What happens when 50,000 people share their perspectives on an issue?
On social media, algorithms amplify conflict — favoring the loudest voices, burying nuance, and deepening divides. In community engagement, we have the opportunity to do something radically different.
Perspectives marks a turning point: a new way to make sense of large-scale conversations without losing the human element. Alongside it, we’re shipping updates that make your projects more efficient, inclusive, and insightful.
Here's what's new!
1. Perspectives
(Coming soon, available to all license plans)
Perspectives uses AI to automatically organize thousands of contributions into meaningful themes and sub-themes. They surface representative voices from each cluster, and revealing shared values and common ground across apparent divides.
Unlike social media algorithms that promote viral content, Perspectives reveals the full spectrum of community input. It’s not just about statistics or top comments, it’s about real people's stories from across the spectrum of opinion — the parent worried about school safety, the business owner concerned about economic impact, the student advocating for change. This is bridge-building at scale — helping community members understand why people feel the way they do, not just what they think.
From thousands of voices to clear themes and diverse lived experiences — automatically. It's democracy at scale, designed for understanding.
2. Optional & Deferred Registration
(Available to all license plans now)
Registration builds healthy communities, but requiring it upfront can create unnecessary friction at the moment someone's ready to share their perspective. With Optional & Deferred Registration, community members can now contribute to surveys, ideation, and proposal projects immediately — without signing up first. Registration appears as an invitation after they've already engaged, when they see the value of staying connected.
The result? Lower barriers to initial participation, stronger community connections over time. You still capture the essential data — just at the moment it makes most sense.
Participation without barriers
3. Phase Dashboards
(Available to all license plans now)
Data tracking and making sense of your consultation outcomes can be an overwhelming task, but Phase Dashboards are here to help. They give you a real-time view of your project’s performance — engagement, participation trends, representativeness, and key metrics — so you can make faster, better informed decisions.
Forget about digging through spreadsheets and focus on what matters: engaging your community and making data-driven decisions.
The right metrics at every phase, instantly available.
See what’s new
Want to increase participation and clarity in your projects?
Join our live session with Wietse, our CEO, to discover how our new features help more people join and stay part of the conversation.
