Civic Workbench is an informal incubator for civic technology created in 2016 to host small tools and research on data science, language models, social media, civic institutions and the open web.
Contact: Jonathan Eyler-Werve · jonathan@eylerwerve.com
Projects
- Byline Extraction — Extracts author bylines from news articles so aggregators can credit the people who did the reporting. active
- Case Overview Agent — A coordination layer for benefits caseworkers — one assistant across the tools they already use, driven from workplace chat. pilot
- Emotional Metadata — A Gmail extension embedding the author's self-reported context in emails, to make text-only communication less damaging. archived
- Floodgate — A browser extension letting people mute unwanted content across the web — filtering by their own rules, no platform permission required. archived
- Nope Nope Nope — A Chrome extension that blocks social networks during sleep hours. archived
- Pride, Prejudice, Dungeons & Dragons — A Markov text mixer that mashes any set of source texts into generated sentences — Austen and the Monster Manual included. archived