I have spent most of the day working on my Milwaukee Budget Decoder web app. It takes the Mayor's proposed 2027 budget and turns it into a civic engagement tool that helps Milwaukeeans understand what's in the budget and how it affects them.
I built it with Claude Code using their latest model, Opus 5.5. I built a RAG system for the budget documents, which is hosted by Neon in a vector database.
I included a feature for Milwaukeeans to provide a 'tax receipt' based on where you live (connected to MPROP data from the city).
I also built an agent powered by the Mastra agent framework that integrates with a generative UI chat interface powered by
@CopilotKit and OpenUI. Frontend hosted on
@Vercel.
The site will be live soon. The code will be open-source and available on GitHub. It also works on smartphones!
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