🏛 The Cambridge Record

How accurate is this site?

Audited 2026-07-12 · sample seed 20260712 · raw results (CSV) · audit code

This site is assembled by software (much of it AI-written) from the city's own portals. Software makes mistakes, so we measure ours in public: we drew 1,000 agenda items at random — with a fixed, published random seed, so anyone can re-draw the identical sample — fetched the city's live page for each, and compared field by field.

1,000/1,000city pages resolved 100.0%tracking codes correct 100.0%titles content-identical 48/48sampled attachments resolve

What we compared

Every deviation found (4)

ItemTypeExplanation
ORD 2023 # 9tracking formatthe city displays a space after # (“ORD 2023 # 9”) our parser didn't expect — content identical
ORD 2025 # 8tracking formatthe city displays a space after # (“ORD 2025 # 8”) our parser didn't expect — content identical
RES 2024 #82date displaywe date it to its meeting (2024-04-29); the portal displays the clerk's action date, one day later (past-midnight adjournment)
RES 2024 #90date displaywe date it to its meeting (2024-04-29); the portal displays the clerk's action date, one day later (past-midnight adjournment)

Method, honestly

The comparison is against what the city's portal displays today — if the clerk edits a record after we capture it, that surfaces here as a deviation. The auditor is software too, so the code and raw results above exist for checking the checker. This page regenerates with every audit run. Found something wrong anyway? Every page has an error-report link in its footer — corrections are public.