Rotunda

Coming soon to iOS

Your government did something today.
Here’s what it means for you.

Rotunda turns the actual record — real bills, real votes, real representatives — into something you can read in five minutes and genuinely understand. No jargon, no shouting, no team colors.

In final testing now. No launch date to promise — when it’s genuinely ready, it ships.

Why this is hard

Politics isn’t confusing because you aren’t smart enough. It’s confusing because nobody translated it.

The record is public. It is also written in a dialect that takes years to learn, buried in documents nobody has time for, and covered — when it’s covered at all — as a fight between two teams rather than a decision that lands on your street.

So two things end up true at once: you can’t read what your government is doing, and you don’t know who’s doing it. Rotunda fixes both.

What the AI is actually for

A translator, not a narrator.

You already know AI can write things. The useful part here is narrower and far more valuable: it reads the procedural jargon all day so you never have to. Same facts, same sources, rewritten so they actually land.

What Congress publishes

New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act

Latest action

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 476.

What you read in Rotunda

This is about how the federal government coordinates with New Mexico's historic land grant communities — Spanish- and Mexican-era grants (“mercedes”) whose residents have long-standing rights to use certain lands. For families tied to those grants, it would formalize how federal agencies work with local land grant boards on managing it.

Where it stands

Cleared committee. Waiting on a vote by the full Senate.

A real bill from Rotunda’s database, shown exactly as both sides render it. “Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders” is not a detail you should have to look up to know whether something is about to become law.

And the hard limit: the model is only ever allowed to rephrase what the record already says. It never supplies a vote, a status, a sponsor or a date. If the record doesn’t have it, neither do we — and the app tells you that instead of filling the gap.

Who actually decides

Type your ZIP. Meet the people casting votes in your name.

Almost everyone can name the president. Far fewer can name the state delegate who votes on their rent, their schools and their commute — and that’s the person whose decisions reach you fastest.

The ones you can name

Your president and probably your senators. They get the coverage, and they decide the least about your daily life.

The ones you can’t

Your state senator and state delegate. They vote on your rent rules, your school funding, your road money — and most people have never heard their names.

The ones nobody covers

Your county council and city government. Closest to you, smallest ballot, lowest turnout, and almost no news outlet left to report on them.

Rotunda shows you all three levels from a single ZIP code — the real district you’re in, the people who hold those seats right now, what they’ve actually been voting on, and how to reach them. It’s the whole setup, and it takes about ten seconds.

Election Center

The midterms are the whole point.

An election is the one moment all of this stops being background information and becomes a decision you personally have to make. So Rotunda treats it as the main event, not a seasonal banner.

days until the midterms

  • 435House seatsEvery single one, as in every even year.
  • 35Senate seats33 on the regular cycle, plus 2 special elections.
  • 39Governorships36 states and 3 territories choose a governor.

What you get

From your ZIP code: the federal offices actually on your ballot, the district you vote in, who holds those seats now, and what they’ve been voting on all term — the record, not the advertising.

And what you won’t

Predictions, endorsements, poll-watching or horse-race framing. Rotunda will tell you what you’re deciding. It will never suggest how to decide it.

Where we don’t know, we say so. Rotunda only shows a contest it can confirm from an authoritative source. If we can’t verify your full ballot, you get what we have plus a plain statement of what’s missing — never a partial ballot dressed up as a complete one. For registration deadlines and polling places, your state election office is the only authority, and the app points you there.

Coverage

Government doesn’t only happen in Washington.

Most of what changes your rent, your commute and your school district is decided somewhere a national outlet will never cover.

The rules we build by

A civics app is only worth anything if you can trust it.

So these aren’t values on a page — they’re constraints enforced in the code.

AI translates. It never invents the record.

Votes, sponsors, bill status, officeholders and deadlines are copied from the government record or they don’t appear at all. A model is never asked to supply a fact — only to rephrase one. That line is enforced in the code, not just in the mission statement.

An empty space beats a confident guess.

If we can’t confirm your full ballot, you get what we have plus a plain statement of what’s missing. Rotunda would rather look incomplete than be quietly wrong about something you’d act on.

Every claim opens.

Each story carries its sources, and you can tap straight through to the bill text or the filing. You are never asked to take our word for it — the point is that you don’t have to.

No ads, no tracking, no team colors.

No analytics software of any kind, no account, no red and blue, no horse race. Your settings stay on your phone. The design goes out of its way not to tell you whose side a thing is on.

Almost there.

Rotunda is in final testing. There’s no mailing list to join — we’re not collecting addresses before we have something to send. If you have a question, write to a person.

info@rotundaapp.com