Check Your Budget Book’s Award Readiness
Introducing Budget Book Evaluator (beta), powered by ClearGov AI.
Upload your budget book to see how it stacks up to GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award criteria. Find out where you stand and receive detailed feedback on how to strengthen your submission before you apply for the award.
How to Get Your Free Readiness Scorecard
Upload your budget book
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Our tool evaluates your submission using ClearGov AI
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You put significant time and effort into your budget book. Ensure your budget book is award-ready before submitting your only application and paying GFOA submission fees.
Whether you’ve earned the award in the past or are applying for the first time, ClearGov’s Budget Book Evaluator (beta) helps you prepare. Powered by ClearGov AI, our evaluator assesses your document against the GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award criteria and provides you with an easy-to-read scorecard so you know where you stand and where to improve before submitting. In this scorecard, you’ll get:
- An overall readiness score on the likelihood of meeting GFOA’s award criteria
- Projected scores for each award criterion, along with reasons behind the score
- Recommendations for how to strengthen your budget book before submitting for official review

Disclaimer
ClearGov’s Budget Book Evaluator is intended solely to provide a preliminary assessment of a budget book’s content based on the criteria outlined in the Government Finance Officers Association’s (GFOA) Distinguished Budget Presentation Award Program. This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the GFOA. Use of the Budget Book Evaluator does not constitute an official submission to the GFOA, nor does it imply or guarantee eligibility for or receipt of any award. Evaluations are generated by artificial intelligence and may differ from the judgments of human reviewers.
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