We started ClerkDesk after watching a friend clerk her parish council around a full-time job. The meeting was the easy bit. It was everything afterwards that ate her evenings.
Aparish clerk holds a peculiar kind of responsibility. Part-time hours, often just a few a week, and yet the full legal weight of the council's public record, its accounts and its governance all rest on one pair of shoulders.
The minutes are a statutory document. The accounts must answer to an external auditor. The proper officer is, more often than not, one person at a kitchen table on a weekday evening, fitting it around a day job and a family.
We didn't think that person needed a flashy platform or a reinvention of local government. They needed the slow, repetitive parts taken off their plate: turning a recording into a tidy draft, keeping the record in order, walking calmly into year-end. So that's what we built, and nothing more.
ClerkDesk is deliberately quiet software. It does its job, leaves every decision and every final word with you, and gets out of the way. We think that's what serious tools for serious responsibilities ought to do.
We draft, suggest and tidy. We never publish, send or sign anything. The judgement and the final word stay firmly with you, every time.
Kept in the UK, accessible only to your council, never sold and never used to train tools for anyone else. Your meetings stay your business.
One fair price, a free tier that stays free, and no growth-hacking nonsense. We'd rather earn a long relationship than chase a quick sign-up.
Public records deserve careful handling. Here's exactly how we treat yours, in plain terms.
Your recordings and documents are stored on UK infrastructure, never moved offshore.
Access is limited to the people you invite. No one else, including us, browses your record.
We don't sell data and don't use your meetings to train tools for other customers.
Export everything whenever you like, and ask us to delete it in full if you leave.
Questions about year-end, a tricky set of minutes, or whether ClerkDesk would suit your council? Drop us a line, or book a friendly call. No sales script, we promise.
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