Mission
What we stand for
Civio exists to make democratic participation accessible to every American — regardless of education, income, or political affiliation. The following commitments define who we are and how we operate. They are not marketing language. They are engineering constraints.
Strictly factual, always
Every bill summary contains only facts from the bill text. We never add opinion, emotional framing, or persuasive language. We never characterize legislation as 'good' or 'bad'. If it's not in the bill, it's not in our summary.
Official government sources only
100% of Civio's legislative data comes from official government databases: Congress.gov, state legislature APIs, and official municipal data portals. We do not use news media, editorial content, or secondary sources as inputs. There is no editorial layer between government data and your summary.
No Political Ads – Ever. No to selling your Personal Information.
These are permanent, unconditional commitments — not policies that can be changed by a future board or acquisition. Civio's business model is user subscriptions and B2B data licensing. Our revenue is structurally independent of political actors, advertisers, and data brokers. We cannot sell what we do not collect, and we do not collect political beliefs.
Privacy by design
Your home address is encrypted at rest using AES-256 and used only to resolve your jurisdictions. The resolved information (city, state, congressional district) is stored in plaintext — it is the same low-sensitivity information on your voter registration. We never collect GPS location, browsing history, or cross-app data. Individual civic votes are never exposed publicly — only aggregate percentages.
Accessible to everyone
The full civic feed is free, permanently. We believe that access to information about what your government is doing is a civic right, not a premium feature. Premium tiers exist for users who want more — more jurisdictions, faster alerts, SMS notifications — not to gatekeep the core product.
Accountability to users
If a Civio summary is factually incorrect, we want to know. Users can flag any summary. Flagged summaries are reviewed by a human and corrected within 24 hours. All corrections are noted publicly on the bill card. We treat factual accuracy as a product defect, not an acceptable error rate.
“An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.”
— Thomas Jefferson