electify.eu

What It Is

Electify was an AI-powered information assistant built for the 2024 European Parliament election in Germany, but it is no longer in operation. It helped more than 6,000 users understand the policy positions of political parties available in Germany, and it also released an updated version ahead of the 2025 German federal election. The project was developed by volunteers and originated as a graduation project at Data Science Retreat. Its code remains open source on GitHub under the MIT License.

Core Capabilities

Electify was built around a RAG — retrieval-augmented generation — system. After users entered questions about elections or policy issues, the system retrieved relevant materials from thousands of political documents, including election manifestos and parliamentary debates, and then used an AI language model to summarize the positions of different parties. This design is better suited to serious political information use cases than simply letting a large language model answer freely, because its responses are at least grounded in a specific document collection. However, the page does not disclose the exact model used, details of the retrieval strategy, citation mechanism, or any accuracy evaluation.

Pricing and Open Source

The main page does not provide information about commercial pricing, subscription plans, or free usage quotas. Electify was a volunteer-run public-interest project, with most costs covered privately by the team. The page only mentions that users could donate to help cover remaining expenses. One of its biggest strengths is that it is open source: developers can still view the project code on GitHub and study or reuse it under the MIT License.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths include a clearly defined purpose focused on real voter information needs, a RAG architecture well suited to processing large volumes of political documents, some media attention and user feedback, and an open-source nature that supports transparency and technical learning. Its weaknesses are also obvious: the service is already offline, so it cannot be assessed as a continuously available product; its privacy policy, data processing methods, API, and integration capabilities are not disclosed; and its content is mainly focused on the German election context, limiting its usefulness for Chinese users or elections in other countries.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Electify is better suited to developers and researchers studying AI public-service applications, election information tools, and real-world RAG implementations than to ordinary users looking for a ready-to-use product. The main text does not state whether it is accessible from China, and since the project has already shut down, its practical availability is uncertain. If you need alternatives, consider Wahl-O-Mat, NotebookLM, or using ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity together with official election manifestos for document analysis.