How Houston Team Leader Katie Day Used Claude to Scan City Filings
Published October 26, 2026 · Source: BAM
Katie Day, who leads the #MOVEMETOTX team at REAL, has Claude scan Houston city council websites for planning agendas and plat filings and send back summaries. She then picks the stories herself and uses AI to draft scripts, which she edits into her own voice.
From the original
I have it searching the Houston city council websites for planning agendas and plat filings and different stuff like that and giving me kind of a summary of the things that are happening because there’s so many different things that are being filed and talked about and most of them aren’t newsworthy, but I want it to kind of comb through them and also remind me when the meetings are
What they did
Katie Day leads the #MOVEMETOTX team at REAL. According to BAM, she built her Houston Unlocked Instagram account to 46,500 followers by covering Houston news and new developments. She described her research system in a conversation with The Broke Agent. She uses ChatGPT and Claude for research and scripting, and Claude scans Houston city council websites for her.
How it worked
Day says Claude searches the city council websites for planning agendas, plat filings and similar items, then sends her a summary of what has been filed. She also has it remind her when meetings are coming up so she can read the physical agendas herself, because, in her words, "AI might miss something that's actually a big deal to the people of Houston."
BAM reports that she picks the stories herself and reads the original sources. Once she knows what she wants to cover, she gives an AI tool bullet points from a news article or city council update and asks for a draft script. Then she edits the draft into her own voice. The source doesn't say which tool writes the drafts or how the Claude searches are set up.
How to try it on your listings
These steps are our suggestions, not part of Day's story:
- Point an AI assistant at your own city council or county permit office pages and ask for a short summary of new filings near your listings.
- Read the original documents before you post anything. Treat the AI summary as a lead to check, not a source you can cite.
- Pick the stories yourself and rewrite any AI draft so it sounds like you.