For Australian and New Zealand councils

The data and AI platform for local government

GDATA turns your council's data into a source of truth for AI, so anyone on your team can ask a question and get an answer they can trust.

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  • Uses each person's existing access
  • Shows the query behind every answer
  • ISO 27001 certified
G-BotExample City Council
Which directorates went over their adopted budget in FY2025/26?

G-Bot

TechnologyOne Finance Your access applied

Three directorates went over. Infrastructure had the largest variance: $4.82m (6.1%) over its adopted budget, mainly from storm-recovery road works. Council finished $5.36m (2.8%) over overall.

Expenditure variance vs adopted budgetOverUnder
  • Infrastructure+$4.82m
  • Community Services+$2.12m
  • Corporate Services+$0.58m
  • City Futures−$0.77m
  • City Planning−$1.39m
View source query
EVALUATE
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
  'Directorate'[Name],
  "Adopted", [Adopted Budget],
  "Actual", [Total Expenditure],
  "Variance", [Expenditure Variance]
)
TechnologyOne Finance
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How it works

From source system to an answer you can trace.

The DaaS Platform (Data as a Service) connects to your council's systems, ingests and models the data, and adds your business logic in a semantic model that G-Bot reads. Security, permissions, governance and audit wrap every step, so any answer can be traced back to the record it came from.

The DaaS Platform connects to council source systems, ingests the raw data, models it into tested tables, adds business logic in a semantic model, and connects G-Bot to it. Security, permissions, governance, audit and compliance wrap every step. G-Bot's answer that Infrastructure is $4.82 million over budget is then traced back through the semantic model, the data model and the raw data to a TechnologyOne Finance ledger line.

SecurityPermissionsGovernanceAuditComplianceLineage
01 · Source systems
TechnologyOneFinancegl_transactionsGL 4410-220 · $184,220
PathwayProperty & ratingassessments
CivicaAssetsasset_register
Legacy databasesOn-premises SQLpermits
SpreadsheetsExcel & CSVcapex_plan.xlsx
02 · IngestRaw landing
  • raw_t1_gl_txn
  • raw_pathway
  • raw_civica
  • raw_legacy
  • raw_capex
Scheduled · monitored
03 · ModelModelled data
  • fct_expendituretested
  • dim_directoratetested
  • dim_accounttested
  • dim_assettested
Tested · documented
04 · Semantic layerSemantic modelTechnologyOne Finance
  • [Adopted Budget]
  • [Total Expenditure]
  • [Expenditure Variance]= [Total Expenditure] − [Adopted Budget]
Owned by data stewards
05 · AIG-BotExample City Council

Which directorates went over their adopted budget?

Infrastructure is $4.82m (6.1%) over its adopted budget.

Query · sourcesTracing lineage…Traced to source ✓
Your access · every question logged
  • Raw data
  • Modelled and tested
  • Ready for AI
  • Lineage trace

Any figure traces back through every step to its source record.

PermissionsEach person's existing access, enforced end to end
LineageEvery figure traced back to its source table
StewardsA named owner for every dataset and measure
AuditEvery question and data view logged
G-Bot · How it answers

An answer you can check, not just believe.

Finance systems are where answers go to hide. G-Bot lets a director ask in plain English and get the figure, the explanation and the query behind it. It comes with the DaaS Platform or on its own.

  1. 01Question in plain English
  2. 02Council definitions applied
  3. 03Read-only query, checked against your access
  4. 04Answer, table and source
Services

We make AI work inside your council.

We don't hand over software and leave. GDATA's team works with yours to deliver data and AI initiatives that save staff time. The DaaS Platform is what stays behind.

  1. Find the value. We pick the questions and processes where AI will save your staff the most time.
  2. Build the foundation. We connect your systems, model the data and set up the semantic layer and governance.
  3. Put AI to work. G-Bot goes live for your teams, we train them, and we keep improving it with you.

ISO 27001 certified · Hosted in Australia · MavTech Award winner

“Having a single source of truth is really important for us. We're all using the same data set.”
Zac ArcherBusiness Systems Coordinator, Latrobe City CouncilWatch on YouTube

Also from GDATA: MyCity CRM. The CRM for councils, including One Customer View: every resident's history across your systems on one screen.

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