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Discover. Share. Thrive.

Civic is an AI-powered hyperlocal community platform designed to bring towns online as structured, meaningful digital ecosystems. Instead of a global, noisy social feed, Civic operates through individual town instances, where residents, businesses, and local organizations interact within their own community space. Each town becomes its own self-contained network for communication, discovery, and collaboration.

At the core of Civic are resident profiles and mini blogs, which give users the ability to publish rich, WordPress-style content. Posts can include formatted text, images, video, audio, documents, and embedded media, allowing individuals to share stories, updates, guides, and opinions in a structured and expressive way. This turns Civic into both a community platform and a lightweight local publishing system.

Civic also includes a local business directory, where businesses have dedicated pages with services, hours, media galleries, announcements, and promotions. These listings are designed to be dynamic and interactive rather than static entries, enabling businesses to actively communicate with their local audience. Combined with events, polls, and announcements, Civic creates a living map of local activity.

An integrated AI system powers discovery, assistance, and moderation across the platform. Users can use AI to summarize community updates, generate posts, find local services, and understand events. Businesses can use AI to create content and improve visibility, while moderators benefit from automated tools that help detect spam, scams, and harmful content.

To support healthy communities, Civic includes a trust and reputation system, featuring verified residents and businesses, contribution-based reputation scores, endorsements, and moderation-aware rankings. This system is designed to encourage constructive participation and reduce low-quality or harmful content.

Overall, Civic acts as a digital civic infrastructure layer for towns, bringing together communication, commerce, information, and AI into one unified, local-first platform.

This specification is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+) and may be used freely with required attribution under Section 7. A Specification Branding License is available for attribution-free deployments, with fees based on usage, scope, and deployment size.