Karere

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Take command of your next campaign.

Volunteers claim a walkable area, tick it off as they go, and record what they learn at the door. You watch coverage build in real time.

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Open beta until the end of 2026 — free while it runs.

The Karere map mid-campaign: blocks claimed by volunteers in amber and finished blocks in green, sitting next to untouched streets in grey.

One Saturday, on paper.

Every campaign has had this day.

  1. 8:40 AM

    The street list comes off the photocopier. Someone cuts it into strips with scissors.

  2. 9:15 AM

    A new volunteer turns up keen. That is twenty minutes on the phone before she can walk anywhere.

  3. 10:30 AM

    Nobody knows how many letterboxes are on Bealey Ave. The guess is 60. It is 143.

  4. 1:00 PM

    Two of them walk Rosamund Place. Neither finds out.

  5. 4:20 PM

    Cashmere Road does not get walked at all. Nobody notices for a week.

  6. 9:00 PM

    The group chat starts.

Karere replaces the clipboard with one map that everyone is looking at.

A campaign in progress, seen from above

An aerial map of a Christchurch suburb part-way through a campaign: a large block of streets in amber where volunteers have claimed the work, a block of streets in green where it is finished, and pale untouched streets around them.
  • Claimed — someone is walking it
  • Completed
  • Not yet touched

Three taps, then walk.

This is the whole product. There is nothing else a volunteer has to learn.

  1. A block selected on the phone map, with a sheet sliding up from the bottom offering the option to claim it.
    1

    Claim a block

    Open the map, tap an area, claim it. It turns amber for everyone, immediately, so nobody else picks it up. Standing on the street already? One tap on 📍 finds and selects the block you’re physically in — claim it from there.

  2. A grid of every house number on one street, with a note being typed against one of the addresses.
    2

    Walk it

    Search the street you’re standing in and every house number on it comes up, so nobody has to guess how much is left. Anything learned at the door goes in as a note against the address.

  3. The phone map zoomed out across a city, showing finished blocks in green spreading across several suburbs.
    3

    Tick it off

    Mark it complete. It turns green on every other volunteer’s phone and the coverage bar moves. No texting anyone, no end-of-day reconciliation.

See it before you ask for it.

The live demo is the whole product, pre-loaded with a Christchurch neighbourhood.

Try the live demo

No signup. No email. Invented data, real Christchurch streets.

When you're the one running it

Notes — every address on the street

Search a street, get every house number on it, and tap one to record what happened at that door.

Notes coming in live

Watch notes land in real time from the streets — every conversation and every follow-up as it happens.

Coordinator dashboard

Live progress, an activity feed, dual leaderboards, and CSV export of everything.

Your own branding

Your logo, your colours, your map home. No developer needed.

Made in New Zealand, for New Zealand campaigns.

Overseas canvassing tools are built around US and UK voter files. They cannot count a New Zealand address, they do not know what a walkable New Zealand block looks like, and they were never designed for the way a campaign is run here.

56,723
walkable blocks covering the whole country, and the unit a volunteer claims. A block never crosses a river or a motorway, so a claimed patch can always be walked.
2,416,263
addresses behind the map, so every block shows a real letterbox count rather than a guess.
Nationwide, day one
every city, town, suburb and rural road in the country is already loaded. There is no region to wait for and no map to build first.
Proof of concept
Karere was built in New Zealand as a proof of concept for a real mayoral campaign, then rebuilt as something any organisation can run.

Get early access

Karere is in open beta until the end of 2026 and it's free while the beta runs. Say what you'd use it for and you'll get an email back to set you up.

Open to any party, any candidate, any cause and any community group, on the same terms. There's no vetting and no gate.

This is for you, the coordinator. Your volunteers don't need an invite from anyone but you — they sign themselves up on your map, and you approve them with a tap.

No payment, no credit card, no obligation. The only email you'll get is about Karere, and there's nothing to unsubscribe from because there's no list.