Finland has 108 cities and 200 municipalities, each with its own decision-making bodies led by politicians and/or municipal officials. This generates thousands of public records every month from municipal council, board, and local government meetings, creating an enormous database of decision-making documents that is impossible for anyone to follow in detail. Journalists are working hard to keep up with this information, but the sheer volume makes it an overwhelming task. How could we create a tool to help journalists identify the most important municipal decisions and plans, enabling them to produce insightful stories and hold decision-makers accountable? How might AI be used to scan these vast collections of documents for the most influential decisions, illegal procedures, odd budgeting practices, or other anomalies? How should the tool visualise this information and highlight potentially interesting topics for journalists? The goal is not for AI to write stories – that remains the journalist’s role – but to increase transparency and guide journalists toward the hidden stories unfolding every week across Finland.