Make the invisible, Visible
billy shows you where your money goes and offers more local choices. parley helps you and your neighbours build more local choices.
billy
Type a brand. See who owns it, with the source. Find somewhere closer to buy.
parley
How is your place really doing? Ask the people who live there, then decide together.
Oligarchy isn't working
We did away with kings because luck shouldn't determine how society functions. Big companies quietly take money out of your community. billy shows you where it goes, from public records, with the source and the date.
dig deeper into billy →Follow Your Money
Type or scan a brand and the chain unfolds: the company, its parent, and who ultimately owns it.
Redirect
Co-ops, employee-owned shops and local places, shown next to the brand you were about to buy.
Build Alliances
Boycotts with teeth. Catalogue your receipts, sign in with your bank account and aggregate your purchasing power. You have more power than you think.
picture 20,000 members in one city
moved every month from big chains to local, independent and co-op shops
- a boycott that worked9,000 members left a grocery chain. It met both demands, and the campaign closed with the receipt.
- a bakery that doubledA family bakery showed up next to a chain brand, and its regulars doubled in three months.
- a co-op that openedEnough members promised to switch that a new grocery co-op opened on the east side.
try it. type a brand you bought this week.
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billy is free. Pro is $2.99 USD a month and adds bank linking, for people who want to see where their money actually went.
Clarity Precedes Action
Not just money. parley can help you and your community assess your community's needs. Let's work together and make our communities resilient, sustainable and fun!
go on, grab a slice and pull it out. on a phone, press and hold it first.
dig deeper into parley →Clarity
Care, money, trust, skills, land, culture, spirit and agency. Grade each one for where you live. Only people there can see it, and nothing shows until five neighbours have graded.
Action
When we all focus on our community needs, action happens naturally.
Alliances
Using the Pol.is Consensus Protocol. Work within our communities and even other communities to help where we need help. You can pool community resources and decide on what to spend money on democratically.
picture one neighbourhood, a year in
funded and built by neighbours, and voted on in the open
- a tool library140 neighbours chipped in. Skills and care on the wheel warmed up.
- a community fridgeDecided in one week of votes. Now stocked by three local farms.
- a repair caféOnce a month, retired tradespeople teach neighbours to fix what they own.
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On the App Store now. Google Play is coming soon.
The Power is Yours.
billy is a BC benefit company, which means the public good it serves is written into the law that created it. Our mission is to become owned by the people who use billy and the people who build it, with any profit going into a treasury you vote on. billy and parley are tools to bring power back to the people.
billy and parley aren't backed by venture capital or advertisers. They're kept alive by ordinary people. Any amount subscribed or chipped in helps us drive the mission of human empowerment. We think every human deserves time, space and capacity. We hope that seeing behind the veil brings us closer together. We'll do our best to show you accurate information as objectively as we can. We think the economy should grow from the bottom up not trickle down. Bear with us as we navigate this together. Your feedback and skills are welcome.
chip in ♥Is my data private?
Yes. You can look up any brand in billy without an account. A lookup sends the barcode or the name, nothing else. There are no ads and we don't sell your data. Bank linking is opt-in and handled through Plaid, so your banking login never touches us, and your data is deleted when you disconnect.
Who's behind this?
billy and parley are made by a small BC benefit company founded by Jason. They're built on public records with a public corrections policy. No advertisers or investors sit in the middle.