Policymakr

What Policymakr does

Policymakr, Inc. is a Delaware non-profit C Corporation building a beta-stage, online collaborative platform that connects citizens, policy makers, and experts to work together on member-curated public policy projects. The company's positioning draws a deliberate contrast with social media, emphasizing verified profiles, fact-based engagement, project-focused workflows, and a non-partisan, ad-free governance model with no affiliation to any party, lobby, social class, or religion. Headquartered at 99 Wall Street, Suite 1047, New York, the company operates with 1–10 employees and has not yet launched publicly.

The product is a web-based, single-surface collaboration environment built on a Jamstack architecture: Hugo as the CMS, Bulma as the front-end framework, and Cloudflare Pages with Workers KV for hosting and edge data. Supporting services include Cloudflare for CDN and DDoS mitigation on 100% renewable-energy servers, Amazon SES for transactional email, Email Octopus for GDPR-compliant newsletter delivery, Plausible Analytics for cookieless traffic measurement, and Stripe and PayPal as payment gateways. The platform asserts GDPR, CCPA, and PECR compliance; no native mobile application is offered and no public API has been disclosed.

The intended revenue model combines annual paid-account subscriptions (pricing undisclosed, billed annually in advance, non-refundable) and donations, with explicit commitments to no advertising, no VC/PE ownership, and no enrichment of founders. Governance is structured around a Supervisory Board drawn from diverse political traditions and geographies. To date the company has disclosed no revenue, no funding rounds, and no customer logos; the platform remains in beta, capturing interest via newsletter subscription for early access, with a go-to-market that is community-led and product-led across organic social channels and an informational website.

Name

Policymakr

Legal name

Policymakr, Inc.

Website

https://policymakr.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Policymakr, Inc. is a Delaware non-profit running a beta-stage web platform connecting citizens, policy makers, and experts on member-curated public policy projects. The ad-free, verified-profile platform plans to fund operations through donations and annual member subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Policy Collaboration Platform

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Think Tanks, Policy Research & Public Policy Institutes (BPAGAFAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Policy, Regulatory & Public Affairs Research (BPAHALAF)

Keywords

• Policy collaboration platform
• Online think tank
• Civic engagement software
• Public policy projects
• Nonprofit collaboration tools

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Member Subscriptions: The site will run paid accounts funded exclusively by member subscriptions, in addition to donations. Fees for paid accounts will be billed in advance on an annual basis and are non-refundable.
2. Donations: The platform is non-profit and will be exclusively funded by donations alongside member subscriptions. There will never be any advertising on the platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Policymakr is building a web-based online think-tank platform that connects citizens, policy makers, and experts to collaborate on public policy formulation projects. The platform uses verified profiles and project-based workflows to support fact-based, non-partisan debate aimed at drafting and validating long-term policy solutions. It is currently in beta, with revenue to come from member subscriptions and donations once live.

Product overview

Policymakr is a single, unified online think-tank platform designed to connect citizens, policy makers, and experts for collaborative policy formulation. The platform is currently in beta and will operate on a subscription model (paid accounts), funded exclusively by donations and member subscriptions with no advertising. Core content consists of member-curated projects aimed at drafting and validating robust, long-term solutions to policy issues.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CloudflarecoreTechnology or IntegrationCloudflare provides content delivery network services, cloud cybersecurity, and DDoS mitigation. All data is hosted on 100% renewable energy powered servers in San Francisco, CA, and other Cloudflare locations.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• NationBuilder: Commercial civic engagement and campaign software used by political campaigns, nonprofits, and advocacy groups to organise supporters and run petitions. Overlaps with Policymakr in connecting citizens to political action, but is partisan-friendly and commercial rather than non-partisan and donation-funded.
• Change.org: Global petition and civic action platform used by citizens to campaign on policy issues. Comparable in mobilising citizens around policy, but focused on petitions and lobbying rather than structured, fact-based long-form policy drafting.
• FiscalNote (Quorum): Commercial legislative tracking, policy management, and stakeholder engagement platform sold to governments, corporations, and associations. Comparable in serving policymakers, but operates as paid enterprise SaaS into government buyers rather than a citizen-led nonprofit platform.

Direct peers

• Consul: Open-source civic participation platform originally built by the City of Madrid, used for proposals, debates, and participatory budgeting. Closely comparable to Policymakr in targeting structured citizen input into policy, but operated as government-deployed open-source software rather than a single nonprofit-owned instance.
• Decidim: Open-source participatory democracy platform used by cities and associations to run citizen assemblies, consultations, and policy co-creation. Most direct functional peer to Policymakr's citizen/policymaker/expert collaboration model, though Decidim is infrastructure and is deployed by public-sector customers rather than run as a single instance.
• Pol.is: Open-source real-time deliberation platform used for large-scale opinion mapping, notably in vTaiwan and other civic consultations. Directly comparable in spirit - using technology to surface consensus across large groups for policy input - though its mechanism is statistical opinion mapping rather than project-based policy drafting.
• Loomio: Cooperative-owned collaborative decision-making platform used by organisations to deliberate and decide on proposals. Comparable as a deliberation and group decision tool, but optimised for organisational governance rather than public policy formulation with a three-sided citizen/expert/policymaker audience.
• DemocracyOS: Net Politics Lab / Dem.arg initiative that builds open-source tools for citizens to debate and vote on policy proposals. Directly comparable mission of structured online policy deliberation between citizens and policymakers, but explicitly focused on voting and proposals rather than long-form project work.

Others

• Open Government Partnership: Multistakeholder initiative of 75+ countries and hundreds of civil society organisations promoting transparent, accountable governance. Comparable ecosystem actor and policy backer rather than a competing product; represents the institutional demand Policymakr is aligned with.

Emerging players

• All Our Ideas: Nonprofit-developed pairwise voting and idea-generation tool originally out of Princeton, used for civic consultations and research. Comparable as a lightweight citizen-input tool feeding into policy discussions, but narrower in scope and academic in deployment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/policymakr
• GitHubgithub.com/Policymakr
• Facebookfacebook.com/policymakr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/policymakr
• Instagraminstagram.com/policymakr

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

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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