Esper offers a policy management platform that enables governments to draft, track, and manage public policies from a centralized dashboard. This technology streamlines the policymaking process, enhances transparency, and improves compliance by automating workflows and providing a searchable database of regulations.
Funding
$23.8M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Government agencies often struggle with inefficient, manual processes for drafting, tracking, and managing public policies, leading to a lack of transparency and difficulties in ensuring compliance. Existing systems often lack the necessary tools for collaboration, version control, and comprehensive policy research.
Solution
Esper provides a cloud-based policy management platform designed to streamline the entire policymaking lifecycle for government agencies. The platform offers tools for collaborative policy drafting, allowing policymakers to create templates, track versions, and collect feedback from stakeholders. It also features a searchable database of regulations and laws, enabling agency staff to conduct advanced searches and side-by-side comparisons. Esper automates internal workflows, tracks key milestones, and provides configurable user permissions and notifications to ensure efficient project management and compliance.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as public safety organizations, seeking to modernize their policymaking processes and improve transparency and compliance.
Features
- Collaborative policy drafting with version control and feedback collection
- Centralized, searchable database of state and federal regulations and laws
- Automated task-based assignments and approval workflows
- Configurable user permissions and notifications
- Project management dashboard to track key milestones and deadlines
- Integration with existing systems through API
- Ability to export rulemakings into Microsoft Word documents
- Real-time collaboration through in-document chat functionality