The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is the State's designated science and technology policy advisory organization. A nonpartisan nonprofit organization founded via the State Legislature in the ‘80s, they advise California policymakers across more than a dozen topics, including AI and quantum research.

CCST’s influence on California policy is powered by their network. Scientists and engineers at CCST’s partner institutions and cross-sectoral collaborators throughout the state advance the evidence base of critical and timely issues, and CCST delivers that expertise into government through peer-reviewed studies, legislative science academies, expert briefings and workshops, Science & Technology Policy Fellows, and most recently, senior-level Science Advisors to Governor’s Cabinet Secretaries. 

The organization’s 12 partner institutions include Stanford, Caltech, USC, Berkeley Lab, NASA JPL, NASA Ames, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories, SLAC, the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges. CCST’s 200+ post-PhD fellows and alumni are embedded in government and research fields globally. 

CCST's job is to ensure the work of their partners and alumni reach the right decision-makers and shape state policy, but that's only possible if they know what their network is doing, saying, and publishing in real time.

Before Clipbook, that wasn’t possible. Every CCST team member monitored media independently, relying on a mix of Search Engine Alerts, newsletters, and one-off searches across multiple platforms. There was no shared view of the media landscape, making it difficult to act on information as one coordinated unit. 

CCST needed an AI-native system to track, understand, and activate everything happening across the California research and policy ecosystem.