ARGUS

Report civic issues. Track them to resolved.

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Developers: Three people
Languages: EN+4 more
Platform: iOSand Android

Preview

The civic feed showing reported streetlight faults with AI priority scores and status badges

The map of Western Sydney with photo pins on reported issues across Blacktown, Wetherill Park and Bankstown

The report wizard on its audio-first first step, a record button with the option to attach a photo instead

A photo of a damaged power pole with an AI banner suggesting the Safety Hazard category at 85 percent confidence and explaining why

The describe step with the title and category already filled in from the AI suggestion

The locate step, a map pinned on Blacktown with a public visibility toggle and a submit button

The confirmation screen reading Report submitted, with the issue ID and a link to view it on the feed

Hey Argus answering a spoken question about the nearest pantry, returning a result card for the Blacktown Food Relief Collective with its distance, hours and call button

The council feed with alerts published by Liverpool, Parramatta and Penrith councils

The pantries tab, listing community food relief locations with distance, opening categories and referral status

The services tab with the category filter sheet open, offering mental health, legal aid, domestic violence support and other categories

The language picker showing English, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese, with the feed behind it already translated into Chinese

The ARGUS reels tab, a short video feed introducing the app

Hold the mic and say what you saw, or photograph it. The phone tags where you are, and the report lands on a public feed and a map instead of a council inbox nobody can see into. The failure it targets is not that councils ignore people, it is that nothing is ever on the record, so twenty complaints never add up to one loud one.more

Reels, map and feed, so a suburb can see its own backlog
Safety incidents on their own layer, with moderation states
Pantries, shelters and services on the same map
Hey Argus answers questions and files a report by voice
Councils publish back, and a status change reaches whoever reported it
Five languages, translated the moment a report is submitted

A closer look

About us

3of us

WSTI HackathonApril 2026

Who did what

Tommy Tran

scoring, map, voice agent

Deduplication and priority scoring: embeddings cluster near-duplicates, so ten reports of one pothole raise the priority of one instead of filling the map. Hey Argus, the spoken help agent: the spec, three implementation plans, and the whole mobile side. The map and everything on it: report pins, safety incidents, profile badges, pantries, shelters and services, plus the alerts that fire when one lands nearby. The council feed, where a council posts and it reaches the people it affects.

Gylles Varga

AI, submission, design

The agent behind Hey Argus: a tool layer the model calls to search issues, pantries, shelters and services, and to file a report from a spoken sentence. The submission pipeline it sits on, where Whisper transcribes the voice note, GPT-4o reads the photo, and the form opens already filled in. Five languages, translated the moment a report lands, so the feed never waits on a translation call. The design system the app runs on, down to the pre-commit rule that rejects a hardcoded colour.

Meenu

council dashboard, languages, status loop

The dashboard council staff work in: auth, the report queue, and status updates. The wiring that carries a status change out of that dashboard and back to the one resident who filed the report. The idea Argus started from, and the one who stood up and pitched it to the room. The language layer the whole app runs through, five locales, the switcher and the provider.

App Privacy

Data linked to your report

Attached to what you submit, not to you, unless you sign your name to it:

Location

Photos

Voice note

Description

Photo metadata is stripped before upload, so an image never carries the exact spot it was taken. Reports can be filed anonymously, and there are no advertising identifiers or third-party analytics.

Accessibility

Every control carries a screen reader label and a role, and nothing is smaller than a 48px target. Voice is the default way in, for people who will not fill in a form, and the app follows the device language across five locales.

Information

Category: Civic
Languages: English, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese
Data: Postgres with PostGIS, location as a generated point column, GiST indexed, schema in versioned migrations
Deduplication: vector(1536) embeddings, ivfflat cosine index, matched at 0.86 within 100m
Priority score: Severity base adjusted by AI confidence, raised by each duplicate
Voice agent: Hey Argus, multilingual, calls tools and answers from what they return
Models: GPT-4o, Whisper, text-embedding-3-small
Built with: Expo, React Native, TypeScript, React, Vite, Supabase, PostGIS, pgvector, Deno