Why Vorialis
Not because they don't care — because a collective bargaining agreement is written like a legal document, cross-referenced across side letters and past practice, and usually lives as a PDF nobody opens until something's already gone wrong.
Why we built this
Contracts run long. Answers shouldn't have to.
Vorialis is built by union members, with input from members across industries — police, nurses, teachers, and electricians among them — who all kept hitting the same wall: a question they needed answered now, buried somewhere in eighty-plus pages of dense language. So they did what everyone does — they asked a rep. But every union runs on a small handful of people who always seem to know the answer, and getting asked the same questions over and over, week after week, wears them down. Vorialis exists to take that weight off the reps carrying it, not just to get members an answer faster.
The mark
A compass and a star, depending on how you look at it.
Look at our mark one way and it's a compass rose, the thing you check when you know where you want to go but not how to get there. Look again and it's a star, the oldest navigation tool there is, the one people steered by long before anyone drew a map. Both readings are the point. A contract is dense terrain, and finding your way through it shouldn't come down to luck or to catching the right person on a good day. The needle points somewhere specific: your article, your section, your answer.
What we believe
An answer with a citation is worth more than an answer that sounds sure. Vorialis is built to say "check with your union rep" rather than guess at something a member will rely on.
Vorialis reads the contract your local provides and reports back to your local. It's not building a shared model out of anyone's grievances or bargaining strategy.
Every feature exists because it replaces something a union rep or bargaining committee was already doing by hand, slower and without a paper trail.
Every question a member asks quietly becomes something your bargaining team can use later. Vorialis was built by union members who've been on both sides of that gap — fielding the questions, and trying to fix the contract that caused them.
See it in practice