Akashic
The political record of every place.
Place pages for every state, county, congressional district, and metro, with election records reaching back to 1788. Draw your own boundary with Create a Place and read its history.
Election data · Custom AI
The Akashic Records were a legend. Ours are sourced.
Akashic Intelligence is a data and AI company built on one belief: the answers are already in the record. We find them, trace them to their source, and put them to work in AI built around how you operate, so your decisions stand on evidence instead of guesswork.
Akashic Intelligence
The record
The American electorate, in one line.
155.2 million
votes cast for president in 2024, up from 5.7 million in 1868
View the data
| Election | Votes cast |
|---|---|
| 1868 | 5,745,520 |
| 1872 | 6,484,288 |
| 1876 | 8,413,489 |
| 1880 | 9,231,221 |
| 1884 | 10,075,781 |
| 1888 | 11,403,448 |
| 1892 | 12,186,940 |
| 1896 | 13,968,285 |
| 1900 | 14,018,745 |
| 1904 | 13,607,119 |
| 1908 | 14,872,288 |
| 1912 | 15,079,288 |
| 1916 | 18,628,220 |
| 1920 | 26,988,098 |
| 1924 | 29,230,730 |
| 1928 | 37,041,331 |
| 1932 | 39,927,676 |
| 1936 | 45,900,511 |
| 1940 | 49,801,700 |
| 1944 | 48,295,468 |
| 1948 | 49,074,528 |
| 1952 | 61,284,739 |
| 1956 | 61,750,202 |
| 1960 | 68,377,525 |
| 1964 | 70,229,097 |
| 1968 | 72,691,420 |
| 1972 | 77,187,541 |
| 1976 | 80,862,864 |
| 1980 | 85,783,527 |
| 1984 | 91,886,076 |
| 1988 | 90,889,655 |
| 1992 | 103,674,634 |
| 1996 | 95,497,466 |
| 2000 | 105,085,969 |
| 2004 | 121,980,348 |
| 2008 | 131,140,420 |
| 2012 | 128,887,579 |
| 2016 | 137,080,110 |
| 2020 | 158,429,631 |
| 2024 | 155,238,302 |
AI services
AI built on your record.
Every organization keeps a ledger of how it really works: the tasks it repeats, the judgment calls, the niche knowledge no template captures. We map it first, then build the agents, pipelines, and training that fit.
Akashic
A reference atlas for American elections.
Akashic puts election results where they happened, beside the places and people behind them. It is public, sourced, and built to the standard of a reference work.
Place pages
A page for every place.
States, counties, congressional districts, and metros, each with its election history, its shifts, and its comparisons in one view. Open to everyone.
Create a Place
Draw any boundary.
Outline a neighborhood, a media market, or a set of precincts, and Akashic rebuilds its results from census-block data for elections with precinct-level returns.
Custom builds
Built to your specification.
Custom place sets, datasets, and embeds for your organization, publication, or product.
Place agents Coming soon
An agent for every place you follow.
Custom AI agents grounded in a place's full record, answering questions about it in plain language.
Services
Custom AI, starting with how you work.
Most AI projects start with a tool. Ours start with onboarding: a detailed map of your niche and the workflows your team repeats. Then we build what that map calls for.
Onboarding & workflow discovery
We learn your niche, document the work you repeat, and rank what is worth automating.
Custom AI agents
Agents that take on defined, repeated work, built to your process and your data.
Data pipelines & dashboards
Your data collected, cleaned, and kept current, with dashboards built around the decisions you make.
Team AI training
Practical training built on your own workflows, so your team keeps the gains.
Who we work with
Built for organizations that run on specifics.
Campaigns and political organizations
Research, targeting support, and reporting grounded in the electoral record.
Healthcare organizations and hospitals
Reporting, planning, and administrative workflows made faster and easier to review.
Small and mid-size businesses
The repeated work that eats the week, handled by systems built for your business.
Nonprofits and government
Grant, program, and public reporting done in fewer hours, with clearer sources.
Principles
How we work.
Accuracy you can trace.
Every figure carries its year and its source. If we can't source it, we don't publish it.
Method in the open.
We show how a result was produced, so you can check it, question it, and build on it.
Say what's plain.
Thinking differently often means looking straight at the data and saying what it plainly shows, when no one else will.
The name
Named for a record of everything.
The Akashic Records describe a complete ledger of everything that has ever happened: every event, every word, every choice. In some tellings, part of it lies in a hall beneath the sands at Giza.
The line between science and what used to be called magic is thinner than it looks. For most of history, astronomy and astrology were one discipline, and chemistry grew out of alchemy. Kepler cast horoscopes; Newton filled notebooks with alchemy. Both began with the same impulse we work from: find the pattern in the record, then read it plainly.
We make no claim to a cosmic ledger. We build the closest thing the evidence allows: records that are complete where the sources are complete, honest where they are not, and readable by anyone who needs them. It's why an election atlas and an AI astrologer belong to the same company.
Founder
Before the data, there were doors.
I spent years in the field, listening to how places decide. Most of it never shows up in a topline.
Akashic began as a way to keep that record. Now I help businesses here in Springfield read the record inside their own work, and put it to use.
Kenton Tilford
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What does your record say?
Tell us about the place you're studying or the work your team repeats. A discovery call is the first step.