A civic-technology company building the infrastructure citizens deserve.
RumoAve is building the connective tissue between government and the governed. We ship software that makes legislation legible, representation accountable, and civic participation a daily habit rather than a quadrennial event.
Our first product, Civly, is in development. Our column, Dispatches, runs below.
Knowing what government does is not enough. We design tools that turn attention into action — a signed petition, a called representative, a vote cast with understanding.
Legislation is written for lawyers. Governance is written for lobbyists. We translate both — without dumbing down — so constituents read the same text their representatives do.
Campaign finance, lobbying dollars, party-line deviations: we surface the signals that explain why your representative voted the way they did, plainly and without editorializing.
This is the debt your representatives authorized — on your behalf, with your money. The purpose of civic technology is to make sure you know what they spent it on.
Record-high spending by groups that don't disclose their donors — roughly double the 2020 total. The people paying for your elections are anonymous by design.
The Department of Defense has failed every audit since Congress first required them. An $824B budget; seven consecutive failures; no one can fully account for the money.
Of roughly 34,000 surveillance requests filed since 1979, fewer than a dozen have been denied. The secret court that authorizes domestic surveillance almost never says no.
More than eighteen professional influencers for every member of Congress, spending a record $4.44 billion in 2024 alone. They read the bills. You don't.
The first step, not the finish line.
The problems on this page won't be fixed by a single app. Dark money, failed audits, rubber-stamp surveillance, and industrial-scale lobbying are the product of decades of accumulated opacity. They'll take decades of sustained effort to unwind.
Civly is our opening move: an honest attempt to make the legislative record legible, the votes traceable, and civic participation a habit rather than a quadrennial event.
It pulls real-time data from Congress.gov and runs it through an AI pipeline that distills every bill into plain English, ranks what's actually getting attention, and records every roll-call vote. Read what Congress is doing. Watch what's moving. See how they voted.
Built for taxpayers, students, and journalists who want to know what their government is actually doing — not what the press release says. A live beta opens later this year to early contributors and advisors.
Every bill distilled to four "what it does" provisions a constituent can actually read. Not the press release. Not the committee report. The bill.
What moved today and what's worth watching, composed each morning from the highest-signal bills and votes. Homepage rankings weigh news attention from thousands of sources — so the list isn't just "most recent."
Every passed bill carries its roll-call inline. See the tally, the member-by-member positions, and the cross-party defectors who broke ranks.
Early seats reserved for journalists, researchers, congressional staff, and citizen advisors who want to shape the build.
What actually moved this week on the Hill — the bills introduced, the votes taken, the amendments quietly attached at midnight. Read from the record, summarized in plain English.
Where the public record fails: missing disclosures, redacted filings, opaque procedures, and the institutional habits that keep ordinary citizens from seeing what their government is doing.
Who is responsible, what they were paid to do, and what they actually did. Audit failures, oversight gaps, and the slow work of making opaque institutions show their math.
The column launches alongside the Civly beta. Subscribers receive it first, by email, the morning it publishes.
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