Call City Hall at 5:01pm Nobody picks up Call on Saturday Nobody picks up That's the problem EffiGov is solving Abteen studied policy and computer science, worked in government, saw the gap firsthand Now he's building the 24/7 voice layer for local government Files requests, schedules appointments, sends the text that closes the loop They built a second AI agent that watches the first one and corrects it in real time Because in regulated environments the margin for error is thin Already live in Sumter County, Florida - 160,000 residents, 311 plus high-volume departments like animal services and building services His advice for founders selling to government: These are public servants who chose service over paychecks If you don't actually care, they'll know And you won't have the grit 🎙️ Aubteen Pour-Biazar (@AubteenPB), CEO & Cofounder, @EffiGov on the @fondocom @thestartpod 01:07 “Constituent interface” what EffiGov actually does 03:47 Selling to government: care about the mission 04:42 Who buys: the administrator/manager 05:57 Real deployment: 311 + departments; tickets, scheduling, SMS 06:11 Since YC: building for reliability 07:48 Agent-as-eval: the safety layer 08:17 Frontier models & the road to speech-to-speech