The AI Editing Assistant is designed to help you refine, polish, and clarify text directly within Web Central. It works best as a writing and editing companion—helping you save time on cleanup and formatting—while keeping you fully in control of the final content.
What the AI Editing Assistant Is Best At
The assistant is especially helpful when you already have notes or draft text and want to:
Improve grammar, clarity, and tone
Rewrite informal or rushed notes into professional minutes language
Summarize longer discussions into concise records
Simplify complex or technical language for public readability
Standardize wording across agenda items or minutes
It works only on the text you select or submit and focuses on improving how something is written—not deciding what should be included.
Best Practices
Start with your own text
Even short or informal notes give the assistant the context it needs. The AI does not create official records from scratch—it helps refine what you’ve written.
Be clear and specific in your prompt
Clear instructions produce better results than general requests.
More effective: “Rewrite this in formal, third-person minutes language.”
Less effective: “Make this better.”
Focus on one task at a time
Ask the assistant to do one thing per request (for example, summarize or fix grammar).
Work in smaller sections
Highlighting or submitting one section at a time often leads to clearer, more predictable results.
Always review before publishing
AI suggestions should be reviewed and adjusted as needed to ensure accuracy, appropriateness, and alignment with your municipality’s standards and policies.
Example Prompts
News or Announcements
“Write a website announcement from these internal notes.”
“Rewrite this announcement at a lower reading level.”
“Reformat this into key bullet points with a title.”
Alerts and Notifications
“Write a website alert banner under 140 characters that includes what’s impacted.”
“Rewrite this urgent notice to be clear and calm.”
“Write a website alert with a call to action.”
General Editing
“Fix grammar and punctuation.”
“Improve clarity and professionalism.”
“Rephrase this to sound more formal.”
A Helpful Mindset
The AI Editing Assistant is most effective when used to:
Reduce time spent updating and maintaining pages
Improve consistency and readability
Help you move from internal information to resident-ready content more quickly
You remain the expert. The assistant helps with wording and structure—you decide what’s accurate, appropriate, and ready to publish.