“frank
Civic intelligence powered by real conversations.
Free. Open source. Works anywhere.
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Frank doesn't ask people to participate more. It goes to where they already are and makes what they're already saying visible to the people with power to act.
How it works
See what's really happening
Type any area. See who governs it, what the data says, what people are dealing with. A living picture of a place, cited from official sources.
Go talk to people
Frank teaches you how to ask questions that surface what actually matters. Not surveys. Real conversations, recorded with consent.
Make it visible
Everything people said becomes a public page. Quoted, anonymised, mapped. The community speaks for itself.
Connect to evidence
Every issue links to what's been tried elsewhere, what worked, what didn't, at what cost. Grounded in research, not opinion.
Hold power accountable
The page is public. If what people need is visible and the council does nothing, that's a choice everyone can see.
Real example: Beckton, London
Built from actual field interviews. Not synthetic data.
Top issue
Loss of community identity and demographic conveyor belt
“The area loses its identity. It changes like every day. It's a conveyor belt of ...”
severity 5/5 · 8 mentions
Live data
IMD Decile 1/10
Most deprived 10% in England
MP: James Asser (Labour)
src: Parliament UK, GOV.UK
Policy proposal
Beckton walking map and local history tr...
£3-5K one-off
Feasibility: High
Newham Heritage Strategy
Any
country
663K
politicians indexed
16
official data sources
0
cost to use
Data sources
Every value cited. Every source linked. If something is wrong, verify it immediately.
Open source
AGPL v3. Every prompt auditable. Every data source cited. If a council acts on this, they see exactly how it was produced.
github.com/Camaraarthur/frankTeam
Technical lead
Graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL. Published researcher in agent-based conversation analysis (AHFE 2024). Co-founder of Insights, an AI platform for processing conversation data. Currently AI Lead at Carlo Ratti Associati. Built the entire Frank platform.
Mikhail Kobelyan
Policy lead
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from UCL, specialising in European security. Contributed to the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism's capacity-building programmes. Leads Frank's policy methodology, stakeholder engagement, and research framework.