POPVOX

What POPVOX does

Popvox, Inc. is a private civic technology company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, that builds legislative intelligence products connecting bills, members, committees, hearings, witnesses, organizations, documents, and legislative histories into a public-facing, citation-backed experience. Its core technology ingests official government data sources (Congress.gov, GovInfo, Senate.gov, House.gov, the Office of the Clerk, the House Committee Repository, and the CongressLink API) and parses PDFs and XML into structured, searchable records exposed through approximately 15 specialized "Explorers" on POPVOX.com. The company operates two entities: POPVOX Inc., the for-profit product company behind POPVOX.com, LegiDash, and the LocAlmanac city-scoped civic information platform; and POPVOX Foundation, a separate nonprofit supporting civic infrastructure research. The team is intentionally small at 6-10 employees, led by co-founders Marci Harris (CEO, former House Ways and Means staffer) and Rachna Choudhry, with Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media) on the board.

POPVOX's business model combines free public tools on POPVOX.com with a demo-driven enterprise sales motion targeting legislative institutions, foundations, and state/local government customers for LegiDash and add-on modules like Public Agenda Intelligence and Civic Records Search. Revenue is structured as annual subscriptions with custom enterprise pricing (no public tiers disclosed). The company has not raised disclosed venture funding since 2015, when it closed approximately $2.02M, and operates without disclosed ARR, pricing benchmarks, or paying-customer logos. Distribution combines direct enterprise sales (institutional, bottom-of-funnel) with content-led top-of-funnel marketing through its Substack, public Explorers, and earned media coverage in Tech Policy Press, Brookings, and The Fulcrum.

The 2025-2026 period represents a strategic pivot to an "AI era" rebuild: AI and NLP are applied to plain-language summaries, procedural Q&A (House Rules Explorer), parsing of Senate disbursement PDFs, and automated generation of public briefs from meeting agendas. Expansion signals include the LocAlmanac sub-brand pushing into municipal records, the return of Anne Meeker in May 2026 to lead state-and-local government AI tools, and the June 2026 House AI Software Expenditures report demonstrating analytical productization of parsed congressional data.

Name

POPVOX

Legal name

Popvox, Inc.

Website

https://popvox.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Popvox, Inc. is a private civic technology company that builds legislative intelligence platforms parsing official Congressional and municipal data into structured, citation-backed explorers for lawmakers, staff, advocacy organizations, and the public.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic Technology / Legislative Intelligence Software

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Government Digital Service & eGovernment (Service Delivery, IDs, Portals) (BPAIAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Q&A and Knowledge Discovery Platforms (BPAMAAAF), Topic/Interest-Based Content Discovery Apps (MPACAKAB)

Keywords

• Legislative intelligence
• Civic technology
• Government data platform
• Congressional analytics
• Legislative tracking

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Institutional/Government Sales: POPVOX sells tools and platforms to government institutions, legislative bodies, and related organizations. The 'Request a demo' and 'Partnerships' sections target institutions and foundations for civic technology and legislative modernization.
2. Public Platform Services: POPVOX.com provides public-facing legislative intelligence. The platform mentions both free public tools and paid services, with paid aspects subject to pricing and payment terms.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

POPVOX builds and maintains public-facing legislative intelligence software that aggregates official U.S. federal legislative records (bills, members, committees, hearings, witnesses, expenditures, lobbying disclosures, executive reports) into searchable explorers on POPVOX.com. The company offers subscription-based data-powered workflow tools (LegiDash) to government institutions, congressional offices, and foundations through a demo-driven sales motion, and extends the same civic-intelligence model to state and local government via LocAlmanac.

Product overview

POPVOX is a civic technology company offering a suite of legislative intelligence products. The core offering is POPVOX.com, a public-facing platform that connects bills, members, committees, hearings, witnesses, organizations, documents, and legislative histories. The platform is built around multiple specialized explorers (Lawmaker Explorer, Committee Explorer, Legislation Explorer, Witness Explorer, Expenditure Explorers for House and Senate, Rules Explorer, Journal Explorer, Lobbyist Explorer, and Executive Reports Explorer) that enable discovery and analysis of congressional data. Additional products include LegiDash for data-powered legislative workflows, the city-scoped civic information platform LocAlmanac, and demo concepts for Public Agenda Intelligence and Civic Records Search. POPVOX Foundation operates as a separate nonprofit entity supporting broader civic infrastructure work.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LocAlmanac: A city-scoped civic information platform that turns local public information into structured, searchable records. It ingests articles, calendars, meetings, event feeds, and other public sources; preserves provenance; and supports citation-backed search and Q&A.
• LegiDash

