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Free for Western Slope governments and civic entities

Reach your residents without asking them to sign up first

Residents are already here for the weather, local news, events, and high school sports. When you publish a notice or issue an evacuation order, it lands where they already are. There is no list to build and no app for anyone to install.

Publishing is free forever. Verified entities only.

theslope.co/emergency
Evacuation order: Spring CreekEvacuate
Highway 50 closed at Blue MesaRoad
Boil water advisory liftedUpdate

City of Montrose

Official city account

Public WorksCity ClerkPoliceParks and Rec

Every notification system has the same problem

They need residents to enroll, or to download an app that does one thing everybody hopes never happens. So the list ends up covering a fraction of households, and the wrong fraction: it skews older, more settled, and already engaged, and misses renters, young families, and anyone who never saw the sign-up card.

Nobody installs us for notifications. They install us for the forecast and the weekend, and the alert rides along. Ask us how many residents of your county we already reach. We will tell you before you sign anything, and if the number is not good enough yet we will say so.

Free forever

The tools your public information work actually needs

Built for cities, counties, towns, fire districts, libraries, utilities, parks and recreation districts, and law enforcement agencies. Use what fits and skip the rest.

Publish

One place residents already check

Everything you have to put somewhere findable, on a site people visit for other reasons. It costs your office nothing to publish and costs residents nothing to read.

  • Official newsAnnouncements and updates under your entity byline, on a site locals already read.
  • Notices boardLegal notices, ordinances, agendas, minutes, job postings, RFPs, and bids, with documents attached. Every one gets a public link you can share anywhere.
  • Meetings and eventsCouncil and board meetings, hearings, and community events on the local calendar.
  • Preparedness and resourcesGuides, shelters, cooling centers, and distribution points residents can find before they need them.
theslope.co/notices
Ordinance 2026-14, second readingLegal notice
Council agenda, August 12Agenda
RFP: street resurfacingBid
Now hiring: utility operatorJob posting
Respond

Alerts that find the people near them

Post a closure, an advisory, or an evacuation notice and nearby residents are notified on their own. No call list to maintain, and no alerting contract to buy.

  • Safety alertsRoad closures, advisories, and evacuation notices. Nearby residents are notified automatically, with no call list to maintain.
  • On the apps people already haveiPhone and Android. Free, and there is no list a resident has to join first.
  • Alerts that break throughThe highest urgency tier reaches a phone that is set to silent. Life safety is never gated on whether you pay us.
  • Report an issuePotholes, outages, and downed signs land in one inbox your staff can work through instead of scattered calls.
theslope.co/emergency
Evacuation order: Spring CreekEvacuate
Highway 50 closed at Blue MesaRoad
Boil water advisory liftedUpdate
Govern

Run it the way your entity is actually organised

Set up your departments and each office gets its own page, its own team, and only the tools that office needs. Public works posts road closures and gets the pothole reports. Only emergency management can issue a life safety alert.

  • Verified profileA public page that shows residents the source really is you, collecting everything you publish.
  • Team accountsRoles for staff, so nobody shares a login. Anyone signing up with your official email domain connects to your entity automatically.
  • DepartmentsEach office gets its own page, its own team, and only the tools that office needs. The clerk posts ordinances. Only public safety sends an emergency alert.
  • Activity logWho published what, who approved it, and when.

City of Montrose

Official city account

Public WorksCity ClerkPoliceParks and Rec
Reach

Where your residents already are

Your alerts land on the regional emergency hub and your county page the moment you publish, and any resident can read every word of it in Spanish.

  • Read in SpanishEvery page and every notice, at no charge, for any resident who needs it.
  • On the regional hubYour alerts appear on the emergency map and your county page the moment you publish.
For counties

Bring every town in your county with you

Emergency management is a county job, but the towns inside it publish their own ordinances, agendas, and legal notices, and a county cannot do that for them. A county agreement can cover those towns and districts at no charge to them, which solves the problem you actually have: nobody wants six towns on six different notification systems during a fire.

Each covered entity keeps its own account, its own team, and everything it publishes. You can see whether they are set up and when they last posted, and nothing else. Their news, their drafts, and their resident reports stay theirs. If an agreement ends, they drop to the free plan and keep every word of it.

  • One agreement, one procurement, one invoice
  • Every municipality and district inside the county, at no cost to them
  • A unified countywide picture during an event
  • Small towns that could never buy tools of their own get them
  • Each entity stays sovereign, and can leave at any time keeping everything

Three steps to your first post

Registration takes minutes, and verification keeps the platform official.

