How office verification works
Constituents need to trust that an office page is run by the office. So before anyone can manage one, we check three things. All three are required.
- 1
An official government email address
An address ending in .gov or .mil, or an official state domain such as agency.state.ma.us. We send a confirmation link to it, and you click it.
- 2
A signed letter of authorization
On official letterhead, signed by the official, their chief of staff, or the agency head. It names the person who will manage the page and which office it covers, and is dated within the last 90 days.
Email it as a PDF from the official address in step 1 to iamdemocracyapp@proton.me, with your claim code in the subject line. Sending it from that address proves control of it a second time.
- 3
A phone call to your office
We call the office on the number listed on its official .gov website, never a number given to us in the request, and confirm the request with the person who answers.
Never accepted
- Personal email addresses (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and the like)
- Unsigned or undated letters
- Screenshots
- Messages on social media
- Business cards on their own
Never collected
- Social Security numbers
- Photos of ID cards or badges
- Home addresses
We keep only a record of which checks were passed. The letter stays in our inbox, not in the app.
What happens after
Once all three checks pass, we hand the office page to the verified person. They can then edit it, publish it, and see the constituent dashboard for their district, their state, or the whole country. If someone leaves the office, the office tells us and the page is handed to their successor the same way.
Pricing
Offices that join now use I Am Democracy free during early access, while we build it with them. To talk about what your office needs, or about pricing later on, write to iamdemocracyapp@proton.me.
Outside the United States?
We work in the US today and open other countries one at a time, starting with those that ask most. Join the international waitlist →