An assembly anyone can join. A budget anyone can read.
The Landsgemeinde works because everyone is in the square. Solon puts the square online — for residents in the hall, at home, or abroad.
What goes wrong today
Only some can come
Evening assemblies select for those who can be there, not for those who are affected.
Budgets nobody can follow
The numbers arrive as a PDF; where the money went is anyone's guess.
Proposals lost in committee
A resident's idea disappears between the meeting and the minutes.
How Solon helps
Anyone may propose
Residents with a seat put a question on the record — as any citizen of Glarus may from the floor.
Vote from anywhere
One click from home, alongside the vote in the hall; every ballot counted by the same rules.
Open books
Register the community's accounts and every resident sees the balance and where money went.
In your language
Proposals and results in the languages your residents speak.
Decisions groups like yours make
- Adopt next year's budget
- Choose between three plans for the school building
- Set the rules for the community hall
- Merge two committees
What works today
- Proposals and votes
Members propose in plain words and vote with one click; they can change their vote until it closes.
Available now - Six ways to count
Yes or no, consent, approval, dots, scores and ranked choice — chosen per decision.
Available now - Open books
Register the group's Bitcoin addresses and every member sees the balance, read straight from the chain.
Available now - Bank accounts, not only Bitcoin
Import bank statements so every payment is matched against the decision that allowed it.
Planned - Admission by vote
Someone asks to join; the members decide, and the record shows who admitted whom.
Planned - Five languages
English, German, French, Italian and Russian.
Available now
A place to start
Solon's rule template for this kind of group sets who may vote on what, how votes are counted, and how many must agree. It is a starting point: your group changes it by vote.
Compare the templatesHow this works in detail
The town template counts yes/no questions by simple majority with a quorum, and uses ranked or approval voting when there are several options — where a simple majority can elect the option most people rank last (see the counting page).
Solon does not replace the law your municipality answers to. Where cantonal or national law sets how a vote must be held, Solon runs the consultation, the record and the books around it, and the official vote stays where the law puts it.