Sway
LiveVote on the same bills as your representatives. Sway shows you, vote by vote, whether they represent you. It covers Baltimore City, Maryland and Congress.
Civic software for everyday people.
We're a nonprofit. We build apps that help people follow their government and their streets, and we write software for other nonprofits.
Why we exist
Technology can and should make civic life easier to join. So we build the tools ourselves, and we help other nonprofits build theirs.
Our projects
Sway is live and Bike Dividend is in beta. The others are still in progress.
Bike Dividend
BetaCompare a trip by bike, e-bike or scooter with the same trip by car: cost, carbon, calories and time. Log your rides and watch the savings add up.
Open Legislator
In developmentA public record of what a legislative body does: bills, meetings, agendas, votes, testimony and money. Written so residents can read it.
Pothole recognition
ResearchA command-line tool that finds potholes in bike and dashcam video. It saves a frame and a timestamp for each one, so a person can review them. So far it has been tested on one bike ride.
Software for nonprofits
If your nonprofit needs software, we're here to help.
How we work
Private
We build for maximum user privacy.
Transparent
You can see how our software works. Sway's code is public on GitHub.
Work with us
Need software for your nonprofit, or want to help with ours? Tell us about it.