Run live online deliberations at scale

Every PSi account comes with an Account Owner and up to ten Facilitators. This means your whole team can help each other to plan and run public deliberations — without sharing logins or losing track of changes.

It makes very large sessions very easy to manage.

Your platform carries your identity. Add your logo, choose your organisation's colours, and set a custom link such as join.psi.tech/YourCouncil.

This helps participants trust the process and recognise that the discussion is yours.

The platform uses high-contrast colours, supports screen readers, and works fully with keyboard navigation. All text is clear and simple, and the whole experience is optimised for mobile browsers.

This means more people can take part confidently — including participants who use assistive technologies or have visual, motor, or cognitive access needs.

Every discussion has its own dedicated home page. This is where participants can read what the topic is, why you're running the conversation, who's involved, and how their input will be used.

It helps people arrive informed and confident.

You can upload documents, reports, or web links to the discussion page so participants can explore background information before they join.

This helps create a more level, informed discussion.

You can add short entry and exit surveys. Entry surveys help you understand who is taking part and allow you to explore the data to understand how different groups feel about the topic.

Exit surveys help you capture final reflections or gather any extra insights you need. All survey data is linked safely to the discussion.

PSi discussions are built around ideas. You can set the ideas yourself — for example, options from earlier research — or you can invite participants to submit ideas in advance.

Either way, PSi turns these ideas into the structure of the conversation.

You can invite participants by sharing a simple link — just like any online meeting — or by adding their contact details and sending email invitations and discussion updates directly from PSi.

Hosts can decide how people access the discussion. You can require participants to sign in with an account, or allow Guest Mode, where people join quickly by choosing a username.

This is helpful when you want to make participation as open and easy as possible, or when you want stronger verification.

You can allow early entry so participants can complete onboarding steps — like surveys or idea submission — ahead of time.

You can also decide whether late entry is allowed once the discussion starts. This gives you full control over how the session flows.

You can make participation anonymous. You will still see who has joined the session, but participants only see each other as 'User 1,' 'User 2,' and so on.

This can help create a safer space, especially for sensitive or political topics.

PSi flags harmful or inappropriate language, such as swearing, threats, or references to self-harm. If something is flagged, the Host gets an alert and can enter the room to check everything is okay.

Participants can also flag others if someone is being disrespectful or disruptive. Hosts can remove anyone who breaks the rules. This helps every group feel supported and keeps discussions fair and safe.

After the discussion, participants can signal which ideas they support. You can pick the method that fits your project:

One-vote — each person chooses their top idea.

Distributed voting — people divide several votes across ideas.

Matrix assessment — participants score ideas across up to three criteria (e.g., impact, cost, or sustainability).

All results are captured automatically and shown clearly in the insights.

PSi uses a patent-protected method for running large-scale conversations. Instead of one huge room, the system connects many small groups and blends their input in real time.

This means that even when hundreds of people join, the conversation still moves quickly, and shared conclusions begin to form in well under an hour.

This makes it possible for public bodies to gather high-quality insights at a scale and speed that would normally take weeks.