Emerging tech is here.
Councils can be ready.
CityConnect helps councils engage early with emerging technologies already operating in and around cities. It provides a governed, practical path to participate safely—before complexity, cost, and risk compound.
Built by Practitioners
CityConnect is led by practitioners with experience across government, infrastructure, and regulated technology environments. We focus on the operational and governance realities councils face—not theoretical solutions or technology demos.
Infrastructure Expertise
Experience with long-lived public systems—where decisions made today shape cost, flexibility, and risk for years to come.
Multi-Agency Coordination
Understanding how councils, operators, insurers, and partners interact—and where unmanaged growth creates friction, compliance risk, or failure.
Public Sector Constraints
Designing within public-sector constraints: governance, accountability, auditability, and staged adoption.
Core Principles
The principles that guide how we work with councils.
Operational Complexity
Emerging technologies do not arrive neatly packaged. CityConnect is built around the reality that adoption happens incrementally and must be managed, not resisted.
Security First
Governance, access control, and data stewardship are treated as foundational requirements—supporting responsible participation rather than reactive enforcement.
Local Support
Councils gain access to expertise and ongoing platform evolution without needing to design or maintain bespoke solutions internally.
Long-term Accountability
Designed to evolve alongside technology and regulation, so councils can benefit from improvements without repeated reinvention.
Factual & Understated
Clear scope, measurable progress, and real operational outcomes—without hype, pilot theatre, or technology for its own sake.
Procurement Ready
Designed to support staged engagement, pilots, and governance processes—so councils can move forward at their own pace.
Ready to discuss your council's needs?
Request a short briefing to discuss readiness, governance, and what a bounded pilot could look like for your council.