Built by one person, for everyone.

OpenCongress NYC is built and maintained by Pierre Pariente Dimitrov, who is French and lives in New York.

Pierre is a product designer, UX designer, and engineer. His career has been about making complex systems more accessible and more usable.

OpenCongress NYC exists because of a simple observation: the work of the New York City Council is public, but it's not accessible. Introductions, Resolutions, Local Laws, committee referrals, and how all 51 council members vote are technically available, but buried in interfaces that weren't designed for regular New Yorkers. OpenCongress NYC was built to change that.

The same approach powers OpenCongress's coverage of the U.S. Congress and the French Parliament: clear, nonpartisan tools that make it easy to understand what your representatives are actually doing. New York City, the largest city legislature in the country, was a natural place to bring that to local government. The European Union is next.

Pierre also created Tempso, a classical music app that provides a rich metadata layer over streaming platforms, born from the same instinct to make niche, complex information more approachable.

OpenCongress is an independent, self-funded project. No venture capital, no political affiliations, no ads. Just one person trying to make civic information work better for everyone.