In short
ConsensIQ grew out of the collaboration between livewall and Dagvoorzitter.nl. livewall brought the technology, and the facilitators of Dagvoorzitter.nl brought years of practical experience from the room. That combination still shapes how the tool is built today.
Two worlds coming together
ConsensIQ wasn't designed at a drawing board, detached from real sessions. It was developed by livewall, the makers of PresentersWall, the interactive event platform from Tilburg that organisations use to ask open questions and gather ideas from their audience. livewall understood the technical side: how to get large groups of participants involved live, through their own phone, without an app, without hassle.
What was missing was knowledge of what actually happens in the room during a difficult decision. For that, livewall worked with Dagvoorzitter.nl, an agency of professional facilitators whose job is guiding groups through complex conversations and decisions.
What the facilitators brought to the table
Facilitators see up close what goes wrong when a group has to reach a decision. They see how a simple yes or no vote leaves a minority feeling excluded, how discussion grinds to a halt once a vote has been cast, and how hard it is to build buy-in when people feel their voice didn't count. That hands-on experience from meeting rooms, member gatherings and strategy days shaped the functional choices behind ConsensIQ: why spread points instead of casting one vote, why elimination rounds instead of a single result, and why there needs to be room for discussion between rounds.
livewall translated those insights into a working platform: a wizard for the admin to set up questions and options, a moderator who runs the session live from a phone or tablet, and a presentation screen on which the whole room watches the points shift.
One platform, two applications
Because ConsensIQ runs on the same platform as PresentersWall, it benefits from the same underlying technology: reliable performance with large groups, participation via link or QR code, and data stored within the EU. Where PresentersWall mainly focuses on interaction and gathering open input, ConsensIQ is built specifically around one question: how do you reach a decision together that the group actually stands behind.
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Why the collaboration lasted
The collaboration between livewall and Dagvoorzitter.nl didn't end once the first version of the platform was live. livewall continues to run and develop ConsensIQ, and facilitator experience continues to shape how new features are designed. You can see that, for example, in how a moderator can freeze a question for discussion, or in how easy it is to add an option mid-session that only came up once the room started talking. These aren't features you dream up without ever having guided a difficult group yourself.
The result is a tool that is technically solid, but that also feels built for the reality of a room full of people with differing opinions. That's also why ConsensIQ works across such different settings: from an in-person gathering with hundreds of participants to a hybrid session where part of the group joins online.
The facilitator's role today
That origin still shows in how ConsensIQ is used today. An experienced facilitator can be brought in on request, not as a bolt-on extra but because guidance and technology have been intertwined from the start. The facilitator knows when to freeze a round for discussion, when to add or drop an option, and how to steer a group towards an outcome that earns broad support. ConsensIQ provides the tool; the guidance remains just as important as the technology itself.
That combination of technology from Tilburg and years of practical experience from the meeting room is exactly why ConsensIQ works the way it does: built for real sessions, not just for the demo. It remains a genuine partnership between technology and facilitation craft, and that is exactly where the real difference lies today.