_ about quorum
_ synthetic schematics
Synthetic Schematics is an AI tools company focused on building products that close the gap between communities and the institutions that serve them. We believe the best software isn't necessarily the most complex. It's the most useful to the most people.
Quorum is our flagship civic infrastructure product. It's not the only thing we build, but it's the thing we're most proud of.
_ values
Utility over novelty
We build things that work, not things that only look good in a presentation.
Priced for the people who need it
Civic tech shouldn't require a grant to afford.
Transparent by default
Communities deserve to know how their data is used.
Resident-first design
If the resident doesn't use it, the municipality can't benefit from it.
_ origin story
The idea for Quorum came from watching the same problems persist in cities for years. Potholes, broken sidewalks, drainage issues that everyone knows about and nobody fixes. The easy explanation is that the city isn't doing its job. But the real problem is a lack of connection between the people who use the city every single day and the people who work for it. Residents vent on Facebook groups. DPW directors work from spreadsheets and phone calls. The gap between a reported problem and a repaired one is filled with nothing.
There's also a transparency problem. Most residents have no idea what their municipal departments are actually working on at any given time. That invisibility breeds frustration, and frustration without direction turns into noise. What we found is that residents don't just want to complain. They want to know their complaint went somewhere. And municipal staff don't lack work ethic, they lack signal. They don't know which problems matter most to the most people. Quorum gives both sides what they were missing.
Quorum sits at the center of what Synthetic Schematics is built to do: leverage computation to give voice to people and power to data that previously had neither. A resident reporting a pothole is a data point. A hundred residents upvoting it is a mandate. The job of software here isn't to replace human judgment. It's to make sure the right information reaches the people who can actually act on it. That's the intersection we're building at.
_ the products
_ quorum civil
The community app that lets residents report local issues, upvote what matters, and stay informed when things get fixed. Available on iOS and Android.
_ quorum works
The municipal dashboard that turns community upvotes into a prioritized, AI-routed work queue for DPW directors and town managers.