How can a city, county or public works team use AI to sort residents’ service requests, catch duplicates and get urgent hazards seen sooner?

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title: "How to route resident service requests with AI"
description: "AI reads each request from the web form, app, email or a phone note, extracts the request type, location, description and photos, and checks the location against open requests to flag likely duplicates. It routes each request to the right crew or department and flags urgent hazards for a dispatcher to review straight away. Dispatchers review anything urgent or unclear, crews and supervisors decide priority and scheduling, and residents get an acknowledgement and status updates, with their contact details used only for their own request."
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# How can a city, county or public works team use AI to sort residents’ service requests, catch duplicates and get urgent hazards seen sooner?

AI reads each request from the web form, app, email or a phone note, extracts the request type, location, description and photos, and checks the location against open requests to flag likely duplicates. It routes each request to the right crew or department and flags urgent hazards for a dispatcher to review straight away. Dispatchers review anything urgent or unclear, crews and supervisors decide priority and scheduling, and residents get an acknowledgement and status updates, with their contact details used only for their own request.

## What this means in practice

- Extract request type, location, description and photos from every channel.
- Check the location against open requests to flag duplicates.
- Route each request to the right crew or department.
- Flag urgent hazards for immediate dispatcher review.
- Send residents an acknowledgement and status updates.

## How Lid Vizion approaches it

We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.

## See it as a workflow

- [Public service request routing](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/public-service-request-routing/): Classify incoming service requests from residents, such as potholes, streetlights, missed collections or blocked drains, add the location and a short summary, flag duplicates and route each one to the right crew or department.

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