Social media platforms today have displaced our individual and collective agency from local neighborhoods to global networks.

We now spend more time collaborating with one another online than we do in our own backyards. Our civic infrastructure was not built for this growing phenomenon.

Our towns and cities require a new operating system that blends the best of both worlds to catalyze in-person communities, connect us with opportunity, and build the cities that we want to live in.

build_cities is the CivicOS that replaces scrolling with creating, optimizes for collaboration offline, and galvanizes the community towards quantifiable economic goals.