The company offers a text messaging platform that provides civic engagement, data collection, public outreach, communications, and mobile survey research services. Textizen helps governments and public institutions to bring new participants into civic dialogue and turn their input into structured, real-time analysis. The platform enables anyone to build, automate, and optimize two-way texts, and their customers span public participation, criminal justice, and behavioral health in 30 cities nationwide. Textizen is a spinoff of Code for America and winner of the Knight News Challenge: Mobile.