OpenContext

Open source · Civic AI

Ask your city's data in plain English

OpenContext bridges open data portals and AI assistants. Residents and staff get answers from live catalogs — without spreadsheets, tickets, or custom integrations.

See how it worksView on GitHub

Built in partnership with the City of Boston

The value

From trapped catalogs to answers people can use.

01

Data you already have
Point at CKAN, Socrata, or ArcGIS. Your portal stays the source of truth.

02

Minutes, not months
Fork, configure, deploy. A working AI connection in one sitting — not a custom build.

03

Answers in plain language
Staff and residents ask questions. Assistants query live open data and respond clearly.

Partner

Built in partnership with the City of Boston.

OpenContext was developed with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology to make open data easier to query with AI — and is featured on Boston’s open data showcase.

City of Boston

OpenContext has transformed how our teams interact with city data. Getting answers that used to take days now takes seconds.
Read the Boston showcase

100+

datasets made AI-accessible

~4×

faster path to production

< 15 min

typical setup time

Fits your stack

Works with the portals cities already run.

Expand a category to see what’s live and what’s coming next.

CKAN

Live

Connects to CKAN APIs so assistants can discover datasets, resources, and metadata from your catalog.

Socrata

Live

Translates SODA API responses into natural-language answers over your Socrata portal.

ArcGIS

Live

Exposes ArcGIS REST layers and feature services for location-based questions.

AWS

Live

Deploys on Lambda and API Gateway — serverless, scalable, and ready in minutes.

GCP

Soon

On the roadmap.

Azure

Soon

On the roadmap.

Deploy in minutes. Query in plain English.

Get startedStar on GitHub