How Pulse works

Start a petition addressed to the leader who can decide

A Pulse signal is a petition with a clear ask. You write a title, a short summary leaders can scan, the concrete decision you want, and the full case.

Then you pick the seat that can actually make the change, such as a lawmaker, a school board, a store manager or an HOA, and say why that seat. You can add a place label like a county or town.

Sign and say how much it matters

Signing asks for your name, email and place (city, state, ZIP). You also rate how important the ask is to you from 1 (mild support) to 5 (top priority for my community), and can add a note to leaders.

Each signal shows the average importance and how the ratings spread, so a leader sees more than a raw count.

Counts labeled by how strongly each signer is verified

Pulse never shows one unlabeled total. Signatures are counted by level: L1 Account, L2 Place stated, L3 Address-tier, L4 Strong ID.

Typing a street address does not make a signature L3. Place and ZIP count as L2 until a later verification step.

Send the decision-maker a formal notice

From any signal you can build a notice packet for the seat it is addressed to. The packet includes the ask and the signature counts by verification level.

Copy it into an email, open it in your email app when the seat has a public email address, or record an in-app notice that leaders who have claimed that seat see in their inbox.

Copy a campaign for your own area

If a signal elsewhere fits your town too, fork it: choose the leader who can act where you live and add your place. Pulse creates a local campaign linked to the original, ready to share with neighbors.

For leaders: an inbox and a public reply

Pulse is for anyone who leads a body of people: elected officials, school boards, pastors, HOAs, employers, nonprofit boards.

A leader signs in and claims their seat. In this pilot a claim is a self-claim, not independent verification of the office, and the app says so. The leader inbox lists the signals addressed to that seat with support labeled by verification level, and lets the leader post a public response that signers see on the signal.