Audience Intelligence Platform
Bring your audience questions into focus. Discuss the context, evidence, and workflow your team needs.
Discuss audience intelligenceAbout Optiq
Optiq is the intelligence company.
We build the living system for understanding who is affected, who has authority, what shapes public opinion, and how conditions change around consequential projects and public decisions.
01 / The civic landscape
A data center, power plant, manufacturing facility, energy development, land use plan, or infrastructure investment enters a living field of people, institutions, memory, rules, and competing interpretations.
Explore the relationships around a decision
02 / Why an ontology
The Optiq Ontology / A living foundation
A static report captures a moment. Civic conditions keep moving. Boundaries change, institutions reorganize, coalitions form, sentiment shifts, and new evidence alters the meaning of what came before.
The Optiq Ontology keeps people, organizations, authority, influence, geography, behavior, and evidence connected across time. It gives teams a common civic picture while preserving the lineage behind each fact.
Consequential decisions require experienced people to interpret context, weigh uncertainty, and decide what action is responsible. The system gives that judgment a shared foundation.
See the Optiq Ontology03 / Built to be questioned
The graph was built under operational pressure, when answers had deadlines and assumptions could be challenged. Every pipeline is designed around that constraint, so facts carry source class, transformation, and time.
Geographic and behavioral history is reconciled across boundary and jurisdictional change. Entity resolution and geographic crosswalks let the same civic landscape remain legible over time.
Read the Optiq thesisInspect what stays attached to an answer.
Administrative records, public filings, and observed behavior have different origins. Keep those distinctions visible.
04 / How we operate
The responsibility travels with the evidence.
05 / Purpose-built applications
Applications turn the Optiq Ontology toward specific work. Shared evidence, applied to different questions.
People, places, institutions, and history.
Connected evidence. Persistent context.
Bring your audience questions into focus. Discuss the context, evidence, and workflow your team needs.
Discuss audience intelligenceAI-powered campaign intelligence. Built for electoral campaigns, constituent communications, and issue advocacy.
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The work ahead
More power on the grid. More things made here. Infrastructure that connects communities and creates opportunity. We believe unapologetically in an America that builds.
Our part is to help the people doing that work see the full picture: who is affected, who decides, and what it will take to move forward. Clearer intelligence for the decisions that shape the country.
Why we build