The Goodly Institute
The Goodly Institute, operating as Goodly Labs, is a nonprofit innovation facility that develops collective intelligence systems for societal improvement. Founded in 2015 by Nicholas Adams, Ph.D., the organization builds people-powered technology platforms that address misinformation, improve democratic governance, and enable large-scale civic participation. Key projects include Public Editor (crowdsourced misinformation detection in news articles), Demo Watch (analysis of protest policing patterns), SamePage (deliberative democracy platform), and TextThresher (open-source crowdsourced text analysis). The organization partners with institutions including UC Berkeley's Institute for Data Science, MIT, Harvard, and the World Economic Forum.
Funding Details
- Annual Budget
- $1,156,304
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $96,359
- Current Runway
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Theory of Change
Goodly Labs believes that the core challenge facing society is not a lack of ideas but a lack of coordination. As technological connectivity increases and makes global impacts increasingly nonlinear and exponential, humanity needs better infrastructure for collective sense-making and deliberation. By building people-powered tools that enable citizens to systematically detect misinformation, deliberate on policy, and coordinate at scale, the organization aims to create societal infrastructure that can rise to the occasion of planet-scale challenges. Their approach pairs collaborative technology with rigorous social science to guide people in carefully evaluating information, restoring the trust necessary for coordination, and enabling democratic participation that can counterbalance the risks posed by concentrated power and AI-driven information manipulation.
Grants Received
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC