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Polis Flow
A flow combining traditional survey and Pol.is engagement. Ideal for a clear assessment of connections between opinions and the demography behind.
Read more (page coming soon)Comhairle
Comhairle makes it easy for policymakers to design and execute flexible participation workflows.
Comhairle incorporates the best open-source tools available.
Empowers facilitators to engage with their audiences more easily.
Enables participants to engage meaningfully in the policy-making process.
Easily procure tools to enhance consultation efforts.
Gives direct access to consultation data and provides powerful analysis.
Pick an existing workflow or build your own. Browse step options — learning material, online video calls, world-café discussions, citizen assemblies — then launch when it suits your objectives.
Invite participants through every channel that reaches them: email, shareable links, QR codes, event pages and word of mouth.
Bring the conversation to life. Participants share their views and statements while opinions cluster into a living map of where your community stands.
Surface consensus and the bridges between groups. Zoom out to read the themes, then zoom in on the recommendations that matter most.
Scroll through reports, tables and charts, then export and share the results with every stakeholder in a single click.
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A flow combining traditional survey and Pol.is engagement. Ideal for a clear assessment of connections between opinions and the demography behind.
Read more (page coming soon)In-person workshop with AI-assisted sense making on the site and after the event. Ideal for facilitators aiming to support quality sense-making with the participants and also deliver a detailed report for decision makers.
Read more (page coming soon)A flow for scaling deliberation, starting with an online poll, followed by an in-person workshop. Ideal for deliberation of broad topics and empowering agenda setting.
Read more (page coming soon)A flow that pays extra effort on onboarding. Including an elicitation bot that helps individual participants learn about the topic, shape their views and perspectives before entering a Polis survey. Participants can then move to a reflective space after encountering other debaters’ views.
Read more (page coming soon)“We know trust in government is affected by how well we listen to people and act on what they say. Working with CrownShy on the Comhairle platform helps us to shape some of those early conversations that matter in ways that mean policies are more effective.”
“Quality participation has told us the Scottish public want to be included in weighing specific reuse of data and applications of AI across public services. Thanks to CrownShy’s wealth of experience in civic tech and deliberative democracy, Comhairle promises a path to using quality participation across the full diversity of our public’s needs.”