CivichordReal-time polling that travels from voters to the halls of government.
Where traditional polling flows results downward to insiders and journalists, Civichord flips the flow — registered users answer short, geo-segmented polls on local and national issues, and the aggregated sentiment streams into legislators’ offices, municipal dashboards, and civic transparency portals.
- Always-on
- Not a snapshot
- Geo-fenced
- Zip-cluster tallies
- Auditable
- Replay later
How it works
A single vote, end-to-end.
No media intermediary, no overnight snapshot. The opinion a citizen casts at 9:14 p.m. on Tuesday is on a desk that same evening.
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A voter casts a low-friction answer
Short, geo-segmented questions land in the registered user’s feed. No 40-question survey, no spam — just a few locally relevant questions a few times per week.
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It joins an encrypted zip-cluster tally
Individual answers never leave the voter’s device. Only the aggregate for a U.S. zip cluster, with sample size and timestamp, surfaces to the upstream rail.
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It reaches the office that acts on it
The aggregate streams into a congressional or municipal dashboard, a state legislative tracker, or a civic transparency portal — with an audit trail researchers can replay.
Weigh in on local and national issues
Between elections, in 90-second slices, on the things your council, mayor, and representatives actually vote on.
Your individual vote is never sold or shared
We verify a unique U.S. zip code at registration, then forget it — no ad profiling, no cross-site tracking, no data broker export.
See the effects in your district
Look up any U.S. zip cluster and watch sentiment move on the issues your office will vote on next — not a national mood ring.
A defensible, geo-fenced opinion feed
Replace the deliverable of a single phone survey with a continuous stream — segmented by district, sample size, and recency, ready for a hearing room.
Auditable by constituents and press
Every reported aggregate is paired with the zip-cluster size and a timestamped audit chain, so the office can defend the numbers in plain language.
Plugs into the tools you already use
Integration targets include congressional office inboxes, state legislative trackers in the spirit of UCLA’s Crowdlaw project, and open civic APIs from the U.S. Vote Foundation.
Why now
The opposite of “a poll came out today.”
Recent PBS and Pew reporting found more than 8 in 10 Americans are concerned about AI-generated misinformation. Part of that is fabricated polls — a newsroom runs a story on a synthetic snapshot and a representative’s office spends a week answering for a public mood that was never measured.
Civichord is the always-on, U.S.-domestic bridge between citizens and the policymakers they hired — with a timestamped public record anyone can replay.
Where Gallup, Morning Consult, and YouGov publish snapshots for insiders, and Decidim- or vTaiwan-style tools anchor participatory processes abroad, Civichord sits in the missing U.S. lane: continuous, geo-fenced, and auditable.
Frequently asked
Straight answers, before you sign up.
We publish these so a state legislator’s comms director doesn’t have to ask the same twelve questions twice.
Anything else? civichord@polsia.app.
Bring your district into the loop.
We onboard civic-tech partners, municipality programs, and a small cohort of representatives per cycle. Tell us where you work; we’ll tell you whether the timing is right.
Create your accountA pseudonym, then $5/month. Account active in under two minutes.