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  <Name>About Us</Name>
  <Description>GroundVue is a civic technology organization and public benefit corporation focused on helping public leaders learn from local government decisions across communities through AI-enabled and social science-informed policy intelligence.  We provide policy intelligence for the people who govern by using AI and social science to analyze local government meetings, reveal real-time policy priorities, and support better public decision-making.</Description>
  <OtherInformation>Submitter&apos;s Note: This StratML rendition was compiled from the source by ChatGPT and edited in the form at https://stratml.us/forms/Claude/Part1.html</OtherInformation>
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    <Organization>
      <Name>GroundVue, Inc.</Name>
      <Acronym>GRNDV</Acronym>
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      <Description>GroundVue is a public benefit corporation with a fiscal-sponsored nonprofit 501(c)(3). We are solely funded by mission-aligned impact investors and philanthropic institutions.</Description>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>State &amp; Local Governments</Name>
        <Description>Public institutions responsible for making and implementing decisions in communities across America.^^</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Public Leaders</Name>
        <Description>Decision-makers who need timely, trustworthy, and actionable policy insights.^^</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Communities</Name>
        <Description>Residents and places affected by state and local public decisions and their outcomes.^^</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Impact Investors and Philanthropic Institutions</Name>
        <Description>Mission-aligned impact investors and philanthropic institutions ~ Funding stakeholders supporting GroundVue&apos;s public-purpose work.^^</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Founding Team</Name>
        <Description>Built by civic tech leaders and policy experts who have delivered across federal, state, and local government.^^</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person">
        <Name>Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D.</Name>
        <Description>Chief Executive Officer | Sociologist and public sector data strategist.
^^
Former Senior Advisor to the White House Chief Data Scientist and U.S. Department of Commerce.
^^
Led data strategy for a $12B agency. Founder of Counties R.I.S.E. at UC Berkeley. Strategist for the City of San Jose.^^</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person">
        <Name>Ann Lewis</Name>
        <Description>Chief Technology Officer
^^
Technology leader, product strategist, and public sector systems builder.
^^
Former Director of Technology Transformation Services (TTS) at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), where she led a team of ~700 technologists delivering platforms, products, and services across government.^^</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person">
        <Name>Travis Hoppe, Ph.D.</Name>
        <Description>Chief AI Officer | Physicist, AI researcher, and health scientist.
^^
Former Chief AI Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and former White House Assistant Director of AI Research and Development at the Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP).
^^
Led CDC&apos;s AI mission as its first Chief AI Officer (CAIO), launching the agency&apos;s first AI strategy and guiding national public health AI adoption.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
    </Organization>
    <Vision>
      <Description>Communities across America benefit from smarter public decisions informed by trusted, shared learning about what works.</Description>
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    </Vision>
    <Mission>
      <Description>To use AI and social science to analyze local government meeting records so public leaders can learn from peer communities and make informed decisions.</Description>
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    </Mission>
    <Value>
      <Name>Trust</Name>
      <Description>Build trusted civic data infrastructure for the long term.</Description>
    </Value>
    <Value>
      <Name>Evidence</Name>
      <Description>Base policy insights on verified public records and real policy discussions.</Description>
    </Value>
    <Value>
      <Name>Learning</Name>
      <Description>Enable leaders to learn across jurisdictions rather than operate in isolation.</Description>
    </Value>
    <Value>
      <Name>Efficiency</Name>
      <Description>Reduce delays, redundancies, and inefficiencies in public-sector analysis and decision support.</Description>
    </Value>
    <Value>
      <Name>Service</Name>
      <Description>Design tools around the real-world needs of public servants and the communities they serve.</Description>
    </Value>
    <Goal>
      <Name>Policy Intelligence</Name>
      <Description>Provide timely, actionable policy intelligence that helps leaders understand real-time priorities in communities across America.</Description>
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      <SequenceIndicator>1</SequenceIndicator>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Public leaders</Name>
        <Description>Use policy insights to support budgeting, policymaking, and public messaging.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Communities</Name>
        <Description>Benefit when decisions are better informed and more responsive to local conditions.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Priorities</Name>
        <Description>Reveal real-time policy priorities in communities by transforming meeting records into verified policy insights.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>1.1</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Decisions</Name>
        <Description>Help leaders understand what was decided, how decisions were framed, and what those decisions mean in context.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>1.2</SequenceIndicator>
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      <Objective>
        <Name>Outcomes</Name>
        <Description>Connect policy decisions to real-world outcomes so leaders can identify what is working in similar communities.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>1.3</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
    </Goal>
    <Goal>
      <Name>Decisions</Name>
      <Description>Accelerate and improve public decision-making by reducing the time and manual effort required to analyze local government policy activity.</Description>
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      <SequenceIndicator>2</SequenceIndicator>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>State policymakers</Name>
        <Description>Need cross-county and statewide insight to coordinate policy responses.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>County leaders</Name>
        <Description>Need evidence from peer jurisdictions to strengthen local fiscal and policy choices.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Nonprofit teams</Name>
        <Description>Need localized intelligence to target services and identify gaps in community efforts.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
        <Name>Campaigns and advisors</Name>
        <Description>Need grounded insight into community debates and concerns.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Analysis</Name>
        <Description>Cut analysis time by up to 90 percent so users can go from weeks of research to answers in a day.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>2.1</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Insights</Name>
