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Saved searches and alerts

Once you're signed in, the search page shows a Save search button. Click it, give the search a name, and pick how often you'd like alerts.

Cadence options

Cadence When you get an email
None Never — the search is saved for your reference only.
Immediate A short delay after a new matching speech is ingested (typically within an hour of the upstream legislature publishing).
Daily A single digest each morning if there are new matches.
Weekly A single digest each week if there are new matches.

You can change the cadence at any time from your saved searches page.

What's in the digest

Each alert email lists the matching speeches with:

  • Speaker name + party + jurisdiction
  • Date and a one-paragraph excerpt
  • A link straight to the speech in context

It does not include the full text of the speeches, partly to keep the emails readable, partly so the citations always live on the canonical site where they can be re-verified.

How "matching" is decided

When you save a search, we cache its semantic fingerprint at save time. The alerts worker then checks new speeches against that fingerprint — without re-asking the model every time. This means:

  • Alerts are fast and predictable.
  • The meaning of your saved search is frozen at the moment you saved it. If the way the model interprets language changes (rare but possible on model upgrades), your saved search keeps using the original interpretation.
  • If you want to "refresh" how a saved search is interpreted, just re-save it.

Filters (speaker, party, jurisdiction, date) are applied dynamically on each digest run, not frozen.

From the saved searches page:

  • Set cadence to None to keep the search but stop the emails.
  • Click the trash icon to delete it permanently.

Limits

  • A signed-in account can save up to 50 searches.
  • Immediate-cadence saved searches are capped at 20 to keep mailbox noise under control.
  • If you hit a limit, the UI explains which one and how to free up space.

Why no SMS or push?

We deliberately ship email-only alerts for now. Email gives you a permanent, searchable trail of what was reported and when — useful if you're using this for journalism or research. SMS and push are louder but less referenceable. We may add a webhook option for power users in the future; let us know if that would help your workflow.