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, Civlio, is already in development.
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 ~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 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.
Civlio is our opening move: an honest attempt to make the legislative record legible, the money traceable, and civic participation a daily habit rather than a quadrennial event.
It aggregates real-time data from Congress.gov, the FEC, and Supreme Court filings, then runs it through an AI pipeline that summarizes in plain English, scores impact, and surfaces the influence behind each vote. Track bills. Track money. Track your representatives.
It's built for taxpayers, students, and journalists who want to know what their government is actually doing, not what the press release says it's doing. A live beta opens later this year to early contributors and advisors.
More products will follow. This is the beginning.
Every bill, every amendment, distilled to one paragraph a constituent can actually read.
Campaign donors, lobbying spend, and party-line deviations rendered as context — not noise.
A gamified daily brief that turns awareness into a contact, a comment, a vote.
A conversational interface that lets anyone query the legislative record as naturally as they'd text a friend.
The republic belongs to those who show up. Our job is to lower the cost of showing up.
