Cortico is a nonprofit civic-technology organization that builds tools and methods for deep conversation and collaborative listening to bring underheard voices into civic spaces. Cortico's Twitter Score is 2.1 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #287,914 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Cortico, formally Cortico Corporation, was co-founded by Deb Roy, Eugene Yi, and Russell Stevens. The organization operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and works in close partnership with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, a relationship formalized through a cooperation agreement covering intellectual property, prototyping, and field pilots that was renewed in 2022 and runs through January 2032.
Cortico has participated in research into decentralized social-network design, including work involving Project Liberty's open-source Decentralized Social Networking Protocol. A 2023 collaborative effort involving Cortico, the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, and Project Liberty drew more than $22 million in funding commitments, according to Project Liberty, from backers including Reid Hoffman, the MCJ Amelior Foundation, the Quadrivium Foundation, the Knight Foundation, and Yat Siu; that figure covered the broader collaborative effort and was not solely directed to Cortico. Additional supporters of Cortico include the Aphorism Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Cortico has published 645 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 9 accounts a total of 26 times.
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The accounts that follow Cortico include 9 founders, 4 angel investors and 1 influencers, among them H.E. Justin Sun, Biz Stone, Erik Brynjolfsson, Michael S Galpert, MIT Media Lab and Ken.