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CivicPulse: The Boots

A tool to detect ethical drift and quiet harm—on the ground, in the moment, where trust is built or broken.

CivicPulse: The Boots

CivicPulse brings ethics back to the field. It helps infrastructure teams assess the quiet harm, drift, and fatigue that often go unspoken—but deeply impact public trust.

CivicPulse is a structured tool for real-time check-ins, designed for frontline crews, division heads, and project teams. It introduces three grounding questions—each tailored to capture field-level insight on ethical friction, disconnects, and emerging risks.

The tool is intentionally low-tech and reflection-driven. It works at the truck tailgate, the construction trailer, or the project debrief. Teams use it to ask: What’s happening under the surface? Where are we off-course? What patterns are repeating that shouldn’t be?

In the words of one agency partner: “This helped us name things we always felt—but never had language for.”

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