What happens to your information
Worth reading before you start. It is the same statement that appears in the Document Studio.
Universal Council Baseline Metadata
Captured ONCE per session. Automatically populates baseline council governance facts across all 10 document prompts.
Recorded as the officer accountable for the document. It appears in section 1 of the Preparation document and signs section 8. Left blank, both record as [VERIFY] and the document goes to Council unsigned.
Recorded in section 1 of the Preparation document. Your council needs the system named to complete a FAIRA components analysis and to meet its automated decision-making transparency obligations. Left blank, it records as [VERIFY].
This tool states no threshold of its own. Name the policy and the date it was adopted, not just the figure — that is what lets the Preparation document record it as Officer Confirmed against a named document rather than as an unchecked entry. Left blank, every threshold reference records as [VERIFY].
Choosing the AI account you paste into
Project Context
Dictate or type project context. These three answers populate the [CURRENT_STATE], [TARGET_STATE] and [BACKGROUND] blocks that every document draws on.
Declared against this project, not once for all time. Covers you, whoever prepares this document, and any external consultant. Left blank it records as [VERIFY] — the tool will not record a nil return you did not make.
Prefer to talk it through?
Copy the interview prompt into any AI and answer out loud. It asks one question at a time and reads each answer back to you before moving on, so you catch a misheard figure or an Act reference before it reaches a council document. When it finishes, paste its answer block back here and every field above fills in. Typing the fields yourself works just as well — this is the faster path, not the required one.
1. Copy the prompt and paste it into Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
2. Answer each question by voice or keyboard. Correct anything it reads back wrongly.
3. Copy everything between its marker lines and paste it below.
Nothing is filled in until you press the button. Anything the interview left as [VERIFY] is skipped rather than written over an answer you already typed.
Import Session File
Upload a session file exported by this tool — its name ends _CouncilLightSession_<date>.json. It restores the council baseline, the project context, the research findings and every document answer. A DNA file exported before 20/09/2026 still loads; it carries no document answers.
Module 1: Resolved Executive Decisions
Override or specify explicit executive choices (e.g. Preferred Option #2, Confidentiality under s.10A(2), Officer Recommendation).
Module 2: Google Regional Lookup Seeds
Click a seed button to copy a targeted search query for statutory compliance, then paste key research findings below.
Only facts pasted here may be used for regional, statutory, benchmarking and procurement claims. Anything absent is written as [VERIFY] rather than estimated.
The same file as the button on the Council DNA tab. One session file holds the baseline, the project context, the research findings and every document answer. (D56)
Select Target Document Type
Choose one of the 10 core council documents. Each compiles two prompts — Step 1 for the Preparation document and Step 2 for the Final document — or, if you choose One prompt, a single prompt that returns both.
New to Council Light? Read the Quick Start (PDF, 4 pages) for the steps and the right way to use Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot.
Want to see the output first? The Coralvale case study publishes all 20 files from one Claude run: a Preparation working paper and a Final document for each of the 10 types.
Document questions
Export Session File saves the council baseline, the project context, the research findings and the document questions answered on this tab. It is the same file as the buttons on the other two tabs — this is just the last point in the workflow where all three are complete.