Frederick Douglass

Incarcerated people have access to tablets but content is predatory—charging extortionate fees for education while providing mostly entertainment.

A free, high-quality literacy and critical thinking curriculum designed specifically for tablet delivery in prisons. Not gamified distraction but rigorous learning—reading, writing, rhetoric, history of liberation movements. Partner with corrections systems by making it cheaper than current providers while superior in outcomes. Track recidivism data to prove value.

Gig workers cannot see how much they actually earn after expenses, cannot prove wage theft patterns, and have no leverage because their data belongs to the platforms.

A worker-owned data cooperative and earnings tracker. Workers log actual hours, expenses, and payments. The system calculates true hourly wages, identifies algorithmic punishment patterns, and aggregates anonymized data to expose company-wide practices. Make the invisible visible. Give workers their own records to use in organizing, litigation, or legislation.

Workers who witness or experience abuse have no safe, standardized way to document it with evidentiary weight. By the time they report, it is their word against the company's records.

A secure, timestamped documentation tool for workplace abuse—harassment, wage theft, safety violations, retaliation. Workers record incidents with date, time, location, witnesses. The system stores entries immutably with cryptographic proof of when they were created. Workers own their data and can share it with lawyers, journalists, or regulators.

Religious institutions that engage in exploitation, abuse, or hypocrisy face no systematic public accountability connecting their stated values to their actual conduct.

An open database tracking religious organizations' stated commitments alongside documented conduct—labor practices, abuse settlements, political spending, property dealings. Not opinion but fact: you said X, you did Y. Let congregants, donors, and the public see the gap.

Public figures speak in ways designed to manipulate rather than inform, but the techniques are invisible to untrained listeners. The same rhetorical devices used to justify slavery now saturate political speech, advertising, and online content.

A browser extension and mobile app that analyzes text and speech for manipulation techniques in real time. Not 'fact-checking' specific claims but revealing the structure of argument: here is an appeal to fear, here is a false dilemma, here is language designed to obscure rather than clarify. Teach the user to see the design behind the words.

Family separation continues—through immigration enforcement, incarceration, foster care—and the human costs are hidden because there is no systematic way for affected families to document their experiences in their own voices with institutional weight.

A secure oral history and documentation platform for families separated by state action. Families record their stories, upload whatever documentation they have, and create a permanent, searchable archive. The platform serves both as evidence repository and as collective testimony that makes the pattern visible.

Charitable and religious organizations solicit donations for specific purposes but face no systematic accountability for how funds are actually used. Donors cannot easily trace whether their money reached intended beneficiaries.

A transparent donation tracking platform where organizations publicly log fund allocation and outcomes. Donors see exactly how their contribution was used. Organizations that refuse transparency are flagged. The platform aggregates data to show sector-wide patterns: what percentage of donations reaches beneficiaries, what goes to overhead, what disappears.

The prison industrial complex involves thousands of companies profiting from incarceration, but the connections between investors, contractors, politicians, and policies are difficult for ordinary people to trace. The system is designed to diffuse responsibility.

An interactive map of who profits from incarceration—every company with prison contracts, every investor in those companies, every politician who received donations from them, every law they lobbied for. Make the architecture visible. Let anyone search by company, politician, or facility and see the web of financial relationships.

Self-taught people face credential barriers even when their knowledge exceeds that of formally educated competitors. The gatekeeping function of credentials often serves to maintain existing hierarchies by controlling access to legitimacy.

A competency verification platform where self-taught individuals demonstrate skills through standardized assessments, portfolio review, and peer validation—creating credentials that employers can trust without requiring traditional institutional affiliation. Begin with fields where self-teaching is most common: software development, design, writing, trades.

People emerging from incarceration often lack basic documentation—identification, work history, educational records—making reentry nearly impossible. The system that incarcerated them controls the records of their existence.

A portable, self-sovereign identity and credential platform for people reentering society. Users build a verified record of skills learned during incarceration, work history, education, and references. They control who sees what information. The platform helps obtain replacement documentation and creates a verified identity that exists independent of correctional systems.