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Hey g0v 👋

I'm Evgeniia, building CivicOS — launching a pilot in Frisco, Texas (230K residents, fastest-growing US city).

Our first build is a city-level citizen voting layer: residents vote on neighborhood priorities, local decisions, and city policies. Simple, focused, real.

vTaiwan is our most important reference for one specific reason: the binding commitment model. Government pre-commits to act before the consultation opens. That changes everything — it's the difference between civic theater and real power.

We're designing this layer now and I have three specific questions:

1. Pre-commitment mechanics — How exactly does the government pre-commitment work in practice? Is it a formal resolution? A legal instrument? How do you prevent officials from walking it back after results come in?
1. Threshold design — How did you decide what percentage of participation triggers a binding outcome? What happened when turnout was low?
1. First deployment — What did your very first city-level vote look like? What did you get wrong that you'd fix now?
We're not at budget or fiscal questions yet — purely focused on getting the deliberation and commitment layer right first.

Building open. Happy to share everything we learn.

— Evgeniia

Hey g0v 👋

I'm Evgeniia, building CivicOS — launching a pilot in Frisco, Texas (230K residents, fastest-growing US city).

Our first build is a city-level citizen voting layer: residents vote on neighborhood priorities, local decisions, and city policies. Simple, focused, real.

vTaiwan is our most important reference for one specific reason: the binding commitment model. Government pre-commits to act before the consultation opens. That changes everything — it's the difference between civic theater and real power.

We're designing this layer now and I have three specific questions:

1. Pre-commitment mechanics — How exactly does the government pre-commitment work in practice? Is it a formal resolution? A legal instrument? How do you prevent officials from walking it back after results come in?
1. Threshold design — How did you decide what percentage of participation triggers a binding outcome? What happened when turnout was low?
1. First deployment — What did your very first city-level vote look like? What did you get wrong that you'd fix now?
We're not at budget or fiscal questions yet — purely focused on getting the deliberation and commitment layer right first.

Building open. Happy to share everything we learn.

— Evgeniia