Polco

Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

Active

Since 2015

Middleton, WI

Open source: No (N/A)

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Polco transforms the civic process. We promote civil and constructive policy participation through online surveys and polls.

Funding details

Funded by	Date	Amount
Mercury Fund, BAT Ventures and Royal Street Ventures	2022-10-03	$14,000,000

Evidence of this project's impact

Data on 70k jurisdictions 30 million voices represented 30+ years of resident input (Source) — 2024-12

Resources

Related projects

Project(s): Balancing Act

Founder(s)

Alex Pedersen, Nick Mastronardi

Org. type: For-profit business / social enterprise / B Corp
Project type: Tool or platform
Country: United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded: 2015
Language(s): English
Employees: 80-90
Pricing: https://info.polco.us/request-quote
Features: Surveys, Verified participation, Mapping
Tech stack: BuiltWith report →
Categories: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Govtech, Ideation, Participatory democracy, Public meetings, Surveys & polling, The Tech
Added: 2021-06-22
Last modified: 2026-04-21T17:33:53.000Z

Additional details

Tech stack: PWA, Open Graph, Mouse Flow , Heap, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Google Font API, Font Awesome, Cloudflare, cdnjs, HubSpot, Google Tag Manager, lit-element, lit-html , core-js, React, Stripe, Appcues, Google Maps, ArcGIS API for JavaScript, Facebook Login, Google Sign-in, Rollbar, TinyMCE
Integrates with: Envisio
Institutions using the platform: Local Government Entities, Public Sector Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations, Educational Institutions
How AI is used: Polly, Polco's advanced AI-powered assistant, is designed to revolutionize civic engagement and government insights. Polly seamlessly integrates with the Polco platform, providing real-time, tailored data analysis and interactive tools to help government leaders make informed decisions. Leveraging the latest in AI technology, Polly delivers data and insights while accessing comprehensive community metrics and benchmark surveys. Polly enhances your ability to get things done. Polly can answer questions, provide insights, offer comparison information, and even create drafts of everyday plans and documents, all while leveraging the data in the Polco system <https://info.polco.us/platform/ai> Polly’s multi-agent framework is designed to provide users with the specialized knowledge and tools needed to excel in various aspects of governance. It offers: - Grant Writing Expert - Budgeting Expert - Strategic Planning Expert - Data and Insights Expert - Organizational Culture Expert
Content moderation policy: Unclear
Number of end users: 60,000 (questions answered)
Number of integrations: 1
Metrics of success: Data on 70k jurisdictions 30 million voices represented 30+ years of resident input
Geographic focus: United States of America 🇺🇸
Geographic focus — country: United States of America 🇺🇸
Pricing: https://info.polco.us/request-quote
Pricing — license model: Subscription based license.
Pricing — government / nonprofit discount: Yes, for non-profit organizations and governments in general.
Support included: Yes. We include support services in our license subscription.
Demo: https://polco.us/n/admin/registration
Documentation & learning: <https://blog.polco.us/polco-knowledgebase>
Support resources: <https://blog.polco.us/polco-knowledgebase>