Work
Platforms, research instruments, and programs — most of them built to measure something about civic life that nobody was measuring.
CivicLens
Software that watches what the platforms won't show you.
Civic AI Audit
Grading what chatbots tell Americans about their own government.
CandiData
Every elected official in America, mapped to the accounts they actually post from.
American Conversation Project
Infrastructure for Americans to talk to each other on purpose.
Civic Health Index
A national instrument panel for how civic life is actually doing.
Civic Language Explorer & Workbench
The words we use for democracy don't land the way we think they do.
Census Quality Reinforcement
When the government dissolved its census science advisors, this reconstituted them.
International civic data infrastructure
Political actor databases for countries that don't have them.
Contrast Agent
Looking for the machinery behind inauthentic activity.
NewsTracker
The newsroom tool that turned a story into a discipline.