CIVIC INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT CIVIC SURVEILLANCE
UNDERSTAND THE PUBLIC ISSUE—WITHOUT BUYING THE PUBLIC.
Commission a Civic Pulse from eligible participants in a defined jurisdiction.
Receive source-backed, privacy-preserving aggregate insight with disclosed sponsorship, transparent methodology and participant compensation built into the engagement.
Who Civic Pulse is for
Civic Pulse is designed for:
- public-policy researchers;
- universities;
- newsrooms;
- municipal and regional bodies;
- provincial and state agencies;
- foundations;
- professional associations;
- public-interest organizations;
- responsible market-research firms;
- civic technology partners.
Candidate campaigns, political parties and voter-targeting operations are excluded from the founding program.
Use cases
See more than a one-time answer.
Policy comprehension
Determine whether participants understand what is being proposed and where communication is failing.
Local issue response
Measure non-binding participant reaction to a real decision in a defined locality.
Evidence testing
Discover which facts change minds and which claims participants do not trust.
Trade-off analysis
Identify the conditions under which support, opposition or uncertainty changes.
Longitudinal tracking
Observe how the same issue evolves as proposals, evidence and institutional actions change.
Consultation design
Test language and identify missing questions before a larger engagement process.
Civic trust research
Examine trust, institutional understanding and perceived legitimacy without providing buyers with individual political dossiers.
Founding Civic Pulse package
A bounded first engagement
Starting at C$7,500
The founding package is designed around:
- one defined public issue;
- one selected jurisdiction;
- up to 100 eligible participants;
- one source-backed neutral issue brief;
- participant recruitment and qualification;
- mission-specific consent;
- participant Civic Dividend pool;
- privacy-preserving aggregate findings;
- methodology and limitations report;
- findings presentation;
- optional public Mirror State issue page.
Custom recruitment, multi-jurisdiction work, probability sampling, longitudinal tracking and independent methodological review are quoted separately.
Commissioning process
Define
Submit the question, target jurisdiction, intended use and decision context.
Review
CivicLedger.ai assesses neutrality, participant risk, privacy implications and whether the mission fits sponsor standards.
Disclose
Approved participants see the sponsor, purpose, permissions, retention and reward before joining.
Conduct
Participants receive the evidence brief and authorize their own response.
Aggregate
CivicLedger.ai applies the approved thresholds and produces the commissioned output.
Report
The sponsor receives the agreed deliverables. Any public Mirror State report is clearly labelled and methodologically disclosed.
Sponsor standards
Payment does not purchase control of the answer.
CivicLedger.ai may reject a commission involving:
- concealed sponsorship;
- candidate or party persuasion;
- voter suppression;
- deceptive framing;
- unlawful discrimination;
- individual political targeting;
- employee, tenant, borrower or insurance screening;
- demands for raw participant data;
- re-identification attempts;
- retaliation against participants;
- a predetermined conclusion presented as research.