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Bloomz for Cities›For Communications & PIOs
For Communications & PIOs

Communications: one message, every channel, every language.

Compose once. Send by app, email, SMS and voice call, to the neighborhoods that need it, in the language each resident reads.

City of Fort MeadeSmart Alerts · Compose
New alert
UrgentStaff approve before it sends
Title
Boil water notice: Northeast and Southeast
Message
Boil water for 1 minute before drinking or cooking until further notice. We will post updates here as soon as the lines are cleared.
BLISS AI drafted this from your notes and translates it for each resident. Review it, edit it, then send. Nothing sends itself.

Write the notice, or let BLISS AI draft it. Staff review before anything sends.

Step 1 of 5: Compose
Illustrative screens with demo data
The challenge

You write it once and then publish it five times.

A boil-water notice has to reach the website, the app, the newsletter, social and a phone tree, in a hurry and usually in English only. Each tool keeps its own audience list, and nothing tells you who actually saw the message.

The alert tool, the newsletter and the website each keep their own contact list, so the audience for any message is a guess.

Translation is a separate job after the fact, so residents who don't read English hear the news last.

If your one alert vendor has an outage during a storm, you have no second way to reach anyone.

After a send you can't say who was reached on which channel, only that the message went out.

A day in the role

A notice day, from first draft to recap.

6:00
Boil-water notice goes out

Drafted, translated and approved on one screen, then sent to the affected neighborhoods on four channels.

8:00
Replies arrive

A resident writes back in Spanish. Staff read it in English and answer in the resident's language.

10:30
Newsletter draft

BLISS AI drafts the newsletter. You edit and approve.

1:00
Update site and app together

One change in the control panel updates the city website and the app.

5:00
Check delivery

Per-channel delivery shows who was reached and who still needs a second contact.

The Bloomz difference

Reach is a report, not a guess.

Every send reports delivery per channel, and replies from residents arrive translated for staff. A resident using the app without an account still receives neighborhood alerts, so an urgent notice is not under-delivered.

250+
languages, in both directions: residents read and reply in their own
Questions we hear

What communications teams ask first.

Do alerts cost per message?

No. Bloomz for Cities has no per-resident or per-message fees. Unlimited notifications are part of the platform subscription.

Can residents reply to an alert?

Yes. Replies route to staff translated into English, so you can answer without a separate reporting tool.

Who approves AI drafts?

Your staff. BLISS AI drafts and translates, and a person reviews and sends. Nothing sends itself.

Also built for the people you work with.

City hall runs on handoffs. See how Bloomz works for the roles on the other side of yours.

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Four channels, neighborhood targeting, weather warnings
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AI answers from the city's own pages, with citations
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