Reeve is a compliance and procedure assistant and in-house training tool, built specifically for UK local government — grounded in the Procurement Act 2023, the Local Government Act, the Bribery and Fraud Acts, and once loaded with your own council's constitution, scheme of delegation and financial regulations. Reeve answers in context from various perspectives, based on your council's documentation.
For Councillors
Reduces the risk that lands on the front page
Real governance failures — Croydon's Brick by Brick collapse, Thurrock, Woking — are built into Reeve's training scenarios, so officers rehearse the failure modes before they happen, not after an audit finds them.
A documented evidence trail: every training conversation is real engagement with a real scenario, not a certificate nobody remembers earning.
Each council's Reeve is fully separate infrastructure — never shared with another authority, never a single point of failure across councils.
A responsible, low-risk way to use AI in the council
No conversation content is ever stored — sessions are private and leave no record, unlike a general-purpose chatbot.
Answers ground themselves in your council's actual documents, not the model's general training — and say so plainly when something isn't in there.
A visible, defensible choice: adopting a purpose-built tool for statutory duty is a stronger governance story than staff quietly using consumer AI tools unsupervised.
For Officers & Staff
Personal protection and structured team training
Built for the people who carry personal liability — Section 151 Officers, Procurement Officers, Monitoring Officers — not a generic assistant repurposed for the job.
Cites the specific statute, section or table every time — Procurement Act 2023 thresholds, ECCTA "failure to prevent fraud," your own constitution's Table 6 — so you can check it yourself, not just trust it.
Doubles as an in-house training tool: run a team through a real scenario, log the date, topic and attendees, and build a genuine CPD record — evidence of real engagement, not a certificate nobody remembers earning.
Genuinely useful day to day
Upload a PDF — a contract, a policy, a constitution amendment — straight into a conversation or the knowledge base; no retyping.
Ask in plain language: "Can I award this contract without a full tender?", "What's the referendum threshold on this year's council tax rise?", "Is this a conflict of interest?"
Voice readback for hands-free use, and a private per-officer login — free from account creation you have to manage yourself.
Why This, Why Now
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Full-load, not lossy search. Reeve reads the whole knowledge base every time, so it can never silently skip a statute the way keyword or vector search sometimes does — a deliberate choice for a compliance-critical domain.
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Your council's own layer. National law sits alongside your constitution and local rules in the same answer, so officers get the statutory floor and the local rule together, not two separate lookups.
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Prepare changes privately, switch safely. A council facing reorganisation, a new legal duty, or a leadership change can build and test the next version of Reeve in private, then go live with one action — and revert instantly if needed.
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Never shared, never mixed. Every council gets its own fully isolated deployment — own database, own storage, own access — the same discipline a council would expect from any system holding its own records.
Local government reorganisation is currently paused nationwide, under rapid ministerial review. Reeve is a tool that can hold today's rules and regulations, but quietly prepare for tomorrow's, without disruption.
A short working demonstration, using your own council's real questions, is the fastest way to see whether this is genuinely useful — not a slide deck.