This weekend, Chief AI took home 1st place at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 94th Annual Meeting. 200 mayors from across the country voted – all gathered in Long Beach, California to share ideas, explore new technology, and bring innovation back to their cities. Here's what we pitched and why it matters.
The problem every mayor's office faces
Government offices run on manual processes – scheduling, briefings, relationship tracking – all managed through spreadsheets and inboxes. When a step in that process breaks, an opportunity is missed, a relationship suffers, or a wrong decision gets made. And when staff leave, everything they know leaves with them.
The decisions mayors make – on housing, public safety, economic opportunity – are only as good as the information they're made with. When that information is scattered and outdated, the constituents who depend on those decisions pay the price.
The AI readiness challenge
Mayors are ready to use AI responsibly to modernize government and strengthen their cities. The U.S. Conference of Mayors partnered with Google to release an AI playbook for city leaders. Bloomberg Philanthropies and Johns Hopkins University launched the Mayors AI Forum to shape how AI is developed and deployed across cities worldwide.
The interest is there; the problem is context. AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT can draft a memo or summarize a document. But without the context of a specific office – its relationships, its priorities, its institutional knowledge – the output is generic. And the data is rarely governed in a way that meets government security and compliance standards.
The intelligence platform built for leaders
Chief AI is the missing piece. We connect time, relationships, and priorities in one system – purpose-built for the way government offices actually operate. Every meeting note feeds the graph. Every interaction builds institutional memory that belongs to the office. Data is stored in the U.S., never used to train AI models, and governed with role-based access controls to meet the security standards government requires. Chief is the context layer that makes AI useful for a mayor and their office, helping them drive toward their goals.
We're expanding to our next cohort of mayoral offices across the country. If you're a mayor or chief of staff, reach out at hello@getchief.ai.
