Every parliamentary vote leaves a paper trail — claims, lobby interests, conflicts. We structure it so you can follow the money.
“New heating systems must use at least 65 % renewable energy — the Federal Government presented this core requirement as a climate-policy imperative.”
“Die breite Palette an Heizungsoptionen sichert eine bezahlbare Wärmeversorgung und verringert die Abhängigkeit von fossilen Energieträgern.”
“Die Wärmepumpe macht nur einen Bruchteil der Gesamtsanierungskosten aus, die die Bürger überwiegend selbst tragen müssen; das Gesetz werde die Bürger 2.500 Milliarden Euro kosten.”
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Bundestag plenary chamber · Photo: Chaddy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Die breite Palette an Heizungsoptionen sichert eine bezahlbare Wärmeversorgung und verringert die Abhängigkeit von fossilen Energieträgern.”
“Die Wärmepumpe macht nur einen Bruchteil der Gesamtsanierungskosten aus, die die Bürger überwiegend selbst tragen müssen; das Gesetz werde die Bürger 2.500 Milliarden Euro kosten.”
3452 registered organisations on this law
Track contested claims, lobby connections, and voting records for every Bundestag law.
The most recently updated claims that have at least one documented counter-argument in the graph.
“Das GModG sei eine Mogelpackung und eine Kostenfalle: Wo die Biokraftstoffe für die Biotreppe herkommen sollen, sei vollkommen ungeklärt; die Koalition wälze das Versorgungsrisiko…”
“Für ein Einfamilienhaus brauche man ein halbes Fußballfeld Ackerfläche, um den benötigten Biokraftstoff herzustellen — die Biotreppe sei deshalb schlicht nicht skalierbar.”
“Der Wegfall der 65-Prozent-Erneuerbare-Pflicht treibt Millionen Menschen in eine fossile Heizkostenfalle — Haushalte, die jetzt eine Gas- oder Ölheizung einbauen, werden langfristi…”
“Mit dem Gebäudeenergiegesetz 2023 gelte bereits ein besseres Gesetz, das im Gegensatz zum GModG das Klima verfassungskonform schütze. Mehrere Sachverständige hätten erhebliche verf…”
“Das Wärmeplanungsgesetz schafft erstmals einen verbindlichen Rechtsrahmen, der Gemeinden mit mehr als 100.000 Einwohnern verpflichtet, bis Ende 2026 und Gemeinden mit mehr als 10.0…”
A narrow, honest first slice is more useful than broad promises. We're explicit about the boundaries before anything else.
Democratic accountability requires that the process of knowing and deciding be structured, searchable, and independently verifiable — not locked in PDFs and press releases.
Every claim links to its source passage; every counter-argument links to what it disputes. Nothing floats free. Traceability isn't a feature — it's the discipline.
Empirical disputes — about data or method — are distinguished from value conflicts. Making that distinction explicit is what makes deliberation legible.
AI extracts candidate claims and arguments; human analysts review, correct, and approve every output. AI proposes; humans govern. No output bypasses review.
A single complete vertical slice — not a broad platform. We begin with one real Bundestag proceeding and work from there.
Two stated goals: fight the illicit market, and improve child and youth protection.
Consumers aged 18–25 rose by 100 % over 2011–2021 — the figure the claim rests on.
„Und jetzt wollen Sie sie weiter erhöhen!“ — legalisation will worsen, not improve, protection.
One real German Bundestag legislative proceeding, preserved with full provenance — source document, date, speaker identity, and passage position.
AI models propose candidate claims, evidence, and arguments from the document text. Every proposal is stored as a candidate, not a fact.
A human analyst reviews, corrects, and approves the AI proposals. The core discipline: AI proposes, humans govern. No output bypasses this step.
Two outputs: an analyst debate map showing argument structure, and a plain-language citizen brief with every claim linked to its source passage.
We test whether a journalist, NGO analyst, or policy researcher finds the outputs genuinely useful — before we expand scope.
Live demo · Gebäudeenergiegesetz
The Gebäudeenergiegesetz (GEG) 2023 — ingested, extracted, and structured into a traversable claim graph. Open to inspect now, before scope expands.
Claims, counter-arguments, and evidence from the GEG legislative proceeding — structured, linked to their source passages, and traversable. Hypothesis-level extractions; analyst review in progress.
The full whitepaper is in progress. It will describe the data model, provenance chain, entity resolution approach, and governance philosophy behind Civic Graph.
We're looking for a small number of people who care deeply about democratic transparency and want to help shape the first real slice.
Our intended first user. Help us understand what an analyst debate map needs to show — and whether the citizen brief format actually works.
Interested in building on a structured deliberation graph? Talk to us early about integration and use-cases.
Help improve claim and argument extraction from German parliamentary language and proceedings.
Review the Bundestag pilot for accuracy of extracted claims, argument structure, and political context.
We're deliberate about who we work with — small, high-trust, and mission-aligned. This is early-stage work with a narrow scope; the right collaborators find that honest.
