Using a custom AI-powered tool, we automatically collect, organize, and analyze hundreds of impact assessment submissions—turning scattered public comments into clear, actionable insights for the community in minutes.
Revolutionizing Impact Assessment with AI
Trying to make sense of hundreds—or even thousands—of public comments on government impact assessments can be a nightmare. Manually clicking through page after page, copying text into spreadsheets, and hunting for key details is exhausting, time-consuming, and frankly, overwhelming.
That’s where Art Borups Corners and one of their latest applied AI research projects stepped in. Using AI and custom automation, their team has built a tool that completely changes the game for analyzing community engagement with the NWMO Deep Geological Repository (DGR) Impact Assessment.
In just minutes, their system pulls together nearly a thousand submissions, extracting all the essential details—from who submitted each comment to attachments, reference numbers, and phases of the project. It organizes everything into clean, structured tables ready for analysis, instantly. Missing entries? No problem—the tool just skips over them and keeps moving, faster than any human ever could.
The real magic is what comes next. With all this data neatly compiled, the team can quickly see patterns in engagement, filter by organizations or dates, and even run AI-powered sentiment and theme analyses across hundreds of submissions. What used to take weeks or months of manual work now happens in minutes, giving the community actionable insights in real time.
This isn’t just cool tech—it’s powerful community impact. By making massive amounts of public data accessible and understandable, Art Borups Corners is helping our community see the bigger picture, spot trends, and participate in civic processes more effectively. It’s proof that smart AI tools, when used thoughtfully, can turn mountains of bureaucratic data into clear, usable knowledge.
Fast. Neat. Game-changing. That’s how Art Borups Corners is helping the community work smarter, not harder—analyzing almost a thousand submissions with speed, precision, and clarity.
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