Dustin Overbeck
Co-founder
Dustin has worked with local governments since 2007, when he founded Town Web and started building websites for small municipalities across the Midwest.
Find Dustin on LinkedInWhy the clerk
So much of a municipality's day crosses the clerk's desk
Agendas, minutes, licenses, permits, records requests, election paperwork, and public notices: nearly every piece of a town's daily work is processed by the clerk, or passes through the clerk's office on its way somewhere else.
Most government software gets sold to a purchasing department, and the clerk is handed a login afterward. We build in the opposite direction. The clerk is the person we design for, the person we listen to, and the person we answer to.
The founders
The two people behind the company
Andrei Igna
Co-founder & CTO
Andrei heads up engineering for everything HeyGov ships, from the first line of code to the newest AI features.
Find Andrei on LinkedInOur products
The products we build
Each product stands on its own, and they were all built by the same people to work together.
HeyGov
Forms, permits, licenses, and payments, moved online so residents can help themselves and staff get their counter time back.
ClerkMinutes
ClerkMinutes®
Agendas, minutes, and transcripts, drafted by AI and finished by the clerk. Hundreds of municipalities run their meetings on it.
Vanteve
An AI intern for the clerk's office that answers residents around the clock by phone, text, email, and web chat.
Our principles
What we believe in
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Powerful tools
Election week, budget season, the meeting where the whole town shows up: we engineer for the busiest days on the municipal calendar, not just the quiet ones.
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Intuitive to use
You should be productive the same day you sign up. If a product needs a consultant, a training binder, or a six-week rollout, we treat that as a defect and fix it.
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Affordable to purchase
Our prices are published on our websites, every product has a free trial, and your bill matches what the board approved. Nobody should have to call for a quote.
Where we come from
Midwestern values, through and through
HeyGov is headquartered in Wisconsin. We might be known for cheese, the Packers, and cold weather, but our hospitality is warm and friendly. We say please and thank you, we answer the phone, and when you email us, a real person replies quickly.
We would rather earn your renewal every single year than lock you into a long contract with built-in price increases. Plenty of vendors work that way. We think a handshake you keep re-earning is worth more.
And we plan in decades, not quarters. The goal is simple: carry the tedious parts of the job, so the clerk's work gets a little lighter every year.
Questions
Fair questions, straight answers
How can I reach out and get help or assistance?
However you like to ask, there is a door for it, and a real person on the other side:
- Pop into Office Hours, our live, open Q&A, every Thursday at 10:00 a.m. Central. Bring a question, leave with an answer.
- Book a demo for a one-on-one walkthrough at your own pace.
- Browse the help docs, which happily answer setup, recording, and billing questions at 2 a.m., no appointment needed.
- Email [email protected].
- Call us toll-free at 888-HEYGOV1 888-439-4681. Yes, a human answers.
Why should our municipality trust our agendas, meetings, and minutes to ClerkMinutes?
Because we are not a VC-backed or private-equity-backed rollup that cobbled together a system by buying tools from other providers and retrofitting them behind multiple logins. We are a profitable, independent company that has served local government, and nothing else, since 2007.
We build software for clerks by talking to clerks. That focus is what makes us different: solutions to the real-world problems clerks face on a regular basis, and more than 1,300 cities, villages, towns, and counties working with us today.
What does “built in-house” actually get us?
One login, one support team, and products that were designed to work together from the start. When you call, the people who wrote the software are down the hall, not at a company we bought last year.
See for yourself
The fastest way to understand what we build is to try it. No sales call required, and no credit card either.