Between December 2025 and February 2026, we ran an experiment. We opened a participatory platform — audierne2026.fr — and invited the 3,600 inhabitants of Audierne-Esquibien to co-write a municipal programme. Anonymous forms, public discussions on GitHub, full traceability from submission to integration.
36 citizens contributed. That's roughly 1%.
De l'importance de posséder la surface où l'on écrit son savoir
A hybrid approach that uses regex for transcripts, LLMs for general documents, and NLP guardrails for validation
A global lock pattern that makes local AI as reliable as cloud AI—without the costs or data concerns
The daily practice of challenging AI prompts with messy, real-world data
"It looks impossible - but it's a hackathon. Cheers!"
This is the story of OCapistaine, a civic transparency AI built during the Encode "Commit to Change" Hackathon. It's a story of blocked pipelines, strategic pivots, 4,000 municipal PDFs, and the belief that AI can help citizens understand their local democracy.
Spoiler: We shipped it. Barely.
Sprint planning call between Johnny (@jnxmas) and Victor (@zcbtvag) to align on the Sunday midnight deadline. Key decision: pivot to Mistral Document AI + Batch + Agent for a rapid RAG prototype.
Comment Ò Capistaine construit la confiance avec les citoyens et les agents publics grâce à une fiabilité mesurable de l'IA
Quick catch-up between Johnny (@jnxmas) and Victor (@zcbtvag) covering Opik integration progress and OCR pipeline challenges.
Johnny showcased recent progress on Opik prompt optimization. A new architecture is in place where prompts are no longer hardcoded but managed via an Opik Prompt Library. The "Charter Validation" prompt has already been optimized using this system.
A new mock-up feature can automatically generate contributions (even with violations) from existing meeting reports. The goal is to create a robust dataset to test and improve the validation agent. However, this auto-generation currently produces repetitive content - a challenge that will need addressing by identifying and aggregating duplicate contributions.
Today we completed a major architectural milestone: modular prompt management for Forseti461. Each feature now has its own versioned prompt in Opik, enabling independent optimization and A/B testing.
From a single monolithic prompt to a clean separation of concerns — each Forseti feature can now evolve independently while sharing a common persona.