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the money.
Every receipt is a record of who you just funded. billy reads the trail — merchant, parent, ultimate owner, jurisdiction — and shows you where each dollar ends up.
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what you buy.
Type any brand you bought this week. billy shows you the corporate family tree behind it.
Real-life clarity · Real-life action · One step at a time
Three ways to use your money with your eyes open.
See the ownership behind 4,868 brands.
Tap any brand and the chain unfolds — named companies, labelled hops, sourced filings — up to the people who ultimately profit.
Join campaigns with real demands — and vote on them.
Campaigns carry specific, checkable demands. Members write the reasons; everyone votes agree, pass, or disagree; the reasons people agree on across sides rise to the top.
Find local alternatives nearby.
Commit to a boycott and the most useful alternative rises to the top of your shopping list. Over 400 curated: co-ops, employee-owned, locally anchored.
Bridges, not battles.
billy communities settle what to demand the way Taiwan settled its biggest fights — by finding what everyone actually agrees on.
You read one sentence at a time and tap agree, disagree, or pass. No comment threads, no pile-ons.
Everyone lands in a group of like-minded voters. You can see where you sit and who you sit near.
Not 51% beats 49%. A demand rises only if it earns support inside and across every group — so it bridges divides instead of steamrolling a minority.
"Only the ideas that speak to both sides gain prominence."
When Uber arrived in Taiwan, taxi drivers and riders were at war. Instead of a shouting match, 4,500 strangers voted on hundreds of short statements online. Polarizing takes lost support; a handful of statements everyone could live with rose to the top.
The government wrote that consensus into regulation. A deadlock became a rulebook — without a single town-hall brawl.
In Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2,000 residents tried the same thing and discovered they agreed on most of daily life — the real disagreements were a short list.
Method: Pol.is-style group-informed consensus · vTaiwan (2015), Bowling Green (2018)
Try it yourself.
Vote on three statements about a delivery-app dispute. Watch which one bridges both groups. (Illustrative demo — not live data.)
This is how billy communities hash out issues and boycott demands — coming to the app as Issues. Pol.is finds the agreement; your collective buying power is what gives it teeth.
Pol.is for your community.
Run this exact process with your own street, school, or campaign — surface the demands everyone actually agrees on, then point your collective spending at them.
Real demands, tracked in the open.
Amazon
Two specific, checkable demands. Members vote them up; the campaign carries the ones that hold.
Support figures shown are illustrative pending live vote tallies.
Free for everyone. Pro for those who can.
The whole app above is free. Paying is how you keep it independent.
- Ownership lookup for 4,868 brands
- Join campaigns and vote on demands
- Find local alternatives nearby
- Everything in Free
- Early access to new features via Labs
- Bank-linked spending clarity, opt-in
- You keep the mission ad-free
- Listed in the alternatives people see
- Pick your own price on the sliding scale
- Same features at every price
- Rank is not for sale
No ads. No investors.
Funded by the people who use it.
billy isn't backed by venture capital or advertisers. It's kept alive by ordinary people who think it should exist. If that's you, chip in.
Donate to billyStraight answers.
Is my data private? +
Yes. billy has no ads and doesn't sell your data. Bank linking is opt-in and handled through Plaid — your banking credentials never touch us, and your data is deleted when you disconnect. There's no social graph and no follower counts.
Why $2.99? +
It's the price of keeping the app independent — no ads, no investors, no selling data. Pro is genuinely optional; the whole app works for free. Paying is for people who want the mission to keep going and want early access to what's next.
What's a boycott campaign? +
A campaign is a shared, public effort aimed at one company with specific, checkable demands — not a vague "don't buy this." Members write the reasons, vote on them, and the demands that hold across the group carry forward. billy tracks what's happening in the open.
Is this only in Canada? +
The ownership data covers many Canadian and US companies, built from SEC EDGAR and SEDAR filings. Ownership lookups work wherever those brands are sold; local alternatives are most complete in Canada today and growing.
Who's behind this? +
billy is an independent project founded by Jason, built on public records with a public corrections policy. It's not owned by advertisers or investors — the whole point is that no corporation sits in the middle.
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