Understand your municipality to change it
You have more power than you think.
Plans, budgets and local data already say a great deal about what is possible — and about where exactly you can make a difference. SustainBridge makes that information available in plain language, with sources you can check. So you can see how to influence decisions and results.
The tool is built for Norwegian municipalities, and every one of them is already loaded — log in from anywhere in the country. That is also why it is useful to everyone else who sets out to influence a municipality: you are all working from the same material.
Example: a question about Steinkjer, answered with the municipality's own documents as the source.
What you get
Three tasks you get done straight away
Every Norwegian municipality and county authority is already loaded. No installation, no integration and no help from IT to get started — the municipality's documents are in place before you log in for the first time. You can also add your organisation’s own working material — drafts, proposals, presentations and answers to political questions — and get feedback on structure and professional coherence.
Look it up — what does it actually say?
Ask the question in plain language: what do our plans say about this? The answer is built on the municipality's own plans and strategies, and shows which document each statement comes from.
See the connections — who does it concern?
What looks like one sector's issue is almost always shared. You see which areas a measure touches — public health, childhood and education, culture, business, land use — and who has a role in each of them.
Use it in a case — can you stand behind it?
You get a basis you can check yourself, with the sources in place — ready to go into a committee report, an application or a consultation response, and ready for someone to ask where it came from.
The municipality's tasks
How it is used in an ordinary working week
Eighteen tasks a municipality actually faces. Every one is answered from the municipality's own adopted material and from current laws and regulations, with sources you can check.
Understand the municipality
Which needs are documented here? · What does the municipal master plan say about this? · What does the public health profile show? · How do we compare with the neighbouring municipality? · What do we spend money on, compared with others? · What does the law say about this?
Write and quality-assure
Draft a committee report from adopted material · Quality-assure a report before the committee meets · Write a consultation response · Answer a question from an elected member · What is missing from this case file? · Are the requirements in the regulations covered?
Connect and show effect
Which sectors does this measure touch? · Who else is working on the same thing? · Which plans point the other way? · What would count as a result? · Ground a measure in adopted material for an application · Which regulations apply here?
Division of responsibility
What the system does, and what it does not
The judgement stays with you. Not with an external consultant. The tool leaves you better informed — it does not take the judgement over.
The system does
Retrieves and organises the municipality's own plans, strategies and public documents · Shows which document an answer rests on · Points out connections across sectors · Gives a basis that can be verified
The system does not
Does not replace professional judgement or political assessment · Does not decide what should be prioritised · Makes no decisions, and prepares no case without a case officer
The judgement stays with you
No one can be held responsible for an answer without sources. That is why every answer carries its own sources — and why the judgement is never taken away from you.
Safe to assess
Built for public scrutiny
Every answer carries its sources, so your use can be documented if there is an access request, a complaint or an audit. The rest of the answer is on the solution page.
Price
From NOK 2,900 per month
Everyone should be able to influence and change the place they live. The price is set so that it is not the reason anyone gives up. Within ordinary procurement limits, and with no need for a complex tender process. Your data is never used for training, and your information never leaves the EU/EEA. Research groups, students and non-profit organisations can be given free access for specific projects that contribute to sustainable development — send a request to post@norskbarekraftsenter.no.
Who we are
Safe, effective and affordable
Our leadership team combines long experience in sustainability and municipal governance, deep expertise in data, analysis and evaluation, and technical experience from tech start-ups. Beneath the platform lie more than ten years of research and method development — most of it built together with Norwegian municipalities, and tested there. The solution is in use in the public, private and non-profit sectors, and in research environments.
A Norwegian company
SustainBridge Solutions AS, Trondheim, Norway. Company registration number 935 557 313. Norwegian law, Norwegian supervisory authorities and Norwegian-language support.
All processing takes place within the EU/EEA
The application, the database, the files and the AI processing itself sit inside the EU/EEA — not just storage. Today in Stockholm, Ireland and Frankfurt. Subprocessors are named, with purpose and location.
No implementation project
You get access and log in. No installation, no integration, no consultancy phase and no data collection you have to do yourselves.
Not only for the municipality
The municipality does not own the place alone
The material a municipality governs by is public. That makes the tool just as useful to anyone setting out to build something in the same place — a health service business, a research group, an entrepreneur in a rural community. You work from the same material.
Get started
Book a walkthrough, or log in
Book a 30-minute walkthrough where we show the tool with your own municipality as the starting point. If you already have access, log straight in.