Pulse Check

Governments make enormous decisions using public opinion that is fragmented, infrequent and filtered through whoever shows up. Pulse Check lets Australians vote on individual policy ideas continuously, and turns that into electorate-level opinion data for the people making the decisions.

Elections happen every three or four years and policy decisions happen every day. In between, an elected representative reads opinion polls, petitions, lobbyists and email, all of which are shaped by who had the time and motivation to respond. Most people are too busy to write a submission or contact an MP, so the loudest input is rarely the most representative, and there is no continuous policy-by-policy view of what a constituency actually wants.

Pulse Check makes participation small enough to be routine. Australians vote on individual policy ideas from their phone rather than choosing a party as a bundle, and the results come back as structured, electorate-level insight rather than a raw tally. The proposition to a decision-maker is confidence: the ability to move on a policy knowing it is backed by data from the people it applies to.