When people, not a handful of companies, hold power over how technology shapes work, prices and markets, the economy works for everyone.
TechEquity confronts concentrated corporate power and builds political will for an economy that works for everyday people, through research, advocacy and coalition building.
Vision, from the RFP: a world where people have agency over how technology shapes their economic opportunities.
One economy, three lenses
Your RFP calls these "lenses on one economy, not separate bodies of work." The redesign makes that literal: every resource, campaign and story is tagged to the lenses it touches, and the connections show up on every page.
Work and livelihoods
Workers have real power to shape how technology is developed, deployed and experienced.
Lens 1Economic agency
People can see, understand and contest the technological systems that shape what they can afford.
Lens 2Confronting corporate power and capital concentration
The rules governing corporations, capital and markets are strengthened and enforced.
Lens 3Work and livelihoods
The problem
Technology is being developed and deployed at work without the people who do the work having a say in it.
Framing from the RFP's description of this focus area. Final copy is written in the copywriting phase.
What we do
- Limit abusive worker data collection and surveillance.
- Track how AI is reshaping jobs and who does the data work behind it.
- Build policy from the experiences of workers, then follow it through enforcement.
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Economic agency
The problem
The systems that set what people pay for housing, groceries and essentials are increasingly invisible and unaccountable.
Framing from the RFP's description of this focus area.
What we do
- End surveillance pricing.
- Defend data privacy so people can see and contest the systems that shape what they can afford.
- Expose harm in housing tech and create transparency in housing data.
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Confronting corporate power and capital concentration
The problem
The rules that govern corporations, capital and markets have not kept pace with the companies they are meant to govern.
Framing from the RFP's description of this focus area.
What we do
- Expand state antitrust authority and strengthen enforcement.
- Reform tax structures that reward concentration.
- Keep eyes on the biggest players, including the #EyesOnOpenAI campaign's letters to the California Attorney General and the SEC.
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Research, reports, memos and tools, built as infrastructure for the field
Twenty-nine real items from techequity.us, tagged to the three lenses. Search as you type, combine filters, and share the exact view with a link. On the live site this hub also carries data tools and the program microsites (Data Work Landscape, AI Job Story, Housing Tech Bias).
Campaign tools that live in the CMS, not in a vendor's iframe
Action alerts, sign-ons and coalition pages are content types staff create in minutes. Each one is tagged to its lenses, so it appears where the related research is.
#EyesOnOpenAI sign-on
Join Californians asking the Attorney General and the SEC to hold OpenAI to the promises it made when it restructured. Letters sent May and June 2026; a one-year report card published October 27, 2026.
Illustrative 3,400 of a 5,000 signature goal
Thank you. On the live site this records the signature, sends a confirmation and updates the count.
Email your representative
The pattern for action alerts: a short ask, the bill number, a prefilled letter the supporter can edit, and the representative looked up from the ZIP code.
Your Assemblymember: [looked up on the live site]
Guide for supporters: There ought to be a law: how you can help make a bill a law in California
Coalition pages
A coalition page type with partner logos, a shared statement, sign-on roster and a press kit, editable by staff and shareable by partners. Your Our Work page lists 28 advocacy partner logos today; this gives each campaign its own home.
- → 2026 legislative agenda (real, April 28, 2026)
- → 2026 legislative wins (real, October 7, 2026)
- → Data work landscape 2.0 coalition illustrative
Two organizations, one design system, clean separation
The RFP asks whether the c4 site can share a CMS with the c3 site while staying distinct. Our recommendation: share the design system and components, not the installation.
- Platform
- A separate, lightweight WordPress install (one theme shared as a package with the c3 site, no page builder). If the Action site stays at a few pages, a static build from the same components is an equally valid option and costs less to host.
- Domain and hosting
- Its own domain and hosting account, owned by TechEquity Action, transferred from the current provider with DNS and redirects handled by us.
- Analytics and donations
- Separate analytics property and a separate donation processor account, so c3 and c4 funds and data never mix.
