 15-minute constituent brief
A practical intake pattern for district offices and civic teams: turn a long email into a clear next step without flattening the human context.
Get the workflow →From hearing transcript to decision log
How a small, auditable prompt can help policy teams surface themes, open questions, and owners before the room forgets.
Read the note →What 311 can teach a block
Use local service requests as a conversation starter — not just a dashboard — for finding patterns a neighborhood can act on.
Read the note →Make the federal form feel human
A field guide to simplifying dense instructions, reducing repeat questions, and giving residents a clearer path through public services.
Read the guide →The DC starter pack for useful agents
A modular kit for turning recurring research, meeting prep, and public information into a small, legible system.
Fork the kit →An ANC sprint that ships something
One agenda, one shared canvas, and one tiny prototype can turn a monthly meeting into visible neighborhood momentum.
Read the playbook →04 / Your move
The city is
an interface.
Get the next workflow drop, local hangs, and a reason to open your editor.