PositionPass
A reverse-Q&A tool where voters type a policy question in German ('Should Berlin cut free school lunches for high earners?') and get a sourced breakdown of how each candidate has actually answered it, drawn from interviews, votes, and press releases.
German-speaking voters who want to vote on issues, not party labels, especially first-time and swing voters in city-state elections
- Free-text policy question matched against a structured database of candidate statements with quotes and links
- Confidence indicator showing how directly each candidate has spoken on the topic
- Bias meter flagging interview sources by outlet lean (FAZ, taz, Bild)
- Shareable comparison cards for WhatsApp groups and family chats
Evers's CDU interview surfaced concrete wedge issues (free lunches, building rules, data protection) that swing voters want to test other candidates on, but interviews are scattered across paywalled outlets.
Wahl-O-Mat (bpb.de) is a fixture of German elections and multiple AI Q&A tools (wahl.chat, electify, wahlweise) launched around the 2024 EU and 2025 Bundestag elections, confirming real voter appetite; usage is sharply election-cycle bound though.Wahl-O-Mat | bpb.de ↗wahl.chat: Using AI to make a voting decision - TUM ↗
Market is already crowded with reverse-Q&A / RAG political tools for German voters: wahl.chat, electify.eu, wahlweise, plus legacy tools Wahl-O-Mat, Wahl-Kompass, Real-O-Mat and Votecompass — the 'ask a question, get candidate answers' angle is largely taken.Electify: Informiere dich zur Europawahl 2024 mit künstlicher Intelligenz ↗GermanPartiesQA: Benchmarking Commercial LLMs and AI Election Decision-Support Tools ↗
German civic-tech election tools are overwhelmingly free and publicly/civically funded (Wahl-O-Mat by bpb.de, Wahl-Kompass by Uni Münster, electify/wahl.chat as student/civic projects); electify.vote only recently listed paid tiers and most peers shut down after the election, indicating very weak willingness to pay.Pricing | Electify Vote ↗GitHub - electify-eu/electify-eu-static: Static page summarizing the project ↗
Usage is tightly coupled to election cycles (city-state, federal, EU) — even successful tools like electify.eu and wahl.chat go dormant between elections, and party positions change, so sources need constant re-indexing; hard to build year-round retention.Wahl.chat: student project supports political opinion-forming - TUM ↗
LLM + RAG pipeline over party manifestos and parliamentary records is proven (electify built one in months); main friction is scraping/licensing paywalled German press interviews at scale and keeping candidate stances fresh.GitHub - electify-eu/electify-app: An LLM-powered app helping voters ↗