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Announcement · May 21, 2026 · 3 min read

Recruiting Our Founding Reviewer Cohort

We're recruiting the founding reviewer cohort — balanced left, center, and right, leans disclosed publicly, and the review itself done blind.

The Civic Herald team

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We're opening the founding cohort

The hardest part of a trust product is the part you can't automate: people from across the spectrum checking the work and agreeing it's fair. Today we're opening applications for our founding reviewer cohort.

We are building the panel to be balanced on purpose — an even split of left, center, and right. The goal isn't to find reviewers with no opinions. It's to put a range of opinions on the same task and see where they agree.

How the review works

Each reviewer discloses their own political lean, and that disclosure is published. We think you should be able to see who is checking the work and where they stand.

The review itself is blind. A reviewer evaluates whether a claim about a bill is accurate and fairly stated, without being steered toward which side it might help or hurt. The bar is simple: a claim is only fair if someone who disagrees with it would still concede it's accurate.

Who we're looking for

We're not looking for credentials so much as care — people willing to read closely, argue in good faith, and hold a claim to the same standard whether or not they like where it lands. If that sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you.

You can apply on the become a reviewer page, and you can see how the panel is composed — and the disclosed leans — on the reviewer cohort page as seats fill.

This cohort sets the tone for everything that follows. We're glad to be building it with people who care that the math was never cooked for one side.

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