Launched by executive order, the site aggregates information from some 29,000 American public sites and responds in everyday language, based on Google and xAI models.
Donald Trump has launched America.gov executive order, presented as a "unified digital gateway" to the federal government for anyone seeking information or a public service in the United States. The site opens on a simple search bar, where you can ask to reserve a campsite in a national park as well as to obtain a passport for your child or have your Social Security card redone.
Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb and now design director of American public services, said that the system is based on two business models: Gemini, from Google, and Grok, from xAI. The administration says it has gathered the content of about 29,000 government sites in a single database, the idea being to allow a question formulated in ordinary language rather than browsing from agency to agency.
The choice to entrust the state's interface to two competing private providers, without a public model, is itself a public policy decision — and sets a precedent that other jurisdictions will look at closely.
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