Trump Unveils America.gov as SI-Powered ‘Front Door’ to Federal Government

President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched America.gov, an SI-powered website the White House billed as a single digital front door to federal information and services, and signed an executive order directing agencies to integrate their public-facing systems with the new platform. (Artificial Intelligence has been renamed by the administration as Super Intelligence (SI))

The site, developed by the National Design Studio under U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, an Airbnb co-founder, is live and currently answers questions in plain language by drawing from official government sources across roughly 29,000 federal websites. 

Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils https://t.co/tMEB6EUmxg, the new online home for the United States of America pic.twitter.com/Mlllz44UaQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 29, 2026

Users type requests the way they would into Grok, Gemini, or ChatGPT and receive sourced responses with links to original pages. No account is required for basic queries. The administration says the site is free, carries no ads, and is designed to protect privacy. 

“Anyone who has used Grok or Gemini or ChatGPT will understand instantly how to use America.gov,” Trump said at the launch event at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. He called it “one of the most revolutionary product launches of all time” and “a restoration of America’s founding promise.” 

“With America.gov, the federal government no longer stands in your way, and it stands only at your service,” Trump said. He argued Americans spend more than 10 billion hours a year on government paperwork. “We believe that your time matters.” 

“Whether you’re a scout leader who wants to reserve a campsite at a national park, a senior citizen trying to choose a Medicare plan, or an American veteran trying to get the benefits that you’ve earned and so justly deserve, America.gov will be there to help,” he added.

The executive order, titled “Streamlining Access to Government Services Through America.gov,” describes the site as “a secure, intelligent, and service-oriented point of entry.” It states America.gov “will enable the Federal Government to do its own paperwork so that the American people may get on with their lives.” 

Covered services generally include public-facing online programs serving more than 100,000 users a year; IRS tax filing and certain national-security systems are excluded. Agencies must identify covered services, integrate them, and use Login.gov for authentication. The Office of Management and Budget is to issue implementation guidance within 90 days. 

Gebbia, who leads the National Design Studio created last year under Trump’s “America by Design” initiative, told the audience the platform uses an “extraordinary use of AI designed to improve your life” and is trained on official government sources. He told CNBC the chatbot is powered by Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok. 

Full transactional features—completing forms, uploading documents, tracking applications such as passport renewals or Medicare enrollment, and handling multi-agency updates like a legal name change—are planned for 2027. 

Cabinet officials demonstrated hypothetical uses. Secretary of State Marco Rubio showed a future flow for passport applications, including photo upload and status tracking.

“No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line, no middleman that you’re paying to do something that should be available to you,” Rubio said. “You tell America.gov what you’re trying to do and it walks you through every single step.”

Other presentations covered Medicare enrollment, job applications, disaster relief, and veterans benefits. The White House noted related design work already completed on sites such as TrumpRx.gov. 

Official accounts amplified the rollout throughout the day. 

Rapid Response 47 posted video of Gebbia unveiling the site as “the new online home for the United States of America.” The White House account called it “a new national front door to the federal government” and “one of the most revolutionary product launches in history.” 

Trump also tied the platform to voter ID and citizenship documentation debates, saying proof of eligibility would become simpler “in just one swipe.” 

Edward Coristine, who has worked with the National Design Studio, posted after the announcement: “Now is the time to serve your country. Take the way things used to be done and grind it under your heel. A new era is dawning of revolutionizing how America can serve its people,” along with a jobs email for the studio.

Now is the time to serve your country. Take the way things used to be done and grind it under your heel. A new era is dawning of revolutionizing how America can serve its people.

jobs@ndstudio.gov https://t.co/sjWwzfRhxj

— Edward Coristine (@as400495) September 29, 2026

The launch continues the administration’s push to apply private-sector design and AI to government interfaces after years of fragmented, outdated agency sites. 

Phase 1 is the conversational search layer available now. Phase 2, beginning in 2027, is intended to let users complete and track many transactions without hopping between agency portals.If the 2027 transaction layer works as advertised, America.gov would replace a lot of the duplicate federal website maze—Social Security, State Department, Medicare, veterans services, and other high-volume programs—rather than sending people from one agency portal to another. 

Officials have described a future in which a name change, passport, or benefit enrollment can be started and tracked in one place instead of a stack of forms and office visits. This is the federal answer to what people hate about brick-and-mortar lines. It does not, however, replace state DMVs. Driver’s licenses, vehicle titles, and most REAL ID work remain state functions. America.gov is explicitly a front door to the federal government. Any similar approach to state agency visits would require states to copy the model, not a White House order. 

For Californians, the platform covers the federal half of the paperwork grind—Social Security, passports, Medicare, veterans services, federal jobs, and disaster aid—on top of the state’s own complex systems, including the DMV. 

Whether the new site actually cuts trips and duplicate agencies will depend on how fast federal departments integrate, whether the AI stays grounded in official sources, and whether Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act ever becomes law. That bill, introduced last week with Rep. Greg Casar, would permanently ban systems defined as artificial superintelligence and pause development of advanced frontier models until a new Department of Artificial Intelligence writes safety rules and approves deployment. 

Among the first House Democrats to sign on were California’s Rep. Ro Khanna and Arizona Reps. Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva.

The White House is already calling the America.gov stack “super intelligence” and running it on Gemini and Grok. The Sanders-Casar text is not a blanket ban on every government chatbot, but if enacted as written it could freeze the models behind the site and subject them to a new federal approval process.