Pivot Tracker
A media-literacy tool that documents when public figures and outlets reverse a position on a major issue, surfacing the original statement and the current one side by side with dates and source links.
Civics students, journalism teachers, and politically engaged news consumers who want to evaluate consistency without doing hours of archival research
- Position-shift alerts on specific issues (Ukraine aid, immigration, trade) for the figures or outlets you follow
- Receipts view: original quote or clip side by side with the current statement, dated and sourced
- Issue-level consistency score per figure based on how often they've changed stance
- Daily 5-minute 'Position Shifts' digest filtered to the topics you care about
The 2026 midterms are bringing foreign-policy reversals and position flips into the news cycle, and existing media-bias tools like Ground News or AllSides cover outlets but not individual figure-level stance changes.
Niche but real audience: SpinkillerAI's Spin Tracker launched only ~2 months ago and is already selling $19–39/mo plans, confirming paying demand exists, but consumer base for figure-level stance tracking is small relative to outlet-level bias tools like Ground News.SpinkillerAI | AI Political Fact-Checker & Claim Tracker ↗Pricing — SpinkillerAI: Free, $19 Standard, $39 Pro ↗
Not wide open: SpinkillerAI already offers a direct 'Spin Tracker' with the exact feature set (public-figure + topic, source-cited position changes, shareable dossier); PolicyShift.ca and CanadaWill cover the same ground for Canadian politicians, compressing the whitespace meaningfully below the starting score of 6.SpinkillerAI | AI Political Fact-Checker & Claim Tracker ↗Track Canadian MPs' Policy Positions | PolicyShift.ca ↗
Validated willingness to pay: SpinkillerAI prices Spin Tracker at $19/mo and Topic Tracker at $39/mo; media-literacy education market is ~$4–6B with 10–12% CAGR, and civics-classroom/institutional licensing is a plausible upside channel beyond consumers.Pricing — SpinkillerAI: Free, $19 Standard, $39 Pro ↗Media Literacy Education Market Research Report 2033 ↗
Election cycles create recurring demand spikes (2026 midterms), and the broader media-literacy market is growing 10–12% annually on persistent misinformation concerns; however, partisan-tool perception risk could shorten lifespan if not rigorously non-partisan.Media Literacy Education Market Research Report 2033 ↗Snapshot 2024: State of Media Literacy ↗
Buildable but non-trivial: requires ingesting speeches, interviews, voting records and statements at scale, normalizing them per-figure/per-topic, and surfacing diffs with primary-source links — SpinkillerAI shipped it as a small startup, proving it's achievable, but the data pipeline and non-partisan labeling overhead are substantial.SpinkillerAI | AI Political Fact-Checker & Claim Tracker ↗