Products and services

• POPVOX.com Primary public-facing legislative intelligence platform connecting bills, members, committees, hearings, witnesses, organizations, documents, and legislative histories into a searchable public experience for lawmakers, staff, organizations, institutions, and the public.
• LegiDash Data-powered workflow tool for legislative intelligence that enables users to track and analyze legislative activity, expenditures, and public records; sold via demo-driven enterprise sales to government institutions and foundations.
• Lawmaker Explorer Searchable explorer of House and Senate members with filtering by chamber, party, state, committee, and keyword, linking to person profiles, districts, offices, legislation, and hearings.
• Congressional Staff Explorer Searchable database of House and Senate staff names, offices, titles, and inferred public role history drawn from disbursement records.
• Registered Lobbyist Explorer Searchable explorer of public LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act) records by lobbyist, client, registrant, filing period, and covered government position.
• Executive Reports Explorer Tracks congressionally mandated executive branch reports by agency, committee routing, legal authority, due date, and receipt status from GovInfo CMR data.
• Legislation Explorer Live House bill explorer that scans legislative records, tracks signals, and connects text, actions, sponsors, committees, hearings, witnesses, and summaries using CongressLink API data.
• Committee Explorer Browsable House committee corpus including subcommittees, memberships, jurisdictions, hearing calendars, markup activity, witnesses, and source documents from the House Committee Repository.
• Witness Explorer Searchable database of House hearing witnesses, organizations, testimony documents, committees, and bios from the 119th Congress committee corpus, enriched with LDA lobbyist matches.
• House Expenditure Explorer Searchable House vendor-level rollups from official Statement of Disbursements detail-grid CSVs, enabling inspection of offices served, expense mixes, quarterly patterns, and large transactions.
• House Rules Explorer Plain-language assistant for House procedure questions grounded in H. Res. 5, the House Rules and Manual, and Rules Committee materials; answers questions about special rules, germaneness, amendments, and voting.
• House Journal Explorer Structured ledger of House floor activity including votes, motions, bills, communications, procedural steps, and adjournments with plain-language explanations, sourced from Office of the Clerk XML.
• Senate Committee Explorer Browsable Senate committee structure with rosters, subcommittees, chairs, ranking members, upcoming meetings, Congress.gov history, and published GovInfo hearing records from Senate.gov XML.
• Senate Witness Explorer Searchable Senate witnesses extracted from published GovInfo hearing records, with official PDF/HTML links and profile research links.
• Senate Expenditure Explorer Searchable Senate vendors, offices, descriptions, spending categories, and source pages parsed from Secretary of the Senate PDF reports.
• LocAlmanac City-scoped civic information platform that turns local public information (articles, calendars, meetings, event feeds) into structured, searchable records with citation-backed search and Q&A for residents, reporters, advocates, and local officials.
• POPVOX Foundation Nonprofit organization supporting civic infrastructure, research, and capacity-building work, separate from POPVOX Inc.

Quantifiable outcome

• House AI software expenditure analysis showing 3.5x growth in Q1 2026 vs Q1 2025
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• House of Representatives (Official Data Source)coreTechnology or IntegrationPOPVOX integrates official House Statement of Disbursements data, House Journal/Ledger CTO share package, and Office of the Clerk daily floor proceedings XML. These official sources enable POPVOX's expenditure and legislative tracking tools.
• Senate (Official Data Source)coreTechnology or IntegrationPOPVOX parses public Report of the Secretary of the Senate PDF reports for Senate expenditure data. These are digitally signed GPO PDFs linked from the Senate's official report page.
• GovInfo (Official Data Source)coreTechnology or IntegrationPOPVOX extracts Senate hearing witness data from published GovInfo hearing records with official PDF/HTML links. The Reports Dashboard uses GovInfo CMR (Congressional Mandated Reports) metadata.
• Congress.gov (Official Data Source)coreTechnology or IntegrationPOPVOX uses Congress.gov for meeting records, bill text, and historical data. Historical meetings come from Congress.gov and bill pages link to official Congress.gov documents.
• House Committee Repository (Official Data Source)coreTechnology or IntegrationPOPVOX's House committee corpus and Witness Explorer are built by scraping the House Committee Repository (docs.house.gov), enriching witness information and matching with registered lobbyist data.
• CongressLink API (Official Data Source)coreTechnology or IntegrationPOPVOX's Legislation Explorer uses the CongressLink API for document lists (hierarchical endpoint) and full-text keyword searches, connecting bills to official legislative records.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• FiscalNote: Public policy intelligence platform offering legislative tracking, regulatory monitoring and government affairs workflow tools to Congress, staffers and advocacy organizations — directly comparable customer base and offerings to POPVOX, but at much larger scale.
• Quorum (formerly Quorum Analytics): Government affairs and legislative tracking SaaS platform used by Fortune 500s and advocacy shops to monitor Congress and state legislatures; overlaps with POPVOX's workflow tools (LegiDash) and explorers.
• Bloomberg Government: Subscription legislative and regulatory intelligence service for government affairs professionals in D.C., overlapping with POPVOX's enterprise sales motion targeting institutions and foundations.
• Politico Pro: Subscription policy intelligence product covering Congress, federal agencies and statehouses, marketed to policy professionals — overlapping customer base and policy tracking use case with POPVOX.
• LexisNexis State Net: Legislative and regulatory tracking service for federal and state governments, comparable to POPVOX's broad legislative intelligence positioning but tied into LexisNexis's larger legal-information distribution.

Direct peers

• GovTrack: Independent civic-tech tracker of U.S. Congress activity including bills, members, committees and voting records, with public-facing search similar to POPVOX's explorers. Differs in being non-commercial and narrower in scope.
• LegiScan: Legislative tracking service that aggregates bill text, votes and sponsor data across all 50 states plus Congress; comparable bill-level search and tracking functionality to POPVOX's Legislation Explorer.
• OpenStates: Nonprofit civic-tech project aggregating state legislature data (bills, legislators, votes) with a public API and tracker; closely aligned with POPVOX's state/local civic-intelligence ambitions via LocAlmanac.

Emerging players

• Plural Policy: State legislature tracking and analysis tool for government affairs teams, with public-facing search for bills and hearings; overlaps with POPVOX's state-level coverage and explorers.
• Plurality / CaseCompass: Civic-tech project (Plurality Network) building AI-enabled casework tools for Congressional offices stemming from the 2024 Select Committee on Modernization recommendations — directly linked to POPVOX's Anne Meeker work and the Casework Navigator program.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/popvox
• Facebookfacebook.com/POPVOXnation
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/popvox

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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