Why Choose 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.
How It Works
Choose Workflows
Pick an existing workflow, duplicate a past one, or create a new one.
Design Steps
Design the content, order and number of steps that suits the consultation objectives.
Pick suitable tools
Use default tools or customise to more suitable ones to ensure an efficient and engaging process.
Launch
Launch the consultation and share with relevant audiences.
Collect inputs
Collect inputs of a given topic through step by step participation flow.
Engagement management
Facilitate conversations, nudge input, provide guidance as conversation goes.
What Our Users Say
"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"
— Doreen Grove, Head of Open Government, Scottish Government
"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."
— Tom Wilkinson, Chief Data Officer, Scottish Government