        <Description>Enable faster decisions on budgeting, policy, and messaging through clear and timely insights.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>2.2</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Data</Name>
        <Description>Eliminate manual data gathering and transcript-by-transcript review in policy research workflows.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>2.3</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Reuse</Name>
        <Description>Help leaders stop reinventing the wheel by showing what is already working in similar communities.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>2.4</SequenceIndicator>
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    <Goal>
      <Name>Meetings</Name>
      <Description>Apply AI and social science methods to turn raw government meeting data into structured, searchable, and interpretable policy intelligence.</Description>
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      <SequenceIndicator>3</SequenceIndicator>
      <OtherInformation>GroundVue states that its approach is not another AI transcript tool. It emphasizes policy actions rather than transcripts, sociological analysis rather than AI alone, cross-jurisdictional learning rather than search alone, and design for public leaders rather than private interests.</OtherInformation>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Data</Name>
        <Description>Gather local government meeting data at scale from public sources across jurisdictions.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>3.1</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Insights</Name>
        <Description>Structure raw meeting data into searchable policy insights using AI and social science methods.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>3.2</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Patterns</Name>
        <Description>Connect decisions across communities to reveal patterns that no single jurisdiction can see alone.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>3.3</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Presentations</Name>
        <Description>Organize insights for the way public leaders actually work, including briefings, search, and monitoring.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>3.4</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Rationales &amp; Tradeoffs</Name>
        <Description>Surface why decisions were made and what rationales and tradeoffs shaped them through frame analysis rooted in social science.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>3.5</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
    </Goal>
    <Goal>
      <Name>Use Cases</Name>
      <Description>Support concrete public-purpose use cases in which leaders and advisors use policy intelligence to address recurring community challenges.</Description>
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      <SequenceIndicator>4</SequenceIndicator>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Planning</Name>
        <Description>Support statewide planning by helping policymakers understand how counties are handling issues such as data center development, zoning, infrastructure, and community sentiment.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>4.1</SequenceIndicator>
        <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
          <Name>State policymakers</Name>
          <Description>Use GroundVue to inform coordinated statewide policy.</Description>
        </Stakeholder>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Hospital Funding</Name>
        <Description>Support county executives in comparing approaches to improve public hospital funding and identifying evidence-backed practices from similar counties.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>4.2</SequenceIndicator>
        <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
          <Name>County leaders</Name>
          <Description>Use peer evidence to strengthen fiscal health and service delivery.</Description>
        </Stakeholder>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Food Insecurity</Name>
        <Description>Support nonprofit leaders in tracking how nearby cities address food insecurity, identifying gaps, and targeting services based on neighboring community actions.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>4.3</SequenceIndicator>
        <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
          <Name>Nonprofit teams</Name>
          <Description>Use policy intelligence to strengthen community food security efforts.</Description>
        </Stakeholder>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Messaging</Name>
        <Description>Support campaigns and advisors in analyzing debates about the economy, workforce programs, and job creation so messaging reflects actual community discussion rather than general polling alone.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>4.4</SequenceIndicator>
        <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group">
          <Name>Campaigns and advisors</Name>
          <Description>Use grounded community insight to shape public communications and strategy.</Description>
        </Stakeholder>
      </Objective>
    </Goal>
    <Goal>
      <Name>Infrastructure &amp; Capacity</Name>
      <Description>Build durable, trusted civic data infrastructure and organizational capacity to support long-term public-sector learning and better outcomes.</Description>
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      <SequenceIndicator>5</SequenceIndicator>
      <Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Organization">
        <Name>GroundVue, Inc.</Name>
        <Description>Serves as the organizational vehicle for building and sustaining the platform.</Description>
      </Stakeholder>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Data</Name>
        <Description>Build the country&apos;s most trusted data source for how public decisions are made.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>5.1</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Platform</Name>
        <Description>Leverage the founding team&apos;s experience in civic technology, policy, AI, data strategy, and public-sector systems to deliver the platform across federal, state, and local contexts.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>5.2</SequenceIndicator>
        <OtherInformation>The founding team includes Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer; Ann Lewis, Chief Technology Officer; and Travis Hoppe, Ph.D., Chief AI Officer.</OtherInformation>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Stewardship</Name>
        <Description>Operate as a public benefit corporation with nonprofit affiliation and mission-aligned funding to preserve trust and public-purpose orientation.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>5.3</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
      <Objective>
        <Name>Access &amp; Engagement</Name>
        <Description>Maintain channels for early access, progress follow-up, and stakeholder engagement for those wishing to learn more about GroundVue.</Description>
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        <SequenceIndicator>5.4</SequenceIndicator>
      </Objective>
    </Goal>
  </StrategicPlanCore>
  <AdministrativeInformation>
    <PublicationDate>2026-04-14</PublicationDate>
    <Source>https://www.groundvue.org/</Source>
    <Submitter>
      <GivenName>Owen</GivenName>
      <Surname>Ambur</Surname>
      <EmailAddress>Owen.Ambur@verizon.net</EmailAddress>
    </Submitter>
  </AdministrativeInformation>
</StrategicPlan>