Card Check
A private organizing platform for tech and nonprofit employees who want to form a union without their employer seeing it coming, with AI-drafted outreach emails, NLRB-ready filing templates, and a card-signing flow designed to withstand surveillance and pressure.
Software engineers, designers, and nonprofit staff organizing a union at their workplace
- Encrypted card-signing flow that minimizes peer pressure and tracks only aggregate counts
- AI-drafted outreach messages and FAQ answers tailored to the employer's public statements
- NLRB filing checklist with region-specific deadlines and required forms
- Real-time 'what to expect next' briefings when the employer responds publicly
Tech and nonprofit union drives are accelerating and employers are increasingly hiring union-avoidance firms, so workers need purpose-built tools rather than ad-hoc spreadsheets and group chats.
Tech and nonprofit unionization is a real, documented trend (Ars Technica, Nonprofit Risk, TWC broadening efforts) but much of the demand is already being met by established unions (CODE-CWA, USW Tech Union, TWC) and purpose-built tools.Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom ↗How Unionization is Impacting the Nonprofit World ↗
A near-identical product already exists: Union Technologies Inc.'s 'Groundswell' offers card campaigns, worker outreach, contact tracking, and certification-vote coordination. UnionX Software also provides digital cards, outreach, and NLRB filing support. The market is not wide open.Union Technologies Inc. — Building the digital infrastructure of the modern labour movement ↗Union Organizing Software | Digital Cards, Outreach & Filing Support ↗
Organizers are cash-strapped individuals or small committees; Unions are notoriously price-sensitive. Groundswell and UnionX Organizing have no public pricing and are still in preview/in-development, signaling unclear willingness-to-pay. Worker-targeted paid SaaS for a short-lived campaign is a tough sell.Union Organizing Software | Digital Cards, Outreach & Filing Support ↗Union App - Pricing ↗
Tech and nonprofit organizing trend is multi-year and structural (AI, RTO, layoffs), but NLRB rules and labor law shift with administrations, and campaign usage is episodic rather than recurring SaaS, weakening long-term retention.Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom ↗
Building card-signing flows and outreach is feasible, but surveillance-resistant design and NLRB-compliant templates require serious legal/security expertise and carry real liability risk if filings are challenged.