Pythia: Community Intelligence for Better Clean Energy Development

You can add many different sources of information to Pythia to analyze, including emails, research reports, meeting notes, and transcripts of meetings or conversations that you've had.

You can also have a direct conversation over voice or text chat with Pythia in the same way that you'd onboard a new staff person or coalition partner.

This is the Pythia dashboard and it provides both high level sentiment analysis and ways to drill down looking at what the community has shared from many different angles and perspectives.

Scroll down and you can see what sorts of impacts residents are most worried about.

In this example, residents are saying that they're most worried about the loss of land that's zoned for agricultural use, and about a developer coming in from out of state that they don't yet know or trust.

If you share demographic information with Pythia, it can also help you identify important voices you're missing from the conversation, like women, indigenous folks, non English speakers, and frontliners.

Pythia also gives you the chance to evaluate potential sites in your community and which ones have more or less support.

One of the things we think can be really valuable is showing how your direct input can paint a different picture compared to the public record.

Sensational reporting, public meeting minutes, petitions, and social media may make certain issues seem like deal breakers when there's actually still room for dialogue.

In addition to the dashboard, the Pythia platform, includes tools to help grassroots organizers who are not permitting and planning or renewable energy experts understand the fundamentals of the development process and when communities can influence outcomes.

We've also designed this survey builder informed by best practices in social science methodology, so that you can be confident that you're getting an accurate picture.

No technical knowledge or expertise are required.

Just tell Pythia in plain English what you want to learn from your survey.

The builder will then suggest which questions to ask and how to frame them so they're scientifically sound.

Then it'll build a professional looking survey you can distribute immediately.

Responses will be automatically incorporated into your sentiment analysis on your dashboard.

You control your dataset and get to choose when and how it's shared.

So here you can create a public webpage showing your findings or generate professional looking fact sheets or reports in a matter of seconds.