- To
- Subject
Here’s your link. Share it however you like; if you change the letter later, make a new link and share that one instead, since the old one will still carry the old letter.
Send it from your own email
Each button opens a new email in your own account with the letter, the addresses and the subject already filled in. You can change anything you like there, or add a few lines of your own, and nothing is sent until you press send.
Add your name to the letter first, where it’s highlighted at the bottom.
Your email should now be open with the letter in it, ready for you to look over and send. If nothing opened, try one of the other buttons, or copy the pieces below into a new email yourself.
Want to send a letter like this about something else?
This page uses Google Analytics to count visits and how many times the Make the link button is clicked. Nothing you type here, and nothing in the letter, is shared with Google.
This page uses Google Analytics to count visits and how many times the Make the link button is clicked. Nothing you type here, and nothing in the letter, is shared with Google.
Help people speak up together
Undersigned makes it easier to organize a group of people around a shared concern. Write a letter, add the email addresses of the people who need to hear from you, and share a link. Everyone who opens it can send the same letter from their own email, with the option to add a few words of their own.
You do the organizing. Everyone else just has to click a button.
Write a letter to share
Start by deciding who you're writing to and who should receive the letter. Then write your message and preview what people will see before you share the link.
See an example letter (opens in a new tab)
Here’s your link. Share it however you like; if you change the letter later, make a new link and share that one instead, since the old one will still carry the old letter.
An example letter
Copy as much or as little of this as you like into your own letter. The parts in [square brackets] are for you to replace with your own words.
- To
- Subject
Close this tab when you’re done. Your own letter is still waiting in
the original tab.
About Undersigned
Undersigned is a lightweight app for community advocacy that helps people send individual letters about a shared concern.
It began with a question: How might we use technology to simplify community action?
The idea came from a group of seniors who wanted to speak up about changes in their community. Some were comfortable with technology; others struggled with the mechanics of copying and pasting text, adding email addresses, and sending messages to multiple recipients. I wanted to make participation easier without asking anyone to learn another tool.
How it works
One person writes a letter, adds the email addresses of the people who need to receive it, and shares a link. Everyone who opens the link can send the same letter to the same recipients from their own email, with the option to personalize it before sending.
The person who creates the link does the heavy lifting. Everyone else just needs to click a button.
Built to do less
There's no account to create, no text or addresses to copy and paste, and no petition to sign when what you want to do is send a letter.
Each message comes directly from the person sending it, allowing a group to communicate a shared position without losing the individual voices behind it. And because the letter travels in the link, there’s no need to store letter content on a server.
I collect only limited usage analytics to show the number of page visits and number of clicks to the Make the link button. Neither the letter itself nor any emails are collected through those analytics.
Your letter and recipient addresses are carried in the link itself, rather than stored on a server. Anyone with the link can see those details, so share it only with people you trust.
Who is it for?
Undersigned began with seniors, but the idea applies anywhere people want to speak up together: residents responding to a proposed neighbourhood change, parents contacting a school board, community members writing to elected representatives, or members of an organization contacting its board.
These groups don’t necessarily need a campaign platform. They need a straightforward way to help people take the same action.
Undersigned turns shared concern into individual action.
Who made it
I’m Jessica Del Grande, a growth and digital marketer with a background in marketing, UX, and making complicated things easier to use. I built Undersigned with Claude, and am hosting it on Netlify. I believe technology should remove barriers, not create new ones.
You can learn more about my work on jessicadelgrande.com or find me on LinkedIn.