Civic infrastructure
Society Speaks is civic technology you can deploy — not only a destination site. Run consultations, publish your own structured polls, and export analysis-ready data using the same deliberation engine behind our public programmes.
What you can run
Programmes
Multi-discussion campaigns with themes, phases, cohorts, stewards, visibility controls, and bulk export — ideal for citizen assemblies, policy consultations, and longitudinal engagement.
Programmes guide →Standalone discussions
Launch a focused poll or deliberation in minutes: seed statements, set public/unlisted/invite-only visibility, moderate submissions, and unlock ML clustering when participation thresholds are met.
Creating discussions →Publisher embeds & Partner API
Embed voting on articles and pages you choose. You define topics and statements — we do not scrape your newsroom. Automate creation from your CMS when ready.
For publishers →Organisation profiles
Attach programmes and discussions to your organisation so multiple editors can steward the same initiative with a public-facing identity.
Typical workflows
- Scoping — Define the decision or question, audience, and timeline. Draft 5–15 clear seed statements spanning perspectives.
- Launch — Create a programme or discussion, set visibility, invite stewards, share links or embed on your properties.
- Participation — Participants vote Agree / Disagree / Unsure and may add statements (moderated). Encourage voting before results where anchoring matters.
- Analysis — When enough votes exist, clustering reveals consensus, bridge ideas, and divisions. Export CSV for reporting.
- Action — Use bridge statements for coalition-building; use divisive statements to design deeper dialogue — not to declare winners.
Data & privacy
- Stewards receive aggregate vote distributions and anonymised exports — not public attribution of individual voters by name.
- Visibility settings (public, unlisted, invite-only, private) control discovery and access.
- Open-source codebase — audit how data is processed and stored.
Start building
Free to create discussions. Partner embeds and large programmes — talk to us if you need enterprise support.