Every client question about councils, answered from the record
Consultancies sell judgement backed by evidence — and gathering local government evidence by hand is brutal. QuorumInsight gives your team the analysed record of council meetings across the UK: research any authority on demand, cite primary sources, and monitor every client’s issues from one subscription.
The billable-hours problem with council research
When a client asks "what is this council planning on regeneration?" or "how are authorities in the North West approaching waste?", the honest cost of answering from primary sources is days: finding webcasts, scrubbing through video, reading committee packs across multiple authorities.
So the work either eats margin, gets priced out of reach, or gets answered from secondary sources everyone else already read. None of those is where a consultancy wants to be.
Research any council in minutes
Each monitored authority has an intelligence profile: meetings analysed, active topics with 12-month trends, procurement and spending signals, pressures, entities and full transcripts. The desk research that took days becomes a reading session — with every claim traceable to the meeting it came from.
Cut across authorities for market and policy studies
Sector and region hubs aggregate signals across councils — which authorities are most active on a theme, what categories dominate, where activity is accelerating. For landscape studies, benchmarking and "who else is doing this" questions, the cross-cutting views do the heavy lifting.
The public insight explorer searches the whole signal base by topic, so a niche client question ("which councils are discussing school transport?") starts with a query, not a research plan.
One subscription, many clients
- Plans scale by councils covered, not by users’ topics — run monitoring for many client issues at once
- Watchlists per engagement: follow the authorities each client cares about
- Alerts on client names, competitor names and issue language across councils
- Export council reports to drop evidence into client deliverables
- Verbatim quotes and meeting citations that survive client scrutiny
Standing intelligence as a service line
Several consultancies use continuous monitoring not just as an internal tool but as a client offer: a monthly intelligence briefing on the councils that matter to each client, evidenced from meetings, at a fraction of the effort it would otherwise take. The marginal cost of the next client’s briefing is close to zero — that is the leverage.
Frequently asked questions
Can we use QuorumInsight for client work?
Yes — research, monitoring and reporting for clients is a core use case. Signals and transcripts carry citations to the public record, which makes them safe to put in client deliverables.
How does pricing work for multi-client use?
Plans scale by council coverage: Pro covers up to ten councils, Business covers all monitored councils — usually the right fit for consultancies serving multiple clients. See pricing for current details.
Can we monitor different topics for different clients?
Yes. Alerts and watchlists are not capped by topic, so one subscription can track regeneration for one client, social care for another and a supplier’s reputation for a third, simultaneously.
How current is the data?
Meetings are transcribed and analysed shortly after councils publish them, and alerts fire as signals are extracted. For retainer work, that means briefings reflect this month’s meetings, not last quarter’s minutes.
Can we export evidence for reports?
Yes — council reports can be exported on paid plans, and every signal’s citation (meeting, date, quote) is designed to be quotable in client-facing documents.
Give your team the record
Start free on one council, or talk to us about coverage for a multi-client practice.