Choose What Fits Your Needs
Whether you are a citizen, public official, municipality, or organization, find the fit that matches your civic engagement needs and the verification flow used for your account.
Account Types
Citizen
Verify your identity with a passport or driver's license, then follow bills, elections, and civic events with a verified profile.
What You Get
Discuss legislation with other verified profiles in your community
Track bills, elections, and local priorities in one dashboard
Follow candidates and elected officials for updates
Find local town halls, meetings, and community events
Connect with others at events and in your community
See event follow-up actions on your dashboard
Earn badges and rewards for participating
ID Verified
Passport or driver's license supported. Alternative review is available if needed.Public Official / Candidate
Complete identity verification, finish your political profile, and go through team review before full account approval.
What You Get
Build an authentic following among verified profiles in your district
Keep your district informed with targeted posts and announcements
Host campaign events and town halls with clear follow-up actions
Reach people in your district with account-type-aware outreach tools
Share your platform, priorities, and policy wins in one place
Turn engagement into turnout with consistent, transparent communication
ID Verified + Manual Review
Identity verification is followed by profile completion and team review.Municipality
Run official town halls, elections, and public hearings through a municipality account reviewed by our team.
What You Get
Host official town halls, city council meetings, and elections
Reach CivixThread accounts across your jurisdiction
Publish official civic events through a municipality account reviewed by our team
Give citizens a chance to earn badges for attending your events
Streamline public hearing announcements and feedback
Build trust through transparent, accessible governance
Municipality Review
Official government account information is reviewed by our team before approval.Organization / Nonprofit
Upload official documents so your organization can be reviewed for events, advocacy, and community engagement.
What You Get
Bring your community together with events, workshops, and campaigns
Grow a supporter base through a document-reviewed organization profile
Give attendees clear follow-up actions after every event
Offer badges and rewards for participation
Control visibility for posts and events (public or supporters-only)
Mobilize people around specific issues with updates and calls to action
Document Verified
Official documents such as EIN or incorporation records are reviewed by our team.Verification Paths
Verification works differently depending on the account type. This section explains the actual workflow used in the app today.
ID Verified
For citizens, identity verification is completed through Stripe Identity using a passport or driver's license.
Supports the citizen verification flow used in the app today.
Alternative verification is always available and uses liveness capture plus reCAPTCHA to help keep bots out.
ID Verified + Manual Review
For public officials and candidates, identity verification is followed by profile completion and team review.
Starts with Stripe Identity for the individual account holder.
Final verification includes manual review by the CivixThread team.
Document Verified
For organizations, verification is based on uploaded official documents and supporting records.
May include EIN confirmation, 501(c)(3), business license, incorporation, or similar records.
Documents are reviewed by our team before approval.
Citizen is an account type that reflects a person's role in civic participation on CivixThread. It is not, by itself, a statement about verification level or legal citizenship status.
We strive to provide verification methods that help confirm actual U.S. citizenship and keep bots out of the platform, but we cannot guarantee citizenship status beyond what a specific verification process directly verifies. If you have feedback on this wording, please use our feedback form.