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Civic
Tools that make public services transparent, accessible and responsive to every resident.
Inter-disciplinary tech society
Technology for civic life.
Postcode Studio brings together engineers, designers, researchers, policy thinkers and communities to build products that make neighbourhoods fairer, greener and better governed.
Civic techOpen dataClimate actionParticipatory designPublic interest AIDigital public goodsCommunity firstGovernance innovation
Civic techOpen dataClimate actionParticipatory designPublic interest AIDigital public goodsCommunity firstGovernance innovation
What we do
We prototype the public infrastructure of tomorrow — one postcode at a time.
Big problems are local before they are global. We start where people live: their street, their ward, their watershed. Then we build open, useful, testable technology alongside the people who will use it, and scale what works.
12+
Prototypes shipped
8
Disciplines in the room
30k
Citizens reached
100%
Open by default
Focus areas
Four colonies. One shared mission.
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Social
Platforms that strengthen mutual aid, inclusion and the everyday networks communities rely on.
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Ecological
Sensing, mapping and action tools for climate resilience and healthier local ecosystems.
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Governance
Infrastructure for participation, accountability and better collective decisions.
Showcase
Things we're building
Products, pilots and prototypes from the studio floor.
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Pilot
Parliament Watch
Helps newsrooms track parliament updates from acts, bills, committees, reports and questions, so the public can see what is changing and who is answerable for it.
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Live
Canopy Count
Map, identify and monitor street trees with a phone camera and on-device ML — turning residents into urban ecologists.
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Prototype
Sourced Out
Modelling Hyderabad's water sources, networks, supply and demand in one digital twin, so the city can see how water moves and test decisions before making them.
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Pilot
Kin Network
Match neighbours who need help with neighbours who can give it — groceries, rides, tutoring, care.
View projectHow we work
From street-level insight to shipped product
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Listen
Field research with residents, officials and organisations to find the real problem.
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Prototype
Fast, cheap experiments across design, code, data and policy.
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Pilot
Test in a real postcode with real people, measuring what matters.
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Scale & open
Release as open digital public goods others can adopt and adapt.
An ant alone is fragile. A colony builds cities. We build technology the same way.
— The Postcode Studio manifesto
Have a challenge in your postcode?
Governments, NGOs, researchers and citizens — bring us a problem and let's prototype a solution together.
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