State

What State does

State, operated by Collective Thinking Ltd (a private limited company registered in England and Wales), is a civic engagement platform that enables UK constituents to submit political concerns, create and react to motions, and route aggregated feedback to verified elected representatives. The platform is structured around three core primitives: Motions (proposals for action addressed to the representative empowered to act), Reasons (textual explanations submitted in support or opposition), and Statements (individual contributions processed through the Oracle). Constituents are verified by UK postcode before their contributions are routed, ensuring routing accuracy and preventing non-constituent participation.

The product surface includes "The Oracle," an AI-powered conversational guide that maps the UK political structure (constituencies, wards, MPs, councillors, mayors) and routes user inputs to appropriate actions; "Your Political Power," a personalized representative dashboard; "Your Political Plumbing," an interactive constituency map; and "Themes," a topic-based browsing feature. Infrastructure is hosted on AWS in the London region, and Oracle conversations are processed by Anthropic and/or OpenAI under contracts prohibiting use for model training. The platform operates under UK GDPR with documented lawful bases and standard contractual clauses for US-based AI processing.

The business model is not publicly disclosed: the platform appears free for constituents and representatives, no pricing is published, and no revenue figures are available. The company has 11–50 employees, no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, and a UK-domiciled private structure. A US market entry (state.com/us) is live, signaling geographic expansion intent, and a partnerships inquiry channel exists, though no formalized B2B tier is documented in the source materials.

Name

State

Legal name

Collective Thinking Ltd

Website

https://state.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

State is a UK civic engagement platform that lets verified constituents submit political motions, react to proposals, and route concerns to elected representatives through an AI-powered guide called the Oracle.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic Engagement Software

akta.pro primary industry

State Legislature/Regional Assembly Administration (BPAIABAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Affairs, Government Relations & Lobbying (BPAFADAB)

Keywords

• Civic engagement platform
• Constituent feedback software
• Political participation tools
• AI civic assistant
• Democratic engagement software

Headquarters

HQ city

City Of London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform usage: The platform appears to be free for constituents to use. Revenue model is not explicitly disclosed in the source materials.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

State is a cloud-hosted civic engagement platform where UK (and US) constituents submit concerns, create or react to motions, and have their aggregated feedback routed to verified elected representatives via postcode-verified accounts. Its central feature, the Oracle, is an AI-powered conversational guide that maps the political structure, classifies user inputs, and directs constituents to existing motions, representatives, or new actions.

Product overview

State is a unified civic engagement platform for UK constituents to make their concerns visible to elected representatives. The core platform comprises the Oracle (an AI-powered conversational guide that maps the UK's political structure and routes constituent input to appropriate actions) and a suite of contribution features including Motions (proposals for action), Reasons (supporting/opposing explanations), Statements, and browsing tools (Themes for topic exploration, Map for geographic discovery, Your Political Plumbing for constituency mapping). The Oracle serves as the central AI interface, while Motions and Reasons enable collective action. Your Political Power provides each constituent with a personalized view of their political representatives across all levels of government.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• State Platform A civic engagement web platform for UK (and US) constituents to make their concerns visible to elected representatives by submitting statements, creating or reacting to motions, and routing collective sentiment to the relevant decision-makers.
• The Oracle An AI-powered conversational guide that maps the UK's political structure (constituencies, elected representatives, wards, themes) and helps users navigate the platform by processing questions, complaints, proposals, and opinions and routing them to appropriate actions, existing motions, or representative dashboards.
• Motions A constituent-initiated proposal for action, national or local, addressed to the elected representative who can implement it; other constituents react on a four-point scale (Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree) and add supporting or opposing reasons.
• Your Political Power A personalized dashboard showing the user's parliamentary constituency, local ward, and elected representatives at each level (MP, councillors, mayor where applicable), enabling constituents to identify who they can hold accountable.
• Your Political Plumbing (Interactive Map) An interactive map displaying every UK parliamentary constituency; users can search by postcode, constituency, ward, or representative name to explore issues geographically.
• Themes A topic-based browsing feature allowing users to explore motions by theme, filter by constituency or recency, and discover issues gaining momentum.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AnthropiccoreTechnology or IntegrationAI provider that processes Oracle conversations to classify and respond to user inputs. Conversations are not used to train their models. Part of the core technology stack enabling the Oracle AI assistant feature.
• OpenAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI provider that processes Oracle conversations to classify and respond to user inputs. Conversations are not used to train their models. Part of the core technology stack enabling the Oracle AI assistant feature.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationCloud hosting provider. AWS in the London region hosts the database and infrastructure for State platform.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Change.org: Global petition and civic action platform that lets individuals start and sign campaigns directed at decision-makers. Direct peer to State in the consumer-facing civic-engagement category, though Change.org lacks verified-constituent and AI-routing capabilities.
• Decidim: Open-source participatory democracy platform used by cities and governments for citizen proposals, debates, and votes. Comparable to State's motion/reason system but typically deployed at an institutional level rather than as a consumer app.
• Consul (Decide Madrid): Open-source civic participation platform originating from Madrid's Decide Madrid initiative, enabling proposals, debates, and voting by verified residents. Comparable to State in its postcode-verified-citizen architecture and motion/proposal model.
• NationBuilder: Software platform used by political campaigns, parties, and advocacy organizations to manage supporters, donors, and constituent communications. Comparable to State in the political-constituency infrastructure space, though NationBuilder targets campaigns and parties as paying customers rather than individual constituents.
• CitizenLab: Civic engagement platform used by European cities and governments for citizen participation projects, with proposal and voting modules. Comparable to State in the citizen-to-government engagement space and a likely competitor for UK and EU local-government contracts.
• WriteToThem: UK service that helps constituents identify and contact their elected representatives via postcode lookup. Direct functional peer for State's representative-routing layer, though it lacks the motion/AI components and is run as a non-profit by mySociety.
• They Work For You: mySociety-run UK platform that tracks MPs' voting records and helps constituents find and contact their representatives. Adjacent UK civic-tech peer sharing the same postcode-to-representative core mechanic as State's 'Your Political Power'.

Emerging players

• Loomio: Collaborative decision-making tool for groups and organizations, with proposal/reaction mechanics similar to State's motions. Smaller scale and oriented toward organizational governance rather than legislator engagement.
• Pol.is: Open-source opinion-mapping platform that uses machine learning to surface clusters of agreement in large-scale civic conversations. Comparable to State in using AI to extract signal from constituent input, though Pol.is focuses on opinion mapping rather than routing to representatives.
• Countable: US-focused civic engagement app that summarizes legislation and lets constituents tell their representatives how to vote. Comparable to State in the AI-assisted constituent-to-representative feedback model and a likely competitor for the US expansion.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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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