The Anti-Echo Chamber · Est. 2025
PoliPro is an app for understanding where you actually stand. Each debate gives you the strongest case from both sides, drawn from real reporting across the political spectrum. You read, take a position, and your political profile records what you believe, how firmly, and how it changes over time.
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How It Works
Pick from twelve topics, immigration to technology. Each debate presents two named positions side by side, with outside sources rated for bias so you know where every argument comes from.
A short reflection after each read: where you land between the two sides, how settled you are, and which opposing argument you found strongest.
Every reflection updates your political profile. Over weeks and months, you watch your convictions harden, soften, and move in ways you would never notice day to day.
Your Political Profile
Most political apps tell you about the world. PoliPro tells you about yourself. Every debate you read and every position you take feeds a private profile of your political thinking, built from your actual reasoning rather than a label you picked once.
It is the difference between calling yourself a moderate and seeing, issue by issue, where you actually are.
Your position on two axes, economic and social
A plain-English name for how you think, never a party
Where you lean on each of the twelve topics
How far you have moved since day one
Which issues you have settled and which are still open
The thinkers and statesmen whose politics echo yours
Why It Exists
Social platforms make money on attention, and outrage holds attention better than nuance. The result is an information environment that rewards certainty and punishes curiosity. You are shown the worst version of the other side until contempt feels like knowledge.
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
John Stuart Mill · On Liberty, 1859
PoliPro runs the other way. There is no engagement algorithm and no feed. Debates do not expire, both positions get their strongest honest case, and the only thing being tracked is your own thinking.
The goal is not to change your mind. It is to make sure your positions have been tested, and to show you what that testing does to them over time.
Roadmap
Version 1 · Shipped
Debates across twelve topics, both sides fairly framed, bias-rated sources, and the short reflection that captures where you stand.
Version 2 · Live Now
The two-axis compass, your archetype, per-topic scores, conviction tracking, drift since day one, and your intellectual lineage.
Version 3 · Next
Comparison features: where you sit relative to other readers, and how your sense of public opinion matches where people actually land.
Start Today
PoliPro is free on iOS. Your profile starts building from your first debate.
Download on the App StoreAbout PoliPro
Jay Mawicke, Liam Dowd, and Terence Kelly met at the United States Military Academy and served as Army officers. They built PoliPro to put the kind of structured, good-faith debate they trained in onto anyone's phone.
The Story
Jay and Liam studied international relations at West Point and became co-presidents of its Model United Nations team. The role took them to competitions in Geneva, New York, and The Hague, debating alongside students from more than forty countries. The lesson that stuck was simple: a well-structured argument changes minds that raw information never reaches. People walked out of those rooms understanding positions they had walked in dismissing.
Both went on to serve as Army officers, leading teams of Americans who disagreed about nearly everything except the job in front of them. Terence Kelly, a fellow West Point graduate and Ranger-qualified infantry officer, joined after hearing the pitch.
PoliPro is the product of that experience: the belief that disagreeing well is a skill, that it can be practiced, and that most public forums today train the opposite.
The Founders
Chief Executive Officer
Jay Mawicke
Born in Chicago and raised in Hong Kong. Jay studied international relations at West Point, co-led its Model UN team, and served as a Ranger-qualified infantry platoon leader. He has spent most of his life around people who see the world differently than he does, and built PoliPro so that experience scales.
Chief Operating Officer
Liam Dowd
Born in Berkeley to two lawyers, Liam grew up at a dinner table where every claim got cross-examined. He studied international relations at West Point, co-led Model UN with Jay, and served as an Army officer. He runs operations and keeps the debates honest.
Chief Strategy Officer
Terence Kelly
Born in New York, Terence grew up around local politics: his father held elected office and worked across the aisle as a matter of course. A West Point graduate and Ranger-qualified infantry officer, he joined PoliPro to help take that habit national.
The Vision
Most people can name their party faster than they can explain their positions. We are building the tool that closes that gap: read the real arguments, keep honest score of your own thinking, and know your politics the way you know your own handwriting.
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