About LocalCode
The Mission
Municipal law is not a document you simply read. It is a system you have to resolve.
A basic development question can pull in zoning standards, overlays, definitions, amendments, cross references, and the version of each rule controlling on the relevant date. The answer rarely lives in one place. It has to be assembled. And it has to hold up.
LocalCode is building a Legislative Intelligence Platform that turns fragmented municipal code into structured, source backed intelligence.
Our approach keeps source text, normalized legal meaning, machine readable rules, and reviewed intelligence separate by design. AI can make the work faster. It cannot turn inference into fact.
Every conclusion remains connected to the controlling provision, source evidence, verification status, and applicable date.
The value is straightforward: less time searching through disconnected material, faster time to answer, and a clear record of how the answer was reached.
The Operator
I have spent more than two decades building public record data systems where accuracy, traceability, and operational discipline were not optional.
I co founded TexasFile and helped build statewide public record infrastructure across all 254 Texas counties and more than a billion historical records. That meant working through incomplete source material, inconsistent formats, and constantly changing systems. The data had to be usable. More importantly, it had to be right.
I later founded Clerk Records, which Energy Domain acquired in 2025. I continue to serve as a strategic advisor and contribute to TitleLab's work in title intelligence.
The lesson has been consistent across each business: a polished answer without a reliable source trail is not intelligence. It is exposure.
LocalCode brings that same discipline to municipal law. We use AI where it helps, then constrain it through structured schemas, verified sources, explicit relationships, and review gates.
The goal is not to generate more text. It is to make the law faster to understand and harder to misstate.
The Future
Live in Austin today. Dallas and Denver on the roadmap.
The architecture is built for national scale. Expansion will remain disciplined, one jurisdiction at a time, with provenance intact.
I also work selectively with commercial developers, entitlement consultants, land use attorneys, and PropTech leaders who are dealing with these problems now.
— Jason B. Smith
Founder, LocalCode.ai