Indiana DOT Saves 360 Hours With Google AI & Gemini

Public sector agencies are under increasing pressure to operate with greater speed and agility, yet are often hampered by decades of legacy data. Critical information, essential for meeting tight deadlines and fulfilling mandates, frequently lies buried within vast collections of unstructured documents. This challenge of transforming institutional knowledge into actionable insight is a common hurdle on the path to modernization.

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) recently faced this exact scenario. To comply with Governor Mike Braun’s Executive Order 25-13, all state agencies were given 30 days to complete a government efficiency report, mapping all statutory responsibilities to their core purpose. For INDOT, the critical information needed to complete this report was buried in a mix of editable and static documents – decades of policies, procedures, and manuals scattered across internal sites. A manual review was projected to take hundreds of hours, making the deadline nearly impossible. This tight deadline ...