OpenCongress NYC is built and maintained by Pierre Pariente Dimitrov — born and raised in France, but living in the United States for over a decade, across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.
Pierre is a product designer, UX designer, and engineer with fifteen years of experience building digital products across organizations of all sizes — from early-stage startups to large enterprises. 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, AI-powered 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.
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.