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What can we do to bring foot traffic back to small businesses on our commercial corridors?
Example thread
Turning neighbors’ conversations into action.
POVii gives San Francisco a place to work through its hardest problems together, from the first idea to the last vote to the action that follows.
Every neighborhood already has the answers. They’re scattered across group chats, comment sections and community meetings. POVii gathers them, weighs them, and acts on them.
POVii is a nonprofit initiative built through a strategic technology partnership with Vii, the social impact platform for people who want their conversations to go somewhere.
At its center is Solve With Us: structured problem‑solving threads with a clear mission and a deadline. Residents propose solutions, name root causes, share perspectives and bring sourced data. The community votes. Vii AI turns the winning idea into a resolution, and neighbors carry out the action steps together.
Threads are already running. Now we’re bringing it to every corner of San Francisco.
How Solve With Us works
Every thread moves through the same five stages, so a conversation always ends in a decision.
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Set the mission
A thread opens with one clear question and a deadline. The thread admin keeps it on track.
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Bring your point of view
Neighbors post typed contributions, so solutions, causes and evidence stay easy to tell apart.
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Vote on the top four
When the deadline hits, the four strongest solutions go straight to a community poll.
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Publish the resolution
Vii AI summarizes the winning solution into a resolution article the whole city can read.
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Act on it
Action steps are voted on, then carried out with events, sign‑ups and shared files.
Every post has a type:SolutionRoot causePerspectiveAction stepData / stat · source required
Inside a thread
Here’s what a thread looks like from discussion through to a published resolution.
Solve with usCloses in 3 days
How can we make our corridors feel safer after dark?
Mission: one change neighbors can deliver before winter.
Community poll · top 41,284 votes
Resolution · written by Vii AI
Neighbors chose merchant‑funded lighting. Next up: vote on the first three blocks and join the install day.
Example thread for illustration.
Partners
POVii works alongside organizations already rooted in the communities they serve.
Technology partner
Vii
The social app that powers POVii, including Solve With Us threads and the Vii AI engine.
Community partner
NIADC
An early partner and pilot organization.
Community partner · East Oakland
Black Cultural Zone
An early partner and pilot organization in East Oakland.
The team
POVii’s leadership, alongside the Vii team that builds its technology.
POVii Leadership
JT
FA
Strategic Partner
JA
BJ
Solve with us
Your neighborhood’s next answer starts with your point of view.
Join a thread on Vii, bring a problem your block is facing, or partner with us to run Solve With Us in your community.
Merchant‑funded string lighting on every block, maintained by the business association.
Half the storefronts on my block close by 6. Dark windows read as empty streets.
Better street lighting is linked to fewer nighttime incidents in several city studies.
Source attached