Grassroots is dirty work.We help a little bit.
Pedon is a free, open-source head start for community movements. Download it, answer a few questions, hand the plan to a coding agent, and launch your effort today.
Current products
Petitions
Design a single statement that supporters can sign.
Surveys
Customize questions to source community feedback.
Contact
A simple way for people to reach the organizer. Messages land in your admin panel and can forward to your email.
Tracking
Admin tracking of who signed, what people said, exports, and everything to manage your movement.
Breaking ground
How it works
1 Download.
Get the folder. Open it on your computer.
npm install && npm run dev2 Answer a few questions.
Groundwork asks what you are trying to do, who decides, and which tools you want. About twenty minutes.
3 Hand it to your agent.
Claude Code, Codex, whatever you use. It builds your first version from your plan.
4 Refine your draft.
The site is a first version on purpose. Make it yours with your agent: sections, photos, a second survey, your words everywhere.
Going live
Go live
Set up a database.
Where signatures and answers are kept. We recommend Supabase; the free tier is enough to start.
Deploy.
Put the site on the internet. We suggest Vercel.
Get a domain.
Buy one there or bring your own. A free address works until you do.
Get the word out.
You have a live website. Put it in the group chat, on social, and on the table at your next event.
Who it is for
- A crossing guard at the school gate
- Speed bumps on the street where the kids play
- Keep the branch library open on Saturdays
- A community garden on the empty lot
- Shade trees at the bus stop
- A stop sign at the corner everyone runs
- Save the neighborhood pool
- Working heat in the building before winter
- Lights on the walking trail
- A protected bike lane to the high school
- Keep the farmers market downtown
- Recycling pickup for apartment buildings
- Reopen the rec center after school
- Clean up the creek
- Lower the speed limit past the park
- A crosswalk by the senior center
- Fix the gym roof before the school board forgets
- Keep the polling place in the neighborhood
- A ramp at the post office
- A dog park that is not a parking lot
- Public comment before the zoning vote
- Bring back the Sunday bus
People who said “someone should do something” and then realized it was them.
Why it is free
We have been there.
We built Pedon because we have led our own grassroots efforts and had to stitch together a pile of software to do it. Anyone can build from scratch; Pedon is the head start that gets you going quicker.
We are always open to feedback and ideas, so do not hesitate to reach out.
Download pedon
The whole thing, as a folder. Open source, MIT, yours.
Version 0.1.0 · 2026-10-04