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A Note From the FounderCitizen has the most compelling real-world footage on the internet, captured live by people who were there. Almost none of it travels. Search TikTok for Citizen today and you will scroll a long way before you find us. I want the person who fixes that: someone who lives on thes

A Note From the FounderI have built product at Citizen since the first line of code, and I am still in it every day. Now I build with agents, and so does the rest of the company. Engineering, operations, and finance already run this way. The gap between an idea and a working build on my phone is mea

A Note from the Founder Mission Control is where Citizen happens. Every alert that reaches a phone before the sirens do started with a person in Mission Control deciding, in seconds, what a city needs to hear. Nine years in, we publish tens of thousands of incidents a day, and the alert reaches phon

A Note From the FounderCitizen has spent ten years building the only live network of what is happening in American cities right now. For most of that time it was a consumer product. It is now also the fastest way for the people responsible for protecting others at scale, stadiums, hospitals, corpora

A Note From the Founder Citizen is a pipeline before it is an app. Signal comes in from every major American city, gets detected, verified, written, and delivered to the right people in seconds, and the whole thing has to hold when a million people open the app at once because something is happening

A Note From the Founder I wrote the first version of this app in Swift and I still open Xcode most weeks. For years the gap between an idea and a build on my phone was measured in sprints. Now I build with agents and it is measured in hours, and the engineers here who work the same way ship more in

A Note From the Founder I design. I always have. For years I did it with a small team and a lot of late nights, and it got Citizen to millions of people. Now I do it with agents, and the gap between an idea and a working build on my phone is measured in hours. I need one designer who works that way

A Note from the Founder Citizen is the number one name in consumer safety in America. Hundreds of thousands of videos captured live at the scene. Countless lives saved because someone nearby knew in time. A brand millions of people already trust with the worst moments of their day. We built that on