About TheMany
A civic accountability tool for ordinary people in the United Kingdom. Free to use. Anonymous by design. Built by one person.
How TheMany works
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You describe your issue
Tell TheMany what is happening in your own words. You do not need to know who to contact or how to write a formal letter.
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TheMany finds everyone who should know
Using your postcode, TheMany identifies your MP, your local councillors, the relevant government departments, regulators, watchdogs, and campaign groups for your type of issue.
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AI drafts a clear, formal submission
Claude AI (from Anthropic) takes your words and turns them into a well-structured, personalised email for each recipient. You review it and can edit anything.
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You send everything at once
With a single action, your submission goes to every relevant body simultaneously — from your own email address. No one can claim they were not informed.
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You track the response
Your private, encrypted dashboard tracks every submission, FOI request, and SAR. It alerts you to legal response deadlines and helps you escalate if bodies fail to reply.
Our commitments
About AI in TheMany
We understand why people are wary of AI and honestly that wariness makes sense. The people with the most access to it asked themselves two questions first. How do we use this to gain more control, and how do we use this to make more money. Neither of those things benefits you.
We asked a different question. How do we use this to give ordinary people a voice they have never had before.
Here is exactly what AI does in TheMany and nothing more. It takes what you have told us in your own words and turns it into a clear well-structured email. That is it. It does not store your information, it does not learn from you, it does not report anything anywhere.
Your words, your concern, your voice, just presented in a way that is harder to ignore. We thought you deserved to know that.
How we keep you anonymous
We do not know who you are. That is intentional. TheMany does not ask for your name. It does not store your email address. It does not keep records of what you have raised or who you have contacted.
The only thing we use is the first part of your postcode to find your local representatives and we do not store even that.
Your tracking information, your FOI requests, your deadlines, your submission history, lives only on your own device encrypted under your control. Not ours.
If we were ever asked to hand over information about our users our honest answer would be we do not have any. We built it this way on purpose. You are here to hold power to account. The last thing you need is someone holding your data over you.
Why TheMany is free
TheMany is free because civic accountability should not cost money. It costs a small amount to run each month. Those costs are covered by voluntary contributions from people who found it useful.
There are no investors. There is no advertising. There is no data being sold. There is one person who built this and keeps it running because they believe ordinary people deserve a voice.
If you found TheMany useful and want to help keep it free for everyone, you can see exactly what it costs and contribute on the transparency page.
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Contact
For serious enquiries — press, partnerships, accessibility issues, or anything urgent — please use the address below. This inbox is checked infrequently. For quick questions, the transparency page has more options.
contact@wontbeignored.orgIf a GitHub repository is made public in future, a link will appear here.