What if democracy had an API? A research project exploring how personal AI agents, liquid democracy, and resource management could work together to create governance that actually represents people.
We delegate important life decisions — healthcare, education, finance, politics — to strangers we have never met: politicians elected through mass media campaigns, opaque algorithms, and distant institutions.
AI assistants are emerging as personal tools but operate in isolation, without governance frameworks or the ability to represent their user's values in collective decision-making.
Agora proposes a system where technology handles logistics, democracy handles values, and individuals retain sovereignty.
Algorithms optimize logistics — supply chains, energy grids, infrastructure — based on constraints the community defines. AI handles how, never what.
Citizens vote directly or delegate to trusted people in their network — a friend who is a doctor for health policy, an engineer for tech decisions. Delegation is always revocable.
Every individual retains ultimate control. Your personal AI team is calibrated to your values through coaching and self-assessment. You can override any delegate or agent at any time.
The Agora framework already exists as a personal productivity tool with AI agents, coaching, OKRs, and GTD. The current focus is adoption — validating that users actually delegate decisions to their agents and that those agents stay aligned with values over time.
See the Ikigai Team ProjectAgora is an open research project. Whether you are a developer, governance researcher, political scientist, or just someone who thinks democracy deserves better tooling — there is room for you.