Step 1

Register your entity

Sign up with your official government email and tell us which entity you represent.

Step 2

We verify it

A person reviews every registration. Sign-ups from a .gov or .us address usually clear fastest.

Step 3

Invite your team and publish

Add staff with roles, then start posting news, alerts, meetings, and notices.

The full plan

Publishing is free. Running an event is the product.

Anyone can post an alert here, forever, and getting a warning to a resident is never something we charge for. What the full plan adds is the layer above a single message, and being able to prove afterwards exactly what you sent.

Priced on the population you cover, from the same rate card as every other entity, and we will show you the math. Annual invoice, net 30, purchase order accepted, and we can start on your fiscal year rather than ours.

  • One incident holding every alert and update on a single timeline
  • Other agencies working the same event alongside you, on one record
  • Delivery aimed at ground you draw, and evacuation zones kept ready
  • Wording your attorney and PIO approved months before you need it
  • Drills that exercise everything and reach nobody, with the record afterwards
  • Proof of who was notified, when, and on which channel. It exports
  • Every publication kept as it read at the time, for records requests
  • Text messages at cost, and messages composed in each resident’s language
  • Reach analytics, website widgets, and a named contact who answers

Not a city or a county?

The same platform, pointed at a different problem. Get in touch and we will talk through yours.

Electric co-ops and utilities

A planned shutoff needs staged notice to the members on a circuit, not to everyone inside a radius. Define your circuits and members join the one that serves them. Outage updates and annual meeting notices ride the same rails.

Hospital and health districts

Public health messaging that has to reach households who do not read English, board meetings and minutes for district hospitals, and the classes, screenings, and health fairs your outreach team already runs.

Tourism offices and marketing districts

Your events, your seasons, and your campaigns in front of people already planning a weekend here. Our event calendar embeds on your site so you stop maintaining two of them.

Schools and colleges have their own page. Chambers of commerce are on the business side.

Questions, answered

Common questions

Is it really free?
Yes. Official news, safety alerts, meetings and events, preparedness pages, the notices board, the resident report inbox, your verified profile, team accounts, and reading anything in Spanish are free forever, with no trial and no per seat charge. The paid plan adds running an event rather than sending a message.
Who can register?
Western Slope cities, counties, towns, fire districts, libraries, utilities, parks and recreation districts, and law enforcement agencies. Schools and colleges have their own page. Chambers of commerce belong on the business side rather than here.
Who verifies us, and how long does it take?
A person reviews every registration before the entity goes live. Sign-ups from a .gov or .us address usually clear fastest. Other official addresses may take a little longer while we confirm the entity.
Can more than one staff member use it?
Yes. Team accounts have roles, so staff publish under the entity byline without sharing a login. Anyone who signs up with your official email domain is connected to your entity automatically, ready for one click approval, and you can turn on instant auto join in settings. There is no per seat charge, ever.
Our departments do not all do the same things. Does that work?
Yes, and it is built in. Each office gets its own page, its own team, and only the tools it needs. The clerk posts ordinances, agendas, and minutes. Public works posts road closures and gets the pothole reports. Only public safety and emergency management can issue a life safety alert. You can also require a second pair of eyes before a particular office publishes.
What does the full plan add?
One incident holding every alert and update on a single timeline, other agencies working it alongside you, delivery aimed at ground you draw, evacuation zones you keep ready, wording your attorney approved in advance, drills that reach nobody, and an after action record showing exactly who was notified and on which channel. Plus the full publication record for records requests, text messaging at cost, messages composed in each resident’s language, and a named contact who answers.
How is it priced?
On the population you cover, from a rate card we apply to every entity identically. We will show you the math on the quote, and we are happy for you to compare with your neighbours. Annual invoice, net 30, purchase order accepted, and we can start on your fiscal year.
Can we show alerts on our own website?
Yes, on the full plan. You paste a short snippet onto your site and your alerts and events appear there, updating on their own as you publish.
What happens to what we publish?
It is kept exactly as it read when it went out, and a later edit is stored beside the original rather than replacing it. When somebody asks what you posted and when, the answer is a record rather than a memory, and it exports.
Does this replace our emergency plan?
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. This is one channel among several. It is not a substitute for 911, for the federal wireless alerting system, or for your own emergency plan. What we commit to is accepting and initiating your alert quickly on every configured channel, and giving you a durable record of exactly what went out.

Ask us how many of your residents we already reach

We will give you the number for your county or town before you sign anything. Registering takes minutes and the core tools are free for as long as you use them.

Free for verified government and civic entities.