Society Speaks
Open-source civic platform for voting on policy statements and revealing consensus, bridge ideas, and divisions via machine learning
The product is an open-source civic deliberation platform that structures public judgment on policy statements to show where participants agree, where they divide, and which ideas bridge opposing groups, addressing fragmented online debate that obscures actual alignment. It serves general consumers participating in public discussions, and organizations including publishers, nonprofits, and government agencies that run consultations. It is delivered as a SaaS community platform with a free tier, no ads or tracking, supported by donations and subscriptions, with machine learning that groups participants by voting patterns rather than labels.
Key features
- Vote on policy statements (Agree/Disagree/Unsure)
- Big Questions Journey across 8 themes
- Daily Question voting
- Daily Brief news curation
- Tradeoffs five-minute game
- ML grouping by voting patterns
- Consensus detection across groups
- Bridge idea identification
- Genuine division surfacing
- Anonymous participation option
- Publisher embeds
- Host consultations and programmes
- Aggregate results export (CSV/JSON)
- 140+ curated news sources
- 11,300+ discussions
- No social media activity within the last 30 days
- Blog
- Newsletter
- Partner program
- Marketplace
- Community
- API
- Consumers general
- Government public sector
- Nonprofits ngos