Ò Capistaine Kick-off
AI-Powered Civic Transparency for Local Democracy
My 2026 Resolution
This year, I will finally understand my local elections and get involved as a citizen.
Sound familiar? Every election cycle, millions of citizens want to participate but face the same wall: scattered documents, administrative jargon, and no time to dig through years of municipal decisions.
This January, I stopped just wishing — and started building.
What We're Building
Ò Capistaine is my answer to the civic engagement resolution we've all made (and broken). It's an AI-powered transparency tool that:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Document Crawling | Index 4,000+ municipal documents with Firecrawl + OCR |
| Citizen Q&A | Answer questions in plain language via RAG |
| Quality Tracking | Monitor LLM accuracy with Opik (hallucination detection) |
| Multi-Channel | N8N workflows for Facebook, email, and chatbot engagement |
Supporting audierne2026.fr — a participatory democracy platform where citizens co-create the 2026 municipal program.
Progress Update (Checkpoint 1)
Status Overview
| Component | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| audierne2026.fr | ✅ | Jekyll platform live, citizens contributing |
| Document Corpus | 🟡 | 42 Gwaien bulletins collected, 4,000+ arrêtés identified |
| Firecrawl Pipeline | 🔴 | Infrastructure designed, crawling not yet operational |
| Opik Integration | 🟡 | Tracing architecture planned, awaiting RAG implementation |
| N8N Workflows | 🟡 | Vaettir repo created, FB/email integration designed |
| RAG System | 🔴 | Vector store + retrieval pipeline pending |
| Documentation | ✅ | docs.locki.io live with methodologies |
What's Working
- Live participation platform with real citizen contributions
- Dual-license structure (Apache 2.0 + ELv2) for open collaboration
- Bilingual documentation (EN/FR)
- Project planning and task tracking on GitHub
Next Steps
- Fix Firecrawl pipeline — Get municipal document crawling operational
- Deploy Opik tracing — LLM observability from day one
- Build RAG retrieval — With hallucination guardrails
- Launch citizen Q&A — First chatbot interactions
Hackathon Tracks
| Track | Why We Qualify |
|---|---|
| Social & Community Impact | Civic transparency tool enabling local democracy participation |
| Best Use of Opik | LLM-as-judge evaluations + tracing for RAG quality assurance |
When citizens ask "What happened with the school budget?", the answer must be accurate and sourced. Opik helps us guarantee that.
Team
| Name | Role | GitHub |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Noël Schilling | Project Lead / Backend | @jnschilling |
| Victor A | Backend Python | @zcbtvag |
| GurmeherSingh | ML Engineer | @GurmeherSingh |
| (open for contributors) | Frontend / UX / Communication | — |
Links
| Resource | URL | Public/private |
|---|---|---|
| Live Platform | audierne2026.fr | public |
| Documentation | docs.locki.io | public |
| GitHub | locki-io/ocapistaine | private ATM |
| Project Board | GitHub Projects | public |
If AI can help us keep our New Year's resolutions, maybe the most impactful one is: becoming a better citizen.