# compdemocracy/polis

:milky_way: Open Source AI for large scale open ended feedback

Repository: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/compdemocracy-polis
Homepage: https://pol.is
Language: JavaScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: data-science, civic-tech, deliberative-democracy, participatory-democracy
Last push: 2026-07-28T11:52:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3564, "days_push": 36, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1194, forks 262 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:56.714535+00:00)

## What it is
Polis is an open-source, AI-powered sentiment gathering platform for large-scale open-ended feedback, mapping high-dimensional opinion spaces to scale deliberation. It can be self-hosted via Docker or used through the main hosted deployment at pol.is.

## Use cases
- gather large-scale open-ended feedback from a community
- run participatory deliberation and consensus-finding processes
- map public opinion clusters on controversial topics
- replace surveys and focus groups with organic sentiment gathering
- engage citizens in civic decision-making
- self-host a deliberative democracy platform

## When to choose
- you need to collect and cluster opinions from thousands of participants
- you want a proven, research-backed deliberation tool with a hosted option
- you're running civic engagement, participatory budgeting, or organizational feedback processes

## When to avoid
- you need simple one-off surveys with predefined questions
- you need lightweight polling without opinion clustering
- you can't operate a multi-service JavaScript/Docker stack and don't want the hosted service

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: machine-learning, data-science, analytics, web-framework, self-hosted
- domain: data-science, analytics, e-government, social-media
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: civic-tech, deliberative-democracy, participatory-democracy, sentiment-analysis, opinion-mapping, crowdsourcing, web-server, docker, nodejs

## Member repositories
- compdemocracy/polis (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.714535+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:22:09.598206+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.714535+00:00, sha a21a527e685d)
  - homepage: https://pol.is (fetched 2026-08-29T12:29:14.891867+00:00, sha f9718ca4c24f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.