Democracy Earth Foundation · Jul 2026
Official product and foundation page highlighting the Democracy Earth Protocol, SAIRI, and the current mission/product positioning.
Censorship resistant democracies.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Democracy Earth Foundation is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit building open-source, censorship-resistant governance tools for borderless democracy. Its flagship product is the Democracy Earth Protocol, a programmable ballot box for creating and running elections, delegation, and voting workflows; newer public work also includes SAIRI, a tokenized autonomous AI agent. Public sources disagree on the founding date (2012 vs. 2015), so I’ve used the broader project’s earliest commonly cited year while noting the official site also references 2015.
Primary product
Democracy Earth Protocol
Founded
2012
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Remote
Industry
Political Organizations
Sub-industry
GovTech / digital democracy / voting infrastructure
Offices
Palo Alto, California, United States
Business model
nonprofit
open-source software
grant-funded
donation-funded
Funding
Stage
seed / grant-backed nonprofit
Total raised
$345K
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2015
Latest amount
$345K
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & Technologist
Founder & Finance
Felisa Blaquier
Philanthropy & Communication
Chair
Founders
Co-founder / CTO
Work & culture
Mission-driven, open-source, global-commons culture centered on borderless democracy, censorship resistance, and public collaboration across a distributed international team.
Work style
Remote
Product & market
Pricing
No public pricing disclosed; nonprofit/open-source, with funding via grants and donations rather than a standard SaaS price sheet.
Differentiators
- —censorship-resistant voting and governance
- —open-source codebase
- —programmable elections and delegation
- —privacy-first anonymous voting
- —supports multiple voting models including ranked choice, quadratic voting, and liquid democracy
- —borderless governance / self-sovereign identity orientation
- —AI-generated election configuration
- —integration with Proof of Humanity and on-chain governance
Technology
Base mainnet
Ethereum
Foundry
MetaMask
smart contracts
Solidity
cryptography
AI-assisted configuration
Proof of Humanity
Customers
nonprofits
political organizations
activists
DAOs
crypto communities
institutions of all sizes
cities
governments
communities
corporations
Competitors
Vocdoni
Scytl
Civitech
Voatz
Tally
pol.is
Scale & contact
Latest news
La Voz · Jul 2026
Interview with Santiago Siri discussing autonomous AI behavior and its implications for security and governance.
XT Exchange (Medium) · Apr 2026
External coverage describing SAIRI as a tokenized AI agent tied to Santiago Siri and Democracy Earth’s broader blockchain-governance work.
Play Podcasts / GreenPill · Jan 2026
Recent long-form interview covering Democracy Earth, Proof of Humanity, governance, identity, and AI with founder Santiago Siri.
Fast Forward · Jul 2016
Older but important background on the mission, liquid democracy model, and early blockchain-based voting approach.
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