Democracy x AI Mozilla Foundation Incubator Cohort Application

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Mozilla Foundation's Incubator helps technologists bridge the "valley of death" between prototyping and sustainability. We build community around promising ideas—finding the right users, contributors, mentors, and funders to sustain work without compromising values. We call this "product-community fit."

We're currently seeking applications for our Democracy x AI Incubator Cohort.

We're looking for projects that strengthen democratic practice by enabling better information access, building institutional transparency and accountability, or protecting and expanding civic space.

We welcome technologists building working technologies with demonstrated traction—that have moved beyond prototype to something people are using, even if your community is still small.

We anticipate funding up to 10 projects at $50,000 each for 12 months.

Submit your Project Proposal below by March 16, 2026 at 11:59 PT (March 17, 2026 at 6:59am UTC). You can find the full Call for Proposals here.

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Project Overview

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Project Summary

How would you describe your project in 25 words or less?

Project Category

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Project Stage

At what stage is your project? This cohort prioritizes projects with working technologies. Applications at the concept stage will be considered only in exceptional circumstances where the team demonstrates unusual traction or validation.

Project Details and Team

Your Project

What technology are you building? How does it address this cohort's theme?

Who’s part of the community you hope benefits from your project? How are you connecting with them? What community challenge does your project help to address?

Describe your project's traction. What’s working? What evidence do you have that this technology solves a real problem?

Your Team

Who is building this? What relevant experience does your team have?

Impact, Openness, and Theme Fit

Your vision for impact and sustainability

What would success look like in 2-3 years? How will you measure success?

What do you need to make this project sustainable long-term? What are the biggest barriers to getting there?

What would $50,000 unlock for your project?

Your commitment to openness

How will you share your code, learnings, and data with others? Is there already a larger community that contributes to the project?

Democratic Impact

How does your technology actively advance democratic practice? What specific democratic outcomes (participation, transparency, accountability, civic space protection) does it enable?

How is AI essential to achieving your democratic impact at scale or in ways that weren't previously possible? What would be lost without the AI component?

Provide a link to your code repository, demo, or website where we can see your project in action.

Provide a link to a 2-minute video (a Google Drive link, for example) showing your project and vision. This isn't about production value—we want to see the technology working and hear directly from your team about why it matters. (note, this video submission is not required, but strongly encouraged).

Please make sure the link works and is viewable publicly, or shared with incubator@mozillafoundation.org

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