Solving for Participatory Policymaking with AI

Civis works with governments to make stakeholder consultation more participatory, evidence-based, and scalable through civic technology and AI-enabled tools.

AI-Enabled Public Consultation at Scale

Civis works with governments to make stakeholder consultation more participatory, evidence-based, and scalable through civic technology and AI-enabled tools.
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Trusted by Governments
Our long-term partnerships with governments enable us to embed stronger consultation practices through co-designed processes, capacity building, and tailored digital interventions.
1400+
Consultations Conducted
8,11,297
Citizens' Insights Gathered
92,655+
Hours of Citizen Voices Analysed
8,24,862
Feedback Records Processed
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Government Partners

Engaged, Evidence-Based and Inclusive

Civis helps institutions to co-create and conduct consultations aligned with national PLCP guidelines, so that public input can shape more effective policy interventions.
Pre-Consultation Phase
  • Agenda Setting: Conduct early consultations to define the issue, and assess the potential impact and feasibility of the proposed policy.
  • Policy formulation: Strengthen draft policies using the Policy Analyser to identify gaps, improve quality, and generate citizen-friendly summaries for wider accessibility.
Consultation Duration
Stakeholder Consultation: Engage relevant stakeholders through the platform, collect and aggregate feedback in diverse languages, formats, and forms.
Reporting and Analysis
Evaluation: Turn feedback into actionable policy insights through clause-level analysis, sentiment metrics, and visual dashboards, with outputs that can be directly integrated into reports and documentation.

Data-Driven Tools for
Enhanced Policy Design

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Policy Summariser
An AI tool that turns complex drafts into clear, multilingual summaries, helping policy teams prepare public notices, departmental briefings, and review materials faster, with consistent and accurate outputs that boost citizen participation.
  • Faster preparation of accessible summaries across English, Hindi, and local dialects.
  • Consistent messaging across all consultation materials.
  • Improved comprehension for diverse audiences, driving higher quality citizen participation.
The result: time saved, clarity gained, and stronger consultations.
Excerpt from a document titled 'Framework of India's Climate Finance Taxonomy' showing objectives of the taxonomy.
Policy Analyser
An AI tool that reviews draft policies for quality, completeness, and translation accuracy, offering clear, evidence-based diagnostics and scorecards that help governments save time, reduce risk, and strengthen policy before release.
  • Evidence-based diagnostics to guide redrafting.
  • Transparent rationale for internal approvals
  • Reproducible audit trails that reduce administrative time and risk during finalisation.
  • Checks translations in all 21 official languages, ensuring consistency across multilingual drafts
The result: stronger, consultation-ready policies with less time and uncertainty.
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Civis Consultation Platform
A citizen participation platform that makes consultations inclusive, multilingual, and accessible—offering governments a ready-to-deploy, WCAG-compliant system to collect, manage, and analyse feedback across multiple channels with ease.
  • Multilingual, multi-format communication for diverse audiences.
  • Accessibility and inclusivity by design.
  • Open-source infrastructure with strong data protection.
  • Customisable workflows that fit institutional preferences.
For the policy team, this means reduced administrative burden, reliable consultation management, and large-scale citizen engagement that is credible and inclusive.
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Response Analyser
An AI tool that processes citizen feedback at scale, mapping it directly to policy clauses with sentiment and theme analysis—giving governments faster, transparent insights for evidence-based revisions.
  • Faster evidence-based revisions and Clause-wise mapping of inputs.
  • Voice transcription to integrate spoken and in-person feedback into the same dataset.
  • Interactive dashboards for targeted review and filtering by sentiment or quality.
  • Reduced manual effort in categorising thousands of responses.
The result: consultations that are quicker to analyse, easier to communicate, and stronger in impact.