Your Public Engagement Software Toolkit

An all-in-one public engagement solution. Discover the difference between engagement vs. participation with public engagement software that reaches more residents- and drives them to engage project-over-project.

PublicInput is built to support every step of the public engagement process.

  • Make public engagement decisions with confidence that you are reaching the broader community
  • Defend your public engagement decisions by showing who you reached, where, and what they said
  • Increase staff efficiency with a public engagement software design for your process
  • Build public trust over time with a CRM for government that makes it easier than ever to target residents who need to hear from you most and re-engage residents over time, project-over-project

Reach beyond the usual voices to increase civic participation

  • Efficiently strategize public engagement on day one with census tract data on a project area map. Residents who have engaged are visualized on the same map tell a clear community story of what’s working and where to fill in gaps.
  • Seamlessly integrate with targeted social media advertising to reach residents online.
  • Increase certainty that you are reaching critical stakeholders with a CRM for government that segments by geography, demography, and previous project participation
  • Unlock equitable public participation with multilingual capabilities across project websites, email, and text messages

See how equity mapping works with this product highlight video

An interactive map tool for government staff to better understand their community, strategize, and defend their decisions.

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Quickly deploy public engagement project and online civic participation hubs

  • Create drag-and-drop public engagement websites in minutes
  • Educate residents as they participate with videos, interactive maps, and dynamic questions- including budget allocation and comment-on-map questions
  • Designed for maximum public participation and ease, all sites are mobile-friendly and mobile-first
  • All sites include built-in support for events, public meeting agendas, and 15 different civic engagement question formats

Leverage best-in-class data analytics and reporting.

Unify all public engagement data across online surveys, social media, meeting transcripts, text messaging, and even paper surveys into one central dashboard. Automatic reports and comment analysis can be shared with just a couple clicks with staff, residents, and other key stakeholders.

Close the feedback loop to increase public engagement over time

Capture participant contact information and follow up. Showing residents that they have been heard is the best way to increase public trust.

PublicInput vs. MailChimp

The right public engagement software should make it easy to close the feedback loop with residents who have already engaged— while also collecting contact information from residents as they participate. See how PublicInput stacks up against MailChimp.

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Launch safe, accessible virtual & hybrid public meetings

Virtual public meetings are proven to increase public participation. With an online townhall software built for equity and access, PublicInput empowers government staff with live multi-lingual closed captioning, online agenda management, and automatic transcriptions. No download required or need for high-speed Internet.

PublicInput also brings virtual tactics to your in-person meetings with live, anonymous polling and voting on prioritizing top agenda items.

See how virtual public meetings are changing online civic engagement

By creating a virtual town hall that didn’t require high-speed Internet access, Harris County Flood Control District engaged 2,800 residents and gained 2,300 new email subscribers— including those living in rural areas. Read the case study >

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Your Public Engagement Partner

As active collaborators, we are constantly evolving our public engagement software to meets the needs of government staff and the consultants who work with them.  

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Engage using standard survey question formats that you’re used to with consumer survey tools. From the single and multi-select, to Likert, slider, and text input formats, you’ve got the basics covered.