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Re:Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and ... by sand1929 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @07:39PM (#42323617)
Honestly, if you or anyone else has a really easy way to get all communications/publications from every government/government-adjacent body, I genuinely would love to hear it. Especially at the regional/local level, cause those can be a real pain, and we'd love to save ourselves some time
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Re:Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and ... by sailfast on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:44PM (#42323971)
At least for the US, the Federal Register would be a good place to start if you're not scraping it already: https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/documentation/api...

Federal news radio: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/

Government procurement announcements and opportunities: https://sam.gov/reports/awards/standard

In general, you might get more traction if you tilt this toward government contract capture a la Deltek GovWin and other companies. Lots of money in contract intelligence as well as proposal support (in addition to government relations / lobbying)

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Re:Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and ... by sand1929 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:59PM (#42324047)
Yep we get the sources above. We've definitely thought about contract capture--we've just been hesitant because it seems like such a competitive space. But it's definitely tempting, and it wouldn't take much to convince us for sure
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Re:Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and ... by jjmarr on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:26PM (#42324960)
What's the order of magnitude of the amount of data sources? 100s, 1000s, tens of thousands?
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Re:Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and ... by sand1929 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:57PM (#42325109)
Definitely many thousands, possibly the 10s of thousands depending on what you count as a source (e.g., if you get press releases from one part if an agency’s site, and speeches from another part, one could consider those separate sources I suppose).
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