People know how
Event services and EU software to make sense of the biggest conversations
You bring the room together. dembrane helps you listen: we support every conversation, generate live results while everyone is still in the room, and an outcome document where every insight traces back to what was said.
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"dembrane gives sharp conclusions that spark the necessary discussions, opening up tunnel vision and elevating the conversation to a higher level." - Eveline de Jong; Buurtteams Amsterdam
Pick your format. Book your event.
For teams who have to get a whole room behind a decision - not with static forms, but by scaling up conversations.
Hosted events from €2,500. We design the process with you, and show up on the day to deliver. Smaller workshops from €400.
Strategy session
Set direction by listening closely. One dembrane session in one afternoon, and your strategy document is already drafted from what all your people actually said. For quarterly reviews, offsites and annual plans.
Assembly
Hear a whole room at once and leave with conclusions participants checked themselves. For citizen and general member assemblies, juries and information evenings.
Workshop
Learn from our front-line experience shaping the future of humane AI. Hands-on, built on your own questions, with live results before the coffee is cold. For workshops, team days and inspiration sessions.
Conference
Alternate keynotes with moments where the room talks back, synthesised live for your next speaker. For conferences, member days and symposiums.
The old trade-off
You could listen deeply to a few. Or shallowly to many. Never both.
Every method for hearing a big group was built to live with that trade-off: it asks people to speak, then loses most of what they said. Here's what happens to their input.
I support the new homes, but the parking needs sorting. My daughter's in a wheelchair, she needs a spot by the front door.
What was actually said at the resident evening about the new homes.
Being asked and then ignored breaks trust faster than never being asked at all.
Folger, 1977, and fifty years of procedural justice research since.
- 3 in 10people believe they have a say in what their government doesOECD Trust Survey, 2026
- 28%of employees strongly agree their opinion counts at workGallup, US, 2025
- 69% vs 22%trust in government, between people who feel they have a say and people who don'tOECD, 2024
- 2 secondsof delay is enough to weaken the link people feel between their action and its effectShanks, Pearson & Dickinson, 1989
The answers are already in the room. What’s been missing is a way to hear them all at once.
With dembrane: you can have every conversation on the record at once, outputs validated by the participants themselves, readable as one whole. The phones already in the room do the recording, so there is no hardware to figure out. It's most impactful at big events. People have never been heard like this before.
“I’ve never been a techno-optimist. But what the dembrane team is showing has seriously changed my view of LLMs. It turns out language models really can listen.” Jeroen Tebbe, chair, Stichting Huh?!
We have helped hundreds of organisations across the world actually listen to their people
They brought the people together, we brought award-winning software, and experienced events crew members and trainers to deliver trusted outcomes that won buy-in from their community.
NVTZ discussed their national strategy in every region and made a plan with broad support
TU Eindhoven informed their future governance roadmap, with seamless, multilingual input from 150 stakeholders
Derry/Londonderry made a blueprint for a safer, more inclusive city.
"The technology worked in a way we didn't expect it to... I actually think it made people more comfortable to share" - Project Manager Ireland Twiggs
Deventer Schouwburg developed the vision for the theater’s future
Den Bosch reflected back on their citizen assembly before the day was done
Den Bosch included everyone
“dembrane let us see the fault-lines and the common ground in minutes, not months. It’s the first time our whole team felt ahead of the debate.” - Marloes Engelhardt; Project manager
Instant insights in Rabobank Dialoog sessie for NGO Peel Positief
ECCP reported back automatically on conference with 195 attendees
Flanders crowdsourced a rural-policy pact without drowning in workshop notes
Stichting Huh?! is listening at scale.
Esch-sur-Alzette listened in four languages
One conversation across four languages, with every voice in the same record.
Schuldenlab070 was at every table at once
Demos UK took the room's pulse in twelve minutes
The Political Tech Summit mapped arguments live
BrabantKennis probed the future of AI with a room full of experts.
RDevelopment piloted dembrane for the Rotterdam Stadiondriehoek
Corponet listened to its members at its jubileum event in Teuge
FriZA listened across its werkconferentie
The Sociaal AI Hub gathered its Rotterdam community with dembrane
Avicenna captured its Innovatief Leiderschap workshop
Platform Groene Chemie captured its C4A annual event
Islington Climate Centre recorded its Community Resilience Assembly
Provincie Noord-Brabant harvested the Dag van de Brede Welvaart and Jongerentop Tilburg
Anders Reizen listened to 42 CEOs
Buurtteams Amsterdam captured their evaluation sessions
Erasmus University captured its youth participation colloquium live
ABN AMRO captured two days of dialogue at its Hypotheken Event
Wair and GS1 distilled a Roadmap 2030 from the 24h Circular Fashion Event
Techleap listened across the rounds of the Academic Startup Competition
How it works:
1.Scan a QR code
2.Start talking
3.Listen to everyone
4.Make sense together
Leave the room with shared next steps.
As people talk, dembrane turns dozens of small-group conversations into outcomes you can review and refine on the spot.
Live results across every group
See what’s emerging (and what’s conflicting) while the room is still full.
Draft outcomes you can edit together
Priorities, decisions, actions, written in plain language and ready to iterate.
A record participants stand behind
People check what was heard before it becomes the report, and every insight traces back to a voice.
The best ideas from all the conversations
What did table 12 think? Where do groups disagree? Get answers grounded in every conversation.
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We're ready to help you hear the whole room at once, and create outcomes everyone can get behind.
We dream of what’s possible if we would truly hear each other.
Everyone here at dembrane deeply believes in the future that’s possible when we truly hear each other. To make that future possible, we’re building the platform that makes it easier to make sense of big, messy conversations, so everyone can shape what happens next.
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Featured article
Five ways to use dembrane to improve your dialogue process
June 15, 2026
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Hear the whole room at once, and leave with outcomes people stand behind.