Ideation

Tap into the knowledge of your community. Ideation enables you to:

  • Crowdsource ideas, thoughts, and comments
  • Customize the input form
  • Analyze and summarize with AI

Our Ideation feature is a versatile and powerful tool with endless possibilities. Leverage the collective wisdom and lived experiences of your community to solve pressing challenges, gather forward-thinking ideas, or even crowdsource content for contests and initiatives.

This bottom-up participation method empowers residents to shape policies and initiatives directly, leveraging their unique position to identify and address gaps in current policies, fostering a more inclusive and responsive democratic process. Go Vocal offers everything to set you up for success. From an intuitive space for residents to propose, support, and discuss initiatives to a strong back-end that gives you valuable insights into what truly matters to your community.

Why our Ideation feature is the best for crowdsourcing

  • Versatile and adaptable hub: Customize the platform to meet your specific goals — whether you're creating idea walls, running image upload contests, or hosting any other type of engagement activity.
  • Intuitive input form builder: Easily design forms to gather the exact information you need, from simple text fields to complex, multi-layered inputs.
  • Vibrant community interaction: Encourage participation with features like commenting, liking, and disliking.
  • Statuses and official updates: Keep participants informed about how their input is used, promoting transparency and trust.
  • Full access and permissions control: Customize who can post ideas, comment, or participate, ensuring a secure and organized experience.
  • Human intelligence meets AI: Let our AI-powered input analysis tool Sensemaking help you process and summarize key insights.

See Ideation in action

Dive into Vocal Point, our interactive demo platform, to see how Ideation can empower your community. Submit ideas, comment on contributions, and experience collective problem-solving in action.

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The addition of these online input opportunities transformed Engage Allen from an information board into a true engagement space and allowed us to hear from far more people than just those who were able to attend in-person meetings.

Erik Waldbauer
Marketing Specialist, City of Allen, TX

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