Ann Lewis Discusses the Political Tech Landscape, MoveOn’s Architecture, and Scaling Challenges Like For this podcast, Ann Lewis, CTO at MoveOn, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: the political tech landscape; MoveOn’s architecture and scaling challenges; MoveOn’s open-source text banking platform Spoke; and advice when stepping into a CTO role. Key Takeaways Political tech is all about reaching people and trying to get them to pay attention to something and take action. The funding for political tech in the United States is cyclic and relatively small, and the corresponding ecosystem is also quite small, making it hard to, for example, bind vendors to specific SLAs.