A number any Minnesotan can text — answered from the record, never a guess.

When you ask a chatbot about Minnesota today, part of the answer is already built from Minnesota journalism — and the newsroom that did the reporting gets no reader, no credit, no dollar. This prototype demonstrates the other way. Today it answers from hand-verified public records in four Minnesota places — your taxes, your streets, your schools, before decisions are final — and says "we don't know" about everything else. The full version would answer from nineteen years of MinnPost's own reporting: a plain answer, the story attached, and a person behind it who answers what the machine can't.

• Answered by an AI, clearly labeled, from official records only — in the real service, a journalist sees what it can't answer.
• Stores no phone numbers and no identity. Conversations keep 30 minutes of context under an anonymous code, then erase — text FORGET to erase now.
• A few messages a month. It interrupts almost never.
• Four verified places today — Woodbury, Detroit Lakes, Isanti, Mahnomen. Text REQUEST plus your town to vote for where it grows.
• It doesn't have a real name yet — on purpose. Minnesota named its snowplows and its flag; it can name this. Text it your idea.

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Try the simulator below — or text the real thing: (651) 705-4342