Kanean
Urban problem reporting platform

Your city.
Your address.
Our problems.
Real solutions.

Kanean connects the person who sees the problem to the people who can fix it. Report it with a photo and exact location, follow the progress and confirm when it is done.

Occurrences reported
16
Active cities
13
Already resolved
0

How it works

Three steps, designed to happen on the sidewalk, one handed and in seconds.

Report

Urban problems with exact location. Take the photo, the app captures the coordinates and you pick the category.

Track

The status and progress of your request. Every change goes into a history nobody can erase.

Take part

Help build a better city. Confirm the problem is real, support it and comment. Numbers give the report weight.

Public tracking

What happens after you report

Publishing is the easy part. The hard part is finding out what became of it — and that is where nearly every complaint platform stops. On Kanean, a post becomes an open process, with a date on every step.

  • A timeline, not a status on its own

    Reported, under review, authority notified, in progress, resolved. Every step carries the date it happened, and whatever has not happened yet stays visible — the gap ahead is the pressure.

  • The voice of whoever is handling it

    The agency writes public notes on every change, and they appear pinned to the step they belong to. Whoever reported it reads the explanation where it makes sense.

  • Resolving takes proof

    To mark something as resolved, the agency in charge has to write what was done and attach a photo of the site. Without that, "resolved" would be just a word.

  • The last word belongs to the people who live there

    When the agency calls it resolved, whoever reported it and whoever confirmed being there decide: was it really fixed? If it was not, the occurrence goes back into the queue with the objection on the record.

Public tracking
Resolution confirmed
  1. Reported by a citizen 21 ago
  2. Under review 22 ago

    The maintenance crew will inspect the site this week.

  3. Authority notified 22 ago
  4. In progress 23 ago
  5. Resolved 25 ago

    Pole replaced and wiring insulated by the crew.

The agency marked this as resolved. Was it really fixed?
Yes, it is fixed Not yet

One problem, many people

A photo on its own is one person's word. Thirty people saying it is there makes it a fact — and that is what changes the priority for whoever has to fix it.

Confirm it is happening

Whoever walks past the spot confirms what has already been reported, instead of opening another post about the same thing. One occurrence, many confirmations.

Support, outrage and danger

Reacting says more than liking: fifteen people flagging DANGER is different news from fifteen supports, and it helps separate the urgent from the important.

Talk to whoever saw it

Public comments for the discussion and direct messages for what does not belong in the square — going to city hall together, splitting the cost of a repair.

What you can report

From the pothole on the corner to the dark street light. Each category reaches whoever is responsible for fixing it.

Pothole Water leak Power outage Street lighting Sewage Garbage and debris Fallen tree Paving Traffic light Road signage Flooding Roadworks or closure Other

Amber means hazard · grey, infrastructure · green, resolved.

For city halls and utility companies

What the city is asking for, organised

Your organisation gets its own panel with the occurrences inside your coverage area, defined by city and by category. Nothing from another jurisdiction shows up there.

  • Claim an occurrence: whoever reported it is notified right away.
  • A field operator queue, built for the phone of whoever is out on the street.
  • Inspection records: "I was there and the problem is still there" becomes a public note on the timeline.
  • Closing an occurrence requires a photo of the site and a written justification — and residents validate whether it was really fixed.
  • A public profile with the scoreboard of occurrences claimed and resolved.
  • See metrics by status, by category and average resolution time.
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Life of an occurrence
  1. Reported by a citizen
  2. Under review
  3. Authority notified
  4. In progress
  5. Resolved
  6. Confirmed by whoever reported it

Every step stays in the history with author, date and note. The citizen follows it from the phone.

The app

Kanean starts on the phone, because the phone is what is in the hand of whoever walks past the problem. Reporting takes less than a minute.

  • Camera and location, automatic
  • A map of what is happening nearby
  • An alert when your occurrence moves
  • Portuguese, English and Spanish

Free, on iPhone and Android.

From problem to post
  1. 1 Open the app on the street
  2. 2 Photograph what is happening
  3. 3 The location comes from the photo itself
  4. 4 Say in one sentence what happened
  5. 5 Publish — and follow it from there
Kanean

Connecting people and places
to transform our city.

The Kanean app is in development. If you represent a city hall or a utility company, the panel is already available.

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