Your radar on legislation.
Not theirs on you.

One moment made the gap concrete. In April, someone I follow posted about that week's dominant news story, immigration or the war, though I don't remember which anymore, and asked everyone to call their legislators. The site was well built: curated campaigns, real phone numbers, a script that got the call done. What it didn't have was a way to start with me.

So I went looking for what else was moving that might affect me, and hit a wall. I work at a national LGBTQ advocacy org, so I checked our site next. We track LGBTQ bills, which is our job. But being queer is only one part of who I am. I'm also a green card holder, with family on Medicaid in New York. Most of us are more than one thing at a time, and the bills that affect our lives don't sort into one tab on one org's website.

That's the gap. The civic tools I found are organized either around editorial campaigns or single-issue advocacy. Both assume you already know what you care about, and that what you care about is one thing. Intersectional lives don't fit that container.

So we built it. The form is the form I wanted to fill out back in April. The bill list is the list I could not find. Years as an organizer taught me how little spare time most people have to track what's moving in the legislature. We chose what we chose because the proto-user is the founder, and the founder is more than one thing at a time.

If you have values you trust and organizations you respect but no spare hours to track what's actually moving, this is for you. We built it for the version of us who has stopped opening the action emails. The information should be yours.

We tune the defaults for people whose lives are touched by more than one flavour of legislation at once: queer, immigrant, on Medicaid, disabled, undocumented, working a W-2 paycheck. Allies are equally welcome; the matching adapts to whichever identities and issues you pick.

These choices are the product. A civic tool that quietly grew a feed, a follow graph, and a notification budget would stop being your radar and start being someone else's.

So, on the record, five things we won't do:

1. 01 · No feed.

   You will not open this site to a scrolling river of legislation. You ask it one question: what's moving in my state that touches who I am. It answers. When you're done, you close the tab.

2. 02 · No follows.

   There is nothing to follow here. No accounts to subscribe to, no creators, no influencers translating policy at you. The sponsors of a bill are public record; the advocacy groups tracking it speak for themselves on their own sites.

3. 03 · No notifications you didn't ask for.

   We will never push you a tab badge, an email, or a phone buzz about a bill you didn't opt into. If alerts ever ship, they will be off until you turn them on, and the off switch will be one click away from the on switch.

4. 04 · No data sold.

   We don't sell anything about you, because we don't have anything about you to sell. Your ZIP and your identity selections live on your device. There is no file with your name on it on any server we run.

5. 05 · No account required.

   No sign-up, no email verification, no password to forget. The page works the first time you load it. If accounts ever ship, they will be optional and exist to sync your settings across devices, never to gate the bills.

None of this is a sacrifice on our end. It's the shape of a tool that works for the person reading it instead of the people measuring them.

We don't scrape statehouse PDFs in a basement. The bills, the sponsors, the votes, and the summaries you read here all come from places you can verify yourself.

OpenStates

Where we read state legislatures: bill text, sponsors, vote rolls, and committee status across all 50 states.

LegiScan

A second state-legislation source we cross-reference against OpenStates, so a bill that's missing from one usually still shows up from the other. LegiScan also covers the DC Council, which is how we surface local legislation for the ~702,000 people in the District. Council bills are the first local-government coverage we've shipped. (Source: 2023 ACS 1-year estimate, US Census Bureau.)

Congress.gov

The federal government's own bill record. Every U.S. House and Senate bill we surface is the version Congress publishes, not a paraphrase.

Anthropic (Claude)

When you ask for a plain-English summary of a bill, or a draft letter to your rep, Claude writes it (that's Anthropic's AI). We send only the bill excerpt and the prompt. Anthropic doesn't see who you are, because we don't either. And it's optional: leave AI personalization off and you get a clear template instead, nothing sent anywhere.

We name our sources because your radar should show its sources. If something we report disagrees with the legislature's own site, the legislature's site wins. The freshness badge on every result links you straight there.

Most privacy policies are long because the company has a lot to confess. Ours is short because we don't.

That's an architecture choice: your ZIP code and identity tags live in your browser's local storage, a place our servers can't read even if we wanted to.

There's no account. Nothing to log into, nothing to log out of, no password to forget. You can use this from a library computer and walk away clean.

When you search, your ZIP and tags travel to OpenStates, Congress.gov, and our LegiScan-backed bill cache so they can return matching bills. What lands in that cache is a state code plus a hashed keyword set, nothing that traces back to a person. Two people in the same state asking about the same issue look identical to it.

When you ask Claude to draft a letter, the bill excerpt, your selected tags, and any sentence you wrote about your situation are sent to Anthropic so it can write back. The draft never lands on our servers. When you close the tab, it's gone unless you saved it yourself.

We don't sell data. We don't run analytics that track you across the web. There's nothing to sell and nothing to track.

On your device

On our server

ZIP code

not stored

Identity and issue tags

not stored

Anything you typed about yourself

not stored

Letters you drafted

not stored

 

A bill cache keyed by state + keyword, no person attached

You can erase what we know in one move: clear this site's storage in your browser, and we're back to knowing nothing about you. The radar resets to zero.