Open Floor
Every member can raise their own idea — and have it heard.
A survey asks people to rate the questions someone already wrote. Open Floor lets them raise what they actually want to raise, in their own words. The ideas are drawn together and a good idea is kept whole — so a strong idea from a few people isn't lost or averaged away.
Good for: finding out what your members think, when nobody has written the questions for them.
A survey asks your members to rate questions someone else wrote. Open Floor lets them raise their own, in their own words, argue them out with each other, and see the whole lot drawn together.
It is more evidence-based because nothing is averaged away. Contributions are grouped under the tags your members chose for themselves, and the software cannot score them, rank them, or turn them into a mood reading. Those aggregates are barred in the code: a summary that produced one would fail its own check and never be saved. A sharp idea held by three people arrives whole, with the objections to it still attached.
The grouping is where you would expect a machine to make the call. It doesn't — it follows your members' own tags, and nothing else. If we add a model here later, the most it will be permitted to do is suggest a name for a group; the contributions underneath stay exactly as written, and they are always shown. Reading them, and deciding what to do, stays with you.
What it does
A survey tells you how people feel about the questions you chose. Open Floor is the other half — a place where members raise the ideas, concerns and fixes that never fit a tick-box, and where the good ones are kept whole.
Ideas in their own words
Members raise what matters to them — not a rating on a scale someone else designed. Everyone can start a thread, not just the people who wrote the survey.
The good idea is kept whole
Members read each other's ideas and can endorse them or raise an objection. A strong idea from a small group is kept and credited, never blended into a single average that hides it.
Everyone sees the result
The summary goes back to the whole group, not just a private report for the people in charge. Members can see their voice was part of it.
Safe to speak up
You choose whether each contribution shows your name or not. Leaders see the summary — not a way to track who said what.
Small groups are protected, and summaries can be sealed
Where a group is too small to stay anonymous, its results are held back. A summary can be sealed as a signed, timestamped record, and a ripe floor can lead into a Deliberation Village session when the group is ready to decide.
Who it's for
Any group that wants to hear from its own people — a club, a marae, a parish, a workplace, a member association. It works whether there are a dozen of you or a few thousand.
Pricing
Open Floor is available on request. Tell us where you would like it set up and we will come back to you.
Ask for Open Floor
Tell us where you would like Open Floor set up. It takes an email, and there is nothing to sign.