Where Democracy Becomes a Practice

Polity Cooperative is a collectively governed digital democracy platform that embeds participation in community and organizational decision-making.

What Polity Offers

Polity connects community insight and institutional action—helping you organize participation, make better decisions, and build shared learning over time.

Engagement
Hub

Bring all of your stakeholders, engagements, and outcomes together in one place — turning one-off input into ongoing participation and learning.

Standing Participant
Groups

Create and re-engage participant groups to ensure broad representation and gather the right input at the right moment.

Repeatable Decision
Cycles

Embed participation into your organization with repeatable decision processes that guide alignment and deliver decision-ready results.

Engagement
Templates

Launch common engagement types with ready-to-use templates for budgeting, prioritization, planning, program design—fully customizable to your needs.

Shared Engagement
Data

Turn data into decisions across your organization and network– enabling coordination across teams and sectors.

Use Cases

Policy & Program Design Hub

Build an ongoing way to involve residents and stakeholders on a specific policy area (e.g., housing, climate, public safety, AI governance). Use Polity to gather input, weigh trade-offs, and inform real decisions — without restarting engagement every time. Groups stay connected, learning accumulates, and decisions stay clear and defensible as conditions change.

Community Signals to Operational Decisions

Track community needs, priorities, and emerging issues across different groups. Polity turns that input into clear guidance — what to focus on, what to fund, what to adjust, and what to monitor next—so operational and funding decisions reflect what is happening now, not outdated feedback.

Convenings to Shared Meaning and Action

Use Polity to support conferences, workshops, and roundtables so conversations lead to actionable outcomes. Polity captures key takeaways and agreements, takeaways, and open questions across sessions — and keeps participants organized for follow-up, so the work continues and action is easier to coordinate over time.

Cross-Sector Database and Coordination

Help government, nonprofits and funders work from the same information. Polity provides shared access to engagement data, findings, and decisions across organizations. This reduces duplicated effort, surfaces shared insights and helps partners move faster and more effectively on complex public issues.

Who Polity Is For

Polity is a democratically owned cooperative. Organizations and individuals can use Polity as clients, or join as members to help guide the platform’s evolution and share learning across the network.