How fast do you want day one?
Standard runs on your town's own
processor at no extra cost. Faster options spin up a separate,
temporary burst machine just for day one — your monthly processor
and its price never change with this choice. A bigger machine for
less time rents for nearly the same dollars (hourly cloud billing),
so what you're choosing is wall-clock. Burst hours bill in whole
started hours; the machine is destroyed when ingest finishes.
How Lore organizes your records
Every document lands in one of these sections, gets
OCR'd if it's a scan, and becomes searchable alongside the town's
email archive. Meeting recordings come in as transcripts.
How your files live
Box — document custody, the system of record (your town's own account)
└── Your Town/
├── Minutes & Agendas/
├── Ordinances & Policies/
├── Budgets & Finance/
├── Permits, Licenses & Forms/
├── Land, Zoning & Property/
├── Elections & Voting/
├── Meeting Recordings/ → transcripts, kept beside the audio
└── General Town Records/
Your processor — one isolated droplet per town, nothing shared
├── postgres/ document text + metadata (the searchable copy)
├── qdrant/ the search index (meaning + keyword lanes)
├── towndata/ working files and uploads
└── backups → encrypted, offsite, restored on a drill schedule
Originals stay in Box under your town's name — hand
the folder back any day, no exit fees. The processor holds only the
search index; one town per processor, always.