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The DataWorks Commons is free to use on this site. For a city, a county, a nonprofit, a foundation, a university or any organization that wants it inside its own dashboards, its AI assistant or the AI tools its team already uses, we sell three services, priced by the size of the community you serve, per year. The data stays free; what you pay for is the connection and the people who keep it running.
What we sell
We connect your dashboards, apps and reports to the DataWorks Commons and keep those connections running. A REST API with the same endpoints and response shapes as Google Data Commons, plus the DataWorks indicators on top, read with one key for your organization.
API guide →The Ask chat on this site for your team: questions answered with cited figures and quick charts, without limit. Ten seats come with it; each extra seat is one more member of your team.
Open the assistant →Free to try with a few questions; a seat removes the limit.
The DataWorks Commons inside the AI tools your team already uses, Claude, ChatGPT or a code editor, to write reports and grants, spot problems and opportunities and build strategies. Each member signs in with their own work email; every answer carries its source.
Connect your AI →Any two services together are Commons Select; all three are Commons Pro. A City Partner adds city data services: we build and keep the sources a city needs beyond the public ones, with higher limits and priority support. Every paying account reads all public data for any place; an organization's own Insights, its row-level data and the data built for it are its own.
Getting started
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Email us with your organization and the services you want. We set the account up and name your admin.
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Your admin signs in to the portal with a Google or Microsoft work account, makes the organization's key and adds each member's email as a seat.
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Dashboards and apps read with the key; your team asks in the chat; your AI tools connect with one address. Nothing is metered by the call.
Pricing
Cities by population: small under 50,000 people, mid-sized to 250,000, large above. Nonprofits pay small-city prices for any service. Foundations, universities, counties and other institutions take Commons Pro across every city, from one price. Sponsors fund a City Partnership for a community and are recognized as its data sponsor. Tell us who you are and we will send the sheet.
Ask for the price sheet