- Why not one multisite
- A shared install means shared users, shared plugins and shared outages; separation keeps the legal and reporting line between the organizations visible in the infrastructure, with no extra editing burden because the components are identical.
- Scope
- Platform recommendation, content migration from the current splash page, light design refresh to the new system, domain and hosting transfer, a two-page guide and a 30-minute training. Priced as its own line, as the RFP requires.
Political power for an economy that works for everyday people.
Draft copy. TechEquity Action is the advocacy arm; this page carries endorsements, ballot positions and ways to give that are legally distinct from the Collaborative.
Same type, color and components as the Collaborative site, with plum as the Action accent so a visitor always knows which organization they are on.
How staff edit this
WordPress, which your team already knows, with a custom block theme and structured content types. Editors fill in fields; the hub, the lens pages and the campaign lists update themselves.
| Content type | Fields | Appears in |
|---|---|---|
| Resource | Title, type, date, lenses, tags, summary, file or link, authors, related campaign | Hub, lens pages, homepage latest, related lists |
| Campaign | Ask, lenses, action type (sign-on, email, event), goal, partners, status | Take action, lens pages, coalition page |
| People | Name, role, bio, photo, board or staff | Who We Are, bylines |
| Press | Outlet, date, link, quote, lenses | Press Room, lens pages |
| Event | Date, format, registration link, recording, lenses | Events, hub as webinar recordings |
Roles, safety and history
- Roles: administrator, editor, contributor; campaign partners can be given a contributor login scoped to one coalition page.
- Revision history: every page and record keeps versions with one-click restore; scheduled publish and expire for action alerts.
- Guardrails: a locked design system, so nothing an editor does can break layout, color or accessibility; alt text required before publish.
- Training: two recorded sessions (admin and editor), a written guide, and a 30-day follow-up; the c4 team gets its own 30-minute session.
What an editor sees: Resources › Add New
WCAG 2.2 AA, shown on this page
- Skip link, landmarks, heading outline header, nav, main, sections with labelled headings, footer.
- Focus visible and not obscured (2.4.11) a 3px gold outline on every control; the sticky header never covers a focused element because anchor targets scroll with offset.
- Target size (2.5.8) buttons, links in menus and checkboxes are at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels.
- Contrast ink on paper 15.4:1; white on coral buttons 4.9:1; teal on paper 6.9:1; plum on paper 10.6:1; link color 7.0:1; muted text 5.7:1 (computed from the hex values in this stylesheet).
- Keyboard the menu, filters, search and forms work without a mouse; results count is announced through a live region.
- Motion scroll-reveal is disabled when the visitor prefers reduced motion; nothing autoplays.
- Consistent help and redundant entry (3.2.6, 3.3.7) Join and Donate in the same place on every screen; the sign-on form never asks twice for the same detail.
- Documents on the live site, every report gets an HTML summary page and an accessible PDF; the hub never links to a bare file.
Building on the July 2024 brand
Your RFP mentions the brand's collage photo style and hand-drawn elements. This prototype uses layered, slightly rotated shapes and hand-drawn marks as placeholders for that language. Palette and type below are proposals illustrative; the brand files replace them in the design phase.
Palette (proposed)
One accent per lens, so a visitor learns the color code in a minute. All text pairs meet 4.5:1.
Type (proposed)
Fraunces for headlines
Public Sans for everything else. Both are open-source Google Fonts, so there is no license cost and they load fast. If the 2024 brand specifies other faces, they drop in.
Photography: the collage treatment is applied in the CMS by a block that accepts a photo and a shape set, so staff reproduce the brand without a designer.
Who We Are, Our Approach, Press Room
Your current About content (Our Team, Board + Partners, Press Room) and Our Approach (Education + Research, Policy + Regulation, Implementation + Enforcement) migrate intact, with redirects from every current URL. The three approach pillars become a "How we work" strip on each lens page rather than a separate section of the site.
Stay up to date
Newsletter signup with a plain privacy consent checkbox, in the same place on every page.
Thanks. On the live site this goes to your email platform through its API.