The story behind ConsensIQ: born at livewall together with the facilitators of Dagvoorzitter.nl
How ConsensIQ grew out of the collaboration between livewall and the facilitators of Dagvoorzitter.nl.
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About
Built by people who have run rooms for years
ConsensIQ started with a frustration every facilitator knows. You have a room full of people with knowledge and ideas, and at the end of the day there is a vote. The biggest group wins and everyone else goes home feeling their view didn't matter.
Dagvoorzitter.nl, a Dutch agency of professional chairs and facilitators, wanted to change that. They teamed up with livewall in Tilburg, the makers of the interactive event software PresentersWall. Together they built a tool where people spread points instead of casting a single vote, and where nobody gets voted off.
The facilitators brought what they had learned on stage: which questions work, when to freeze a vote, how to keep a group with you. Livewall brought the technology and years of experience with large live events.
Today livewall runs ConsensIQ and keeps developing it. If you would like an experienced facilitator at your session, we arrange that with the people who helped create it.
Together we know better
That is the idea behind ConsensIQ. A group that weighs options together gets further than a group that just counts hands.
Who is behind it
livewall
Interactive agency from Tilburg and maker of PresentersWall. Runs and develops ConsensIQ.
Dagvoorzitter.nl
Agency of professional chairs and facilitators. Co-developer of ConsensIQ.
Together we know better
ConsensIQ at a glance
- What
- A web-based consensus tool: participants spread points across options, and the weakest option drops out each round.
- For whom
- Organisations, municipalities, associations and event organisers who want a group to choose together.
- How
- Spread points (e.g. 100), several voting rounds, points on dropped options go back to the participant.
- Options
- Up to 10 per question, as text or image.
- Participants
- Hundreds at once, day licences up to 500+.
- Format
- In person, hybrid and online.
- App needed?
- No. Join via a link or QR code on your own phone.
- Data
- Stored in the EU, participants can join anonymously.
- Maker
- livewall (makers of PresentersWall, Tilburg), developed together with Dagvoorzitter.nl.
From the knowledge base
Consensus decision-making and buy-in: what it is and what it isn't
What consensus decision-making really means, why it isn't unanimity, and how to build buy-in during a session.
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What is ConsensIQ and how does a consensus session work?
ConsensIQ is next level voting: participants spread points over options across several rounds, so you measure real support instead of a bare majority.
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Together we know better
Tell us what you need to decide and how many people are involved. We'll show you in a short demo what that looks like in ConsensIQ.