Best-Edit CIVIC
The communications platform for government, nonprofits, and public affairs.
Paste a release. Get the read a veteran press secretary would give it: what reporters need, what a records request would expose, what a quote will cost you. Then check it against your own documents, transcribe the meeting, and publish to your site.
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Everything your communications office needs.
From first draft to published post. One standard, applied every time.
Editorial Review
Every release, statement and notice gets the same sectioned read: headline, lede, strategic messaging, structure, quotes, risk assessment, tactical recommendations. Written to what reporters actually use, with the reasons. Your quotes are never altered; any language we suggest is marked as requiring your approval.
Records-Risk Read
The review calls out language that will not survive a public-records request: internal deliberations, personal phone numbers and home addresses, partisan framing, unverified superlatives. Each is quoted, with the reason and the fix.
Check Facts
One click compares the draft with the documents you attached and reports what is supported, with the source line quoted, what is unsupported, and what could not be anchored. Nothing you supplied is changed.
Plain Language
Jargon, passive voice and 60-word sentences get rewritten so a resident can read them and a reporter can lift them.
Audio Recording Transcription
Drop in the recording or the meeting link. Best-Edit returns the transcript, checks the names and spellings against your roster, finds the stories in it, pulls the quotes, and sends it to the review.
Publish to Your Site
Publish to WordPress or Newspack, send drafts to Arc XP, or we connect your system
Public-Records Request Letters
The FOIA Hub drafts a request that cites the statute, deadline, fee-waiver provision and appeal path for any of the 50 states or the federal government, with a saved agency contact book.
From Transcript to Stories
Send a meeting transcript to the review and it cleans up the transcript, finds the stories in it, and drafts from it with the quotes traced back to the transcript. A four-hour board meeting becomes a story list before the coffee is cold.
From council chamber to published story.
A real workflow: record a meeting, transcribe it, draft a press release, check it against the transcript, and publish to your website. All in one place.
- Record Record your council meeting, press conference, or interview.
- Transcribe Upload the audio or paste the meeting link. Every speaker labeled, every line timed.
- Rename Speakers Click any speaker label to replace 'Speaker 1' with 'Mayor Johnson' or 'Chief Williams.'
- Send to Editor One click sends the transcript to the review. Draft a press release, pull the action items, or write a summary.
- Review & Check Read the sectioned review, then press Check facts against the transcript.
- Publish Send the finished draft to WordPress or Newspack as a draft or a live post, or to Arc XP as a draft, from the screen you wrote it on. Running another system? We build the connection.
"For the press secretaries. For the city managers. For every public servant who believes clear communication is a public good."
Built for teams.
Invite your whole communications staff. Consistent editorial standards across every department, every release, every time.
Team Seats
Invite members by email. Manage seats from one dashboard.
Team publishing
Your team sends to WordPress or Newspack as a draft or a live post, or to Arc XP as a draft. Other systems are connected on request.
Feature Controls
An administrator switches add-on tools on per team.
Professional communications. No PR agency required.
Everything above, on one plan. Try it free for seven days.
- Sectioned editorial review on every draft, written to what reporters use
- Check facts against your own documents, with the source line quoted
- Audio recording transcription with every speaker labeled
- Public-records request letters for all 50 states and the federal government
- Publish to your site or hand off the file
- Team seats so the whole comms office works to one standard
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