Built with Knowi
From governed data to a public product
Oakland Crime Watch shows what a Knowi App can do beyond an internal dashboard: turn one governed source into a branded, searchable, audience-specific experience with live analytics built in.
- Public pages
- 74indexable, shareable routes
- Beat-level views
- 57generated from one model
- Interactive dashboards
- 6built by analysts in Knowi
- Data refresh
- Dailyone governed source
What this proves
One model, many audiences
Residents get address search, reporters get citable methods, and each neighborhood gets its own view without maintaining separate data pipelines.
Analytics can become the product
The same pattern can power customer security portals, title or campaign intelligence, and location-level operating views — branded for the audience, not the BI team.
Governance survives delivery
Bindings restrict the data the app can read. Server-rendered figures and embedded exploration use governed Knowi assets rather than copied exports.
The delivery path
- SourceCity of Oakland Open Data
- ModelKnowi datasets and dashboards
- GovernanceBindings and capability tokens
- ExperienceSearchable pages plus embedded analytics
Data
Knowi queries the city's CrimeWatch feed daily and stores governed datasets. Analysts build and change the interactive views in Knowi rather than shipping application code for every chart.
Governance
The app declares exactly which datasets and dashboards it may touch in a manifest. The Knowi Apps gateway enforces that list per request and hands the service a short-lived capability token; the service never holds a Knowi API key.
Rendering
Every page is produced on the server from cached query results, so headline figures, tables and maps are plain HTML that search engines and screen readers can read. Charts are inline SVG. Dashboards are embedded through the gateway's embed route.
Hosting
Knowi builds the app from its Git repository into an immutable artifact and runs it behind a gateway with its own domain and certificate. Publishing a new version is one click; rolling back is another.
Bring us one operational workflow
Give Knowi a governed dataset and a real audience. We can turn it into a branded proof of concept with citable summaries, role-specific pages, interactive analysis, and managed delivery.