The platform was intended to help users connect with others who share the same or similar views and to voice their opinions, create debates, or organize petitions.

John Thrall worked in engineering, Jason Putorti in design, and Miche Capone in production.

Sean Parker was the chairman of the startup, sat on the board of Spotify and was the founding president of Facebook.

[10] A few weeks before the November 2016 elections, Brigade created a ballot guide for its users[11] and ran it in San Francisco and Manchester, New Hampshire.

[14] This data was received from Google's Civic API with geographic information on 520,000 American elected officials.

[5] These three companies helped Brigade gain social media presence and find intelligent workers in the field.

[21] In 2014, Brigade Media received about $9.5 million in seed money from Sean Parker, Marc Benioff, and Ron Conway.

[22][23][24] The founders left the company at different times: Putorti in August 2015,[25] Capone in April 2016,[26] and Windon in March 2017.

[30] Barbara Simons, a computer scientist from IBM, asserted that all current forms of digital voting devices are hackable, and that the best unhackable option is paper.

He went on to group Brigade alongside "the 2020 Covid-19 Global Hackathon," as, "in the words of civic tech journalist and historian Micah Sifry, 'a big fat nothingburger.

[8] The company addressed the issues by filling in 12 additional positions and noting that women were also present in the organization.