ClearGov API
ClearGov has effectively no public API; the only documented surface is a widget API that embeds ClearGov-hosted charts on a municipality's website. Data onboarding is manual, with ClearGov staff mapping customer spreadsheets, and there is no developer portal, key issuance, or sandbox.
Frequently asked questions
ClearGov scores D on the API Report Card. ClearGov has effectively no public API; the only documented surface is a widget API that embeds ClearGov-hosted charts on a municipality's website. Data onboarding is manual, with ClearGov staff mapping customer spreadsheets, and there is no developer portal, key issuance, or sandbox.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
ClearGov is a cloud-based Budget Cycle Management platform for U.S. local governments and school districts.
Government / Public Sector, specifically U.S. municipalities, counties, towns, special districts, and K-12 school districts running an annual budget cycle on top of (rather than inside) a general-ledger ERP such as Tyler Munis/Enterprise ERP, BS&A, Edmunds, OpenGov ERP, or Infor. A municipal finance director or school-district business manager kicks off the annual budget cycle by importing the prior year's actuals and current-year encumbrances from the ERP (Tyler Munis, BS&A, Edmunds, etc.) into ClearGov, typically via a CSV/Excel export hand-mapped by ClearGov's onboarding team rather than a live API connection.
Medium. ClearGov reports 1,700+ combined customers post-Gravity merger, with the legacy ClearGov base alone cited at 'hundreds in 26 states' and a leadership claim of 350 combined employees per LinkedIn-sourced data.
ClearGov holds the multi-year financial planning record of a local government or school district: every department's operational budget request and line-item justification, every capital-improvement project with multi-year funding schedules and asset assumptions, every personnel/position-control forecast including salary, step-grade, benefits, and FTE counts, every iteration of the approved budget across rounds of revisions, the consolidated Digital Budget Book artifacts (ACFR, PAFR, CIP book, annual report) with narrative content and visuals, and the public-facing Transparency Center datasets, infographics, charts, polls, surveys, and SMS-based resident-feedback flows, that the municipality has been representing to its residents as the authoritative public record.
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ClearGov's marketing explicitly disavows API-based ERP integration, framing the absence of live connectors as a benefit ('zero impact on your budgeting software' when the ERP changes), which is also the absence of any programmatic data path for the customer. Customer integration onboarding is done by ClearGov's experts mapping customer-provided spreadsheets, not via a self-serve developer surface, every ERP refresh requires re-running the manual mapping rather than an automated sync. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include OpenGov Budgeting & Planning, Tyler Technologies (Enterprise ERP / Munis), Euna Solutions (formerly Questica / GTY), Workiva, Gravity (now combined with ClearGov), Sherpa (CentralSquare). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial ClearGov API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write ClearGov data. See the ClearGov integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/cleargov-api.