We built the system we needed
Our founder, Louis Ingenthron, has been building software for nearly two decades... everything from VR games to medical simulations to scheduling systems. In 2026, he found a higher calling.
No Kings & Orlando 50501
2025, in the wake of Donald Trump's re-ascendance to the Presidency, and his resulting reign of terror among marginalized communities, Louis joined the No Kings mass protests to express his displeasure with the state and direction of the country. After the October 2025 protest, Louis decided that just showing up a few times a year wasn't enough, so he dove head-first into the activist group that put on the protests, the Orlando Florida chapter of 50501 (which stands for 50 states, 50 protests, 1 movement).
Tragedy: Good & Pretti
After joining 50501, Louis rapidly got involved with organizing, first joining the group's Safety & De-escalation team to help keep protests non-violent. Soon, though, the nation's eyes turned towards Minneapolis, as federal agents murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti in broad daylight. This, along with a series of related protests, led to a surge of new interest and recruits to the movement. With hundreds of new people eager to help out, Orlando 50501 didn't have the infrastructure to grow quickly enough to meet their demand. Existing off-the-shelf solutions were minimal, piecemeal, and insecure. Buying 5 different software solutions to organize a protest movement was clunky and expensive. Given federal threats to unconstitutionally declare peaceful protesters to be "domestic terrorists" and use the full force of the law to censor or imprison them, security and privacy were utmost concerns when evaluating potential new solutions.
Regroot is born
In March 2026, Louis started working on a comprehensive and secure platform that protected the privacy of its users. While initially designed as a simple event and project management app, the scope grew with the needs of the movement to encompass so much more. In June, Orlando 50501 started using Regroot for their public event schedule, and by August, they had fully migrated from other solutions. By the time planning started for October's No Kings protest, Regroot was the main software solution for the activist group. As new features like skill management and public requests were built based on the needs of the larger group, they were seamlessly integrated into the movement, helping everyone within to stay aligned.
Battle-Tested for Activists and Charities
Orlando 50501 is a highly-decentralized and democratized group of activists with one goal: stop fascism in America. With their distributed power structure, keeping everyone in leadership on the same page, much less the larger group, can be a struggle. Regroot was specifically designed to help solve this problem, giving everyone a shared space to collaborate, track progress, volunteer for tasks and events, and keep in touch. Now, it's being released to the entire nation to help other groups achieve the same level of coordination we did in Orlando.
