The team · c/o Values for America
Builders of the civic operating system.
Values for America is a small founding team augmented by contributors, advisors, and volunteers from across the civic-tech, legal, journalism, and engineering communities.
Founder
“Origin signal”
Founder
Values for America · Architect, OpenOS
Values for America was founded and is being built by a single operator working from the v4.3 architecture document that became OpenOS. Full founder identity and professional background will be published alongside the formal 501(c)(3) charter filing.
Per our own transparency doctrine: the founder's legal name, professional background, and any financial relationships relevant to the foundation will be disclosed before public launch.
Advisors & Contributors
“Open seats”
We are actively building out the advisory board and contributor team. Target profiles include: constitutional law scholars, civic-tech veterans, former elected officials who understand the problem from the inside, legal-defense organizations (EFF, ACLU, Knight Institute), data-ingest and ML engineers, security researchers, and civil-liberties advocates from across the ideological spectrum.
If you are one of these people, we want to hear from you.
Open roles
“Join the team”
Values for America is recruiting contributors, advisors, and volunteers. If you have skills in any of the following areas and you believe the Constitution is worth building operational infrastructure around — we want to talk.
- → Python / FastAPI / SQLAlchemy backend
- → Data-ingest pipelines (Congress.gov, FEC, state APIs)
- → AI/ML for pattern detection and constitutional analysis
- → Frontend: Jinja2, Alpine.js, Tailwind (or your stack of choice)
- → Infrastructure: Railway, multi-cloud, federation
- → Security: auth, data poisoning defense, classified-tier controls
- → Constitutional law scholarship & review
- → Civic-tech strategy and partnerships
- → Legal defense / SLAPP response
- → Investigative journalism / primary source verification
- → Policy / legislative relations
- → Fundraising, development, donor relations
- → Communications and mission storytelling
How to reach us
The canonical intake channel — email, secure messaging, and contact form — will go live with the public launch. For now, if you found this page and the work resonates, push through your network to get introduced. We're looking for people who will be here in five years, not people looking for their next resume line.