Just as the understory - the unseen vegetation beneath a forest floor - is essential to a forest’s health, we believe the roots of policy lie in the often overlooked areas that shape our daily lives.

After spending countless hours researching how to vote in our cities, counties, and states, we built Understory to help find the unobserved details to city policies, bills, and discussions happening in our communities.

As software engineers, data scientists, and policy experts, we created a solution that helps us ask more informed questions of our cities and fosters better engagement between us and our cities.

We hope Understory gives you that same ability.