Public first
Most people cannot name what their TD did this month. DáilDex closes that gap in the inbox, not another dashboard nobody opens.
For the public first. Then for people who can help fund it.
Ireland deserves a civic layer that stays free,sourced, and hard to capture.
DáilDex turns Oireachtas activity into plain-English alerts, Learn guides, Dex, and a structured API. Citizen tracking stays free. Capital accelerates reliability, open-model AI, and the surfaces that pay for the commons.
The record should reach people who never open oireachtas.ie.
No party, campaign, or advertiser buys placement in what we send.
AI explains official records. It does not invent them.
Why this page exists
If you live in Ireland, this is a public account of what DáilDex is building and what capital would change. If you invest, newsrooms, or fund civic tech, the same facts apply.
Capital with a boundary
We are seeking angel and seed capital, Irish civic-tech support, and newsroom partners who want structured data. Raising money does not mean putting citizen alerts behind a paywall.
Independence is the product
No scoring, no ranking, no sold follower lists. TDs and Senators can walk through the source if they want proof.
What ships today
Four surfaces. One source of truth: the Houses of the Oireachtas public record.
Email alerts
Follow TDs and Senators. Get source-linked plain-English notes when they vote, speak, or ask a parliamentary question. Reply in-thread for grounded follow-ups.
Follow a representativeDex
Free civic AI for government and Oireachtas questions. Official record lookups, selectable models including open-source options hosted in Ireland, no login, browser-local history.
Ask DexLearn
Evergreen guides on the Oireachtas, PR-STV, bills, budgets, parties, and EU law in Ireland, plus AI-assisted guide search that points people to the right explainer.
Browse LearnPublic API
Structured votes, speeches, questions, legislation, and representatives for newsrooms, researchers, and builders. Every record keeps a source URL. Pricing on request.
Read the API docsOpen models. Closed bias.
Dex and Learn chat can run on open-source models, including Nemotron options hosted in Ireland, alongside other selectable providers. The point is choice and auditability, not a single black-box vendor.
- Official records first. Lookups prefer Houses of the Oireachtas data over model improvisation.
- No political scoring. We describe what happened and link the source. We do not rate who is right.
- Restricted search, not open-web roaming. Dex stays inside civic and official bounds when it needs extra context.
Where this can go
These are forward probabilities, not shipped products. Capital makes the serious ones reachable without compromising the free citizen layer.
Future exploration
Dex for Transition Year
A classroom-safe path for TY students exploring the Irish political system: guided questions, Learn articles, and record-backed answers instead of viral clips and party pages.
Trust offer live
Tools politicians can trust
Not a campaign suite. A transparency stack TDs and Senators can inspect, with the same source discipline citizens get, plus clearer routes to verify wording and provenance.
Pilot direction
DáilDex Monitor
A planned paid workspace for NGOs, charities, trade associations, and small policy teams who need shared watchlists and sourced digests. Not for campaigns or voter profiling.
Fiscals: where funding is needed
Citizen alerts, Learn, and Dex stay free. Capital funds the work that keeps that promise durable while building paid surfaces that do not capture the commons.
Planned use of a raise. Approximate shares, not a historical burn report.
Ingestion, delivery, uptime, API depth, and the quiet work that keeps alerts minutes from the official record.
Irish-hosted open models, evaluation against official records, and Dex or Learn chat quality without inventing parliamentary facts.
More guides, better discovery, and future classroom experiments for students exploring how Irish politics actually works.
Privacy, security, corrections handling, newsroom onboarding, and the capacity to answer serious partners properly.
How revenue should work
Optional Plus for heavy follow-ups, newsroom and research tools, API access, and Monitor for organisations. Reader support is welcome. None of that is required to follow your TD.
What we will not sell
Follower interests, placement, or partisan framing. If capital ever required that trade, the product would have failed before the money arrived.
Understand us. Read the fiscals. Then talk.
Send a short note with who you are, what kind of capital or partnership you have in mind, and what you want to protect about the civic layer.
- Angel and seed investors who accept a free citizen commons
- Irish civic-tech funders and mission-aligned grants
- Newsrooms and research teams evaluating data partnership plus capital
Investment enquiries
invest@daildex.comEmail invest@daildex.comWe reply to serious notes. Curiosity is fine. Pitch decks that ignore the free layer are not.