Our services
CrownShy designs and implements end-to-end workflows for large scale sense-making.
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Democratic institutions
Workflows: across multiple open source deliberative tools including demographic surveys up front, with customizable branding and data sovereignty.
Facilitators & Organizers
Process design: co-designing and co-piloting augmented facilitation tools and methods to deepen the agency of your membership individually and as a group.
Representatives
In-person + online: bringing far-flung kitchen table conversations to matter at a larger scale, and providing aggregate public opinion to inform distributed smaller conversations.
* Available upon request: tools and methods for deliberative workflows consisting of transparent and auditable algorithms able to reach 1-10 thousand people where all the content is contributed by humans for this specific purpose and all the meaning is made by humans working toward the same purpose. These workflows are more labor intensive but we can help you reach your goals of without the use of AI or Large Language Models.
The Team
Meet the Partners in Change
We are your partner invested in your success.
CrownShy is based in the United Kingdom and the United States with a global team of recognized leaders in the domains of deliberative democracy (Polis, Talk To The City, PDIS, and Citizens’ Assemblies), open source collective intelligence and participatory knowledge production (Zooniverse, PublicLab), and machine learning. We are your partners in navigating change, working side-by-side to create solutions that amplify all voices and build stronger democracies.
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