Motions
that don’t get lost.
A calm platform for the substantive work between party conventions. So that on convention weekend there’s time for what matters – and not for 150 motions in two days.
If you’re active in a local chapter or an initiative,
none of this is new to you.
This is not an accusation against the party. It’s a structural problem that frustrates everyone involved – and one that a bit of tooling can solve.
Don’t replace the convention.
Make it better.
Demokratiemaschine does not replace the convention. It replaces the hectic, exhausting feeling before and after it.
The substantive engagement with motions shifts into a calm, asynchronous run-up. Arguments are collected and backed by sources. Amendments are discussed and consolidated in advance.
At the convention, time is then left for what conventions are actually good for: the truly contentious points – with people in the room, not with the minutes on your mind.
Same convention, same democracy. Distributed differently. Volume is replaced by substance – simply because there’s suddenly time for it.
Five tools that make your everyday work
noticeably lighter.
Motions that don’t get lost.
Every motion has a visible status – from “Submitted” to “Adopted at the national level”. You can also track what becomes of it when it gets passed on.
Arguments with substance.
Whoever puts forward a factual argument must cite a source. Whoever voices an opinion marks it as such. That makes debates more honest – and shorter.
Amendments with live preview.
Play through, before the vote, how the motion would look with different changes – no more confusion in the hall. This one tool we’re still finishing up.
A record of resolutions you can search.
Before you write a motion, you can see what already exists on the topic. Duplicate resolutions become rarer – even without 20 years of party memory.
A public page – with no CMS of your own.
Every committee gets a plain public page with a “report a concern” form. Citizens use it to bring in ideas that a motion can grow from – and you need no website of your own.
Arguments · most recent
Built by someone
who knows the problems first-hand.
I develop Demokratiemaschine on my own. I was active for several years as a local chapter chair – and I know the pain points described here not from a market analysis, but because too often on a Sunday evening I thought to myself: “There has to be a better way.”
I’m not building this because I went looking for a business idea. I’m building it because I would have needed this tool for my own work.
What you get – and what we hope for.
Honestly, so it’s a good fit.
+ What you get
- Free use throughout the entire pilot phase.
- Personal support during setup. No hotline, no tickets – we talk to each other.
- A say in deciding what gets built next.
- A direct line to the people building the tool.
→ What we hope for
- Honest feedback – even when something doesn’t work.
- Patience during phases when not everything runs smoothly yet.
- A willingness to really use the tool day to day, not just look at it once.
- A contact person on your side we can talk to regularly.
· What it is not
- Not a finished product. There will be things that are still missing or rough.
- No guarantee that every wished-for feature gets built.
- No self-service: you have to talk to us before getting started.
- No sales pitch. If it’s not a fit, we’ll say so openly.
Political data belongs to political groups.
Not to us, not to third parties.
Tell us briefly who you are
and what you need.
I’ll get back to you personally – no auto-responder, no sales tactics. If it’s not a fit, I’ll say so openly. That’s still better than a tool you don’t need.