Run the outreach, see what people actually said, and publish the results — without a spreadsheet, a stats package or a designer in between.
Everyone drafts at once and sees each other’s changes as they happen — no more emailing “final_v4” around the office. Comments sit on the question they’re about, so getting sign-off stops being a chain of attachments.
viewshed.app/northgateCopy linkOne survey, every channel: a link, an email to your stakeholder list, a printed QR poster for the community center, a tablet at the open house, a clipboard on Main Street. Translations go out with the survey, not weeks after it.
Public engagement is never just one web form. It is a tablet at an open house, a flyer at the library, a clipboard on a Saturday, and a results page the client refreshes on Monday. All of it is one survey and one set of numbers.
Multiple choice, check all that apply, dropdown, yes or no, true or false, rank in order of preference
Rating out of five, scale of ten, stars, emoji, would-recommend score, and a grid for rating several things at once
Mark up a photo or a real map, compare two renderings, before and after, draw, sign, name a place, link a file or photo
Short answers, long answers, formatted text, email, phone, number, date, time
Set up an event, give each tablet its own link, and everything collected that day is labeled with where it came from. “How did the market go?” stops being a question you answer by hand.All of this is on the free plan.
When someone finishes, the tablet says thank you, counts down, and resets itself for the next person. Nobody has to lean in and tap anything. If they want another minute to read, there’s a button for that.
Answers are kept safely on the device and sent the moment you’re back online. Nobody’s afternoon is lost to a dead bar of reception.
Open one page on a laptop, plug it into the projector, and the room watches the results update as people answer. Set it to show only this event, so what’s on the screen is the people actually in the room — not everyone who has ever filled in the survey.
Some people will always fill in a form on a table. Type those in afterwards, or paste a whole spreadsheet of them, and they join the same numbers as everyone else — attributed to the event they came from.
Delete an event by mistake and the answers survive it. They simply stop being labeled with that day — because the answers are the point, and the label is just filing.
You will never have the hours to sit down with everyone who wants to be heard. The Project Ambassador does — at nine at night, in whatever language they speak, one person at a time. Everything it hears is filed as answers to your survey, exactly like a form.
Send someone a link and the Ambassador sits down with them — your survey, one question at a time, in their own words, at whatever hour suits them. It takes a free-form answer and finds the option that matches, checking with them when it’s ambiguous. Twenty interviews you had no time to run, all in the same numbers as the survey.
A listening session it ran at 11pm counts the same as one you ran in a hall. And it tells people plainly that it’s an AI — nobody is tricked into talking to a machine.
Most tools hand you a spreadsheet and a lost weekend. Here every answer is filed the moment it arrives, ready to count. Nobody has to decide what goes in which column, and the sentence somebody typed in the “anything else?” box is kept exactly as they wrote it.
The doorstep chat, the call with the neighborhood association, the forty minutes with a business owner — normally those sit in a folder nobody counts, and the report ends up saying “we also heard anecdotally that…”. Upload them and every one is read against your survey, question by question, and counted.
Upload the notes from a Teams call or the writeup from the community meeting, and every one is read against your survey question by question. Somebody who never touched a form ends up answering it — each answer traced to the sentence they said it in. Forty minutes of conversation turns into rows you can count in about a minute.
However someone reached you, their answer ends up in the same shape. Nobody has to reconcile a spreadsheet against a folder of notes at the end.
Every one traces back to the sentence it came from, and you can click through to read it in context.
The survey gives you the count. The conversations tell you whether people agree with it, push back on it, or raise something you never thought to ask. All of it sits on one page, and all of it goes in the report — no separate appendix of “qualitative feedback” nobody reads.
Nothing is invented. Every line traces back to a sentence somebody actually said, and you can click through to read it in context. It all comes down in the spreadsheet alongside the survey responses.
Ask “what did people who walk think?” and get the answer in a click — no formulas, no pivot tables, no exporting anything. And before you write it up, Viewshed tells you plainly which groups you haven’t heard enough from.
Two groups are under-represented. Send them a reminder before you write this up?
The charts, the report and the public results page are all built here, straight from the answers — no designer, no rebuilding it in slides. Print a poster for the library, and email the findings back to the people who took part: the part every engagement promises and most skip.
The same Ambassador that ran your interviews now sits on the published results page and answers the public’s questions — using only what you actually published, and showing which section the answer came from. It cannot invent anything, and it says so plainly when the answer isn’t there.
Every conversation is kept, and the questions that keep coming up are gathered for you — which is usually the agenda for the next round. The same three questions stop filling your inbox for a year.
If somebody is going to ask you what the community said — and expect evidence behind the answer — this was built for you.
Each engagement is kept separate from the others. Invite a client into theirs and only theirs — they never see the rest of your work.
The free plan is a real project, not a demo: unlimited surveys, unlimited responses, unlimited volunteers. A group running one project a year should never have to pay for it.
Everyone gets the access their job needs, there’s a record of who changed what, and the public results page is something you can put in front of a city council without rebuilding it in slides.
What you collect stays yours. If someone asks you to remove their answers it takes one click, and you can read every result on screen whether you pay us or not.
General-purpose survey tools stop at the download. Everything after that — the tidying, the charts, the report, the public page — happens here, on the same answers.
In map-first engagement tools the map is the survey. Here it is one question type among 29 — and it works on a photo or a rendering too, not just a map. You can ask people to drop a pin and rate a proposal and tell you why, in one survey, and read it as one story.
Invite every colleague, council member and volunteer at no cost, and collect as many responses as come. You pay for the number of projects you have running — nothing else.
We don’t charge per person or per response. Surveys, answers, colleagues and public pages are unlimited on every plan, free included. The only thing we count is how many projects you have running at once.
A real project, not a demo.
Several projects at once.
A whole agency or firm.
Prices in USD. Finished a project? Close it and the next one takes its place — nothing is deleted, and re-opening it is one click.