About Our Voices
Our story, mission, and the motivation behind the app.
Core Principles
At Our Voices two core values guide everything we do: Transparency and Accountability. These aren’t just features of the app; they shape every business decision we make.
We’re building tools to increase trust in government, and we hold ourselves to the same standard. That means clear practices, open communication, and a commitment to being accountable to our users.
In a system where corruption can thrive, we believe making information more accessible is key to exposing inequality and driving change.
Democracy feels broken.
We watched politics devolve into a never-ending cycle of reversals and reactivity. One party takes over and dismantles everything built before, creating massive inefficiency and waste. Social media, meant to unite us, fragmented our online discourse into echo chambers. Trust in information eroded. It became clear to me: something had to change.
I didn't wait for someone else to fix it.
I'd spent years building artificial intelligence systems that transformed mountains of unstructured data into clear insights. First for government projects, then for law firms and healthcare policy. I was good at helping experts make sense of complexity, but I realized that everyday people deserved the same clarity about their democracy. So, I rolled up my sleeves and started building Our Voices: no politics, no nonsense, just trustworthy information and tools to genuinely make an impact.
Finding middle ground isn't easy, but it's worth it.
Every day, I speak with people from across the political spectrum, including analysts, activists, and everyday voters. My job is to zoom out, hear everyone, and help build bridges. Compromise isn't flashy. It's painstaking, iterative, and requires patience. But it's exactly how we'll build lasting stability. That's my promise: clear information, genuine validation, and more power for everyday voices.
About Noah Gioiosa, Founder
Noah is a Senior Data Scientist and AI Engineer specializing in natural language processing and large language models. He builds production-grade AI systems that turn messy, unstructured text into reliable, decision-ready data.
At an Am Law 100 firm, he led the development of legal AI platforms for document classification, data extraction, and review triage—work that has collectively saved clients tens of millions of dollars and years of document review time. He also built secure data pipelines and analytics for a U.S. defense contractor, improving time-to-insight under strict security and compliance requirements.
Noah earned an MS in Business Analytics and holds degrees in Physics and Astronomy from UMass Amherst. He founded Our Voices to make civic information clear, trustworthy, and actionable—advancing transparency and accountability in democracy.
What the App Does
Our Voices helps you skip the noise and get straight to the facts. We gather legislative data, connect it to the elected officials responsible, and summarize it in plain English, so you can understand the system without needing a law degree.
- Plain-language bill briefs updated nightly from the federal register.
- Accountability links that tie every clause, vote, and amendment back to the politicians involved.
- Candidate comparisons with high-level side-by-side views and deep-dive profile pages.
Illustrative Scenarios
(Examples of how someone could use Our Voices once fully launched.)
“A new bill pops up in the news. Coverage is contradictory. Instead of doom scrolling, I open Our Voices, read a plain-language summary, and decide for myself how I feel.”
“Election-day research used to be a scramble. Now I compare candidates side-by-side, check what they’ve actually supported, and vote with confidence, no endless PDFs required.”
Where We're Headed
We’re piloting in key states throughout 2025 to refine how feedback from voters gets aggregated and delivered to legislators. By 2026, we aim to cover all 50 states and onboard 100+ local governments. And in 2027, we’ll release an enterprise edition to help large organizations solve top-down communication problems.
The long-term goal is a democracy that feels less chaotic and more responsive. We won’t agree on everything, but with clearer information and tighter feedback loops, we can at least steer together.