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Browser agentfor committees

A Browser AI Agent Watching UK Parliamentary Committees Live

The result

2 min

from spoken word to the team being alerted, against 2–3 days for Hansard

XY Space built the backend behind Ziani.ai: a browser agent that watches UK committee sittings live and alerts teams minutes after a passage is spoken.

Live committee monitoringFlowchart: a browser agent watches a UK parliamentary committee stream as it airs, transcribing and summarising in real time. When a passage matches a client's watch list the team is alerted by email, SMS or CRM within minutes; when it does not, the passage is logged and the agent keeps watching. The same sitting reaches the official Hansard record two to three days later, and for some committees never at all.MATCHNO MATCHSESSION CONTINUESSAME SESSIONLIVECommittee streamruns 3–5 hoursAGENTBrowser agentwatches it liveSPEAKERTIMESTAMPVERBATIM QUOTEROLLING SUMMARYTHEME MATCHHITOn a client'swatch list?ALERTTeam notifiedemail · SMS · CRMMinutes, not dayswhile the sitting runsRECORDLogged, not sentsearchable, attributed,and timestampedHANSARDThe official recordpublished 2–3 days later,some committees: neverLEGENDAgent stepDecisionThe path it replacesStill watching
How it runs

The agent is watching the sitting, not waiting for the transcript — so the team hears it in minutes rather than days.

Measured
2 min
from a passage being spoken to the client team being alerted — Hansard takes two to three days
all
committee sittings watched, including the proceedings that never reach the official record
95%+
transcription accuracy on parliamentary proceedings, with speaker and timestamp attribution
What changed

Same sitting. One team knows during it, the other reads about it on Thursday.

Before · the official record

2–3 days

Hansard publishes after the sitting, and for some committee proceedings it never publishes at all.

Time to know · 1 cell = 1 hour

Sessions covered in a sitting week · 9 of 48

After · the agent

~2 min

The alert lands while the session is still sitting, in time to brief a client before it rises.

Time to know · 1 cell = 1 hour

Sessions covered in a sitting week · 48 of 48

01

The Challenge

Dozens of committees sit at once, each for three to five hours, and the official transcript lands days later — when it lands at all.

No public affairs team can watch all of it. Traditional monitoring offered next-day summaries at best, by which point the window to respond had usually closed. Hansard does not solve it either: it publishes after the sitting, and a good deal of committee proceeding never reaches the official record.

A browser agent sits on the stream while the session is still running, so the team hears about a passage minutes after it is spoken rather than days.

02

The Solution

XY Space built the backend behind Ziani.ai, a parliamentary intelligence platform for UK public affairs teams. The agent watches official committee streams as they air, transcribes the proceedings, and keeps a rolling summary as the sitting progresses. Every passage carries the speaker, the timestamp and the verbatim quote, so anything it surfaces can be cited straight into a briefing.

03

When Something Lands

The value is not the transcript. It is the alert.

  • Each client's watch list — sectors, bills, companies, policy areas — is tuned by their account manager and takes effect immediately.
  • Context is weighed, not just keywords: whether a topic is being criticised, endorsed, referred onward, or dismissed.
  • A match dispatches within minutes by email, SMS, or straight into the client's CRM.
  • Everything else is logged, attributed and searchable, even when nobody is alerted.
04

Ahead of Hansard

The official record is not a competitor. It is a deadline the agent beats by days.

Because the agent works from the stream itself, coverage does not depend on what eventually gets published. A one-off evidence session with a regulator is captured as completely as a headline hearing, including the proceedings that never appear in Hansard at all.

05

Results

  • Alerts land within minutes of a passage being spoken, while the session is still sitting
  • Coverage extends to committee proceedings that never reach the official record
  • 95%+ transcription accuracy on parliamentary proceedings, with speaker and timestamp attribution
  • Analysts moved off surveillance and onto interpretation and client response
06

Technology

  • Browser agent watching official committee streams as they air
  • Speech-to-text tuned on Hansard and parliamentary procedural language
  • Rolling summarisation with speaker, timestamp and verbatim attribution
  • Client watch lists editable by account managers without engineering involvement
  • Alert dispatch by email, SMS, or direct CRM integration
Calculate your ROI

Your Browser agent for committees projection.

Hours reclaimed per week
41
Projected annual savings
$243,000

Projection uses the same reduction coefficient measured in the case study above, applied to your inputs across 50 working weeks per year. Results are indicative; real scope is defined during discovery.

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