Use Cases
Wherever groups gather to think together
Citizens’ assemblies, focus groups, strategy offsites, member days: Explore how groups like yours make sense of conversations at scale.
Find your challenge
Gather
Synthesizing knowledge, documenting insights, making sense of what a group knows
Understand
Gathering input, listening at scale, surfacing what groups think
Explore
Imagining futures, expanding thinking, creative exploration
Align
Building commitment, coordinating action, moving forward together
Decide
Reaching recommendations, finding consensus, deliberating together
Gathering Expert Knowledge
Imagine
Valuable knowledge exists in many heads and many conversations. You need to make it visible, shareable, and usable.
The platform enables rapid synthesis across hundreds of conversations: finding patterns, connections, and insights that no single person could hold in their head. The result is a searchable archive of what was said and a structured synthesis of what it means. For conferences and events, this means walking out with a real knowledge product, not just a pile of flip charts.
- A conference with 40 parallel sessions synthesized into a coherent output
- A community of practice convening to share and document emerging best practices
- An organization capturing lessons learned from a major project across 12 teams
- A research consortium synthesizing insights from practitioners across a field
Who this is for
Understanding what people think
Imagine
You need to hear from many people, and to make sense of what they said without flattening it into a survey response.
Participants scan a QR code and talk in small groups. dembrane transcribes every conversation, then synthesizes across all of them—surfacing themes, tensions, and outliers. You get a report with full traceability: every insight links back to the conversation it came from.
No one has to take notes. Nothing gets lost. And because people are talking (not typing), you hear what they actually think—not what fits in a text box.
- Thirty residents at round tables discussing a proposed development
- A consultancy synthesizing 200 stakeholder interviews for a transport authority
- A health system running patient listening sessions across six clinics
- A university gathering input from students, faculty, and staff on campus policy
Who this is for
Exploring futures and possibilities
Imagine
You’re deliberately expanding the space of what’s possible before narrowing down. The goal is generative, not convergent, and you need to capture the full richness of what emerges.
Creative conversations are hard to synthesize: they branch, they build, they circle back. dembrane captures the full texture, then helps you find patterns across explorations: recurring themes, surprising connections, productive tensions.
Explore mode can even offer socratic questions mid-conversation: prompts designed to push thinking further based on what’s been said across all the conversations in a given project.
- A foresight consultancy running scenario workshops with 80 stakeholders across three cities
- A design firm facilitating co-design sessions with community members and service users
- An innovation team running ideation sprints across departments
- A regional government convening residents to envision their community in 2040
Who this is for
Aligning and moving forward
Imagine
You’re moving from individual perspectives to collective commitment. People need to leave the room with shared clarity on what happens next and confidence that others share it.
It creates a shared record of what was discussed and decided. It surfaces where genuine alignment exists and flags where it doesn’t so you can address real disagreements rather than papering over them.
Walk out with draft commitments, action items, and priorities written in plain language, validated by the people who made them.
- A leadership team spending two days aligning on strategic priorities
- A coalition of organizations clarifying shared goals and individual commitments
- A company bringing together 150 managers to create a new strategy
- A network convening partners to coordinate on a shared initiative.
Who this is for
Deciding together
Imagine
A group needs to move from many perspectives to shared recommendations. The process needs to be defensible and not concentrate power.
As tables deliberate, dembrane surfaces where agreement is forming and where genuine disagreement remains. Participants can verify or refine what the AI surfaces—so the final outputs reflect what people actually concluded, not what an algorithm guessed.
The result: recommendations with an auditable trail. You can show exactly how the group got there—which conversations, which moments, which points of consensus.
- Fifty randomly-selected residents deliberating on climate policy over three weekends.
- A regional authority convening stakeholders to prioritize infrastructure investments.
- A network's annual general meeting deciding on strategic direction.
- A foundation's grantee council shaping funding priorities together
Who this is for
No matter the sector, collaboration is built on conversation.
Public sector
Democratic processes need to be legitimate. dembrane creates an auditable trail from conversation to conclusion, so you can engage the people and show your work.
For municipalities, regional governments, national agencies, universities, watchdogs, youth councils, public institutions.
Networks & events
When your community gathers, the conversations are the point. dembrane helps you stop entertaining and start engaging, by capturing the value of all those conversations and sharing it back.
For conferences, member days, communities of practice, AGMs, professional associations, coalitions, movements.
Consulting
Your value is in the thinking, not the transcription and coding. dembrane handles the capture and initial synthesis so you can focus on insight and strategy.
We partner with strategy consultancies, stakeholder engagement firms, qualitative researchers, foresight practitioners & design consultancies
Internal / corporate
Your people have insights leadership needs to hear. dembrane makes it possible to actually listen, show you’re listening, and quickly get to the heart of what matters.
From town halls and strategy offsites, to employee listening, innovation days, leadership retreats and transformation programs - we’ve got it covered.