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Research tools

Explore 73 projects in the Research tools category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

Especially helpful and innovative research tools that journalists and others can use to hold power to account.

73 projects

SovereignLab

SovereignLab is a commercial subscription intelligence-briefing service that sends AI-drafted, relevance-scored digests of public-source news across six sectors, including civic policy.

Oklahoma City, OK

PiRogue Tool Suite (PTS) Documentation

PiRogue Tool Suite documentation is an open-source documentation repository that builds the Docusaurus website explaining the PiRogue Tool Suite, a mobile forensics and network-traffic analysis toolkit.

2026

ShadowFinder

A tool to estimate the points on the Earth's surface where a shadow of a particular length could occur, for geolocation purposes.

2026

Chronolocation Calculator

Chronolocation Calculator is a free open-source-intelligence tool that verifies when and where a photo or video was taken by computing the sun's position, altitude, azimuth, and expected shadows for given coordinates, date and time, returning a citable forensic report.

2026

Canadian Rental Data Sources

An open, source-dated directory of official Canadian resources for researching a rental address before signing a lease.

PublicAlgo

This platform turns public records and freedom-of-information requests into a searchable public account of government AI use.

Institute for Worldmaking (IWM)

The Institute for Worldmaking (IWM) is a global cultural research lab and public platform developing tools for imagining and building dynamic futures for and from the Arab world.

Lebanon

aCURE

aCURE.info is a deterministic search platform that can run hundreds of integrated, weighted-context queries simultaneously.