Before
- Define the purpose of the work.
- Establish participation and consent.
- Prepare sessions and identify people and roles.
- Bring existing documents and evidence together in one place.
For teams building solutions together
Build better decisions with the people affected by them.
Witness helps organisations run workshops, consultations and co-design processes where contributions don’t disappear into sticky notes and reports. It keeps the path from what people said, to what was learned, to what was decided, to what happens next.
- Runs securely in your browser — no installation required
- Built for workshops, consultation and co-design
- Every contribution stays traceable to what it produced
The familiar problem
A workshop happens. The knowledge shouldn't disappear with it.
People contribute valuable knowledge. Sticky notes, recordings, transcripts, survey responses and facilitator notes accumulate. A report gets written. Months later, nobody can clearly reconstruct:
- What participants actually said.
- Which evidence influenced which recommendation.
- Why a decision was made.
- Whether commitments were acted on.
- Whether participants’ contributions changed anything.
Witness exists to preserve that chain.
How Witness supports an engagement
Before, during and after — not just a final report.
Only capabilities Witness actually supports today — nothing here describes a future release.
During
- Capture contributions as they happen.
- Connect discussion to the evidence behind it.
- Identify findings as they emerge, not weeks later.
- Maintain context across multiple sessions.
- Make sense of what you are hearing together, not alone afterwards.
After
- Turn evidence into findings and recommendations.
- Document decisions and the commitments they carry.
- Show participants what changed because they spoke.
- Retain the reasoning, not just the outcome.
- Follow actions through to their outcomes.
- Keep an institutional memory the next programme can build on.
Not just record-keeping
Witness helps groups build solutions together, not just collect data.
Different perspectives stay attached to the decisions they inform, instead of being flattened into a single summary document.
ListenMake sense togetherDecideActLearn
A worked example
See the record, not a mockup.
This is a synthetic example built from Witness’s actual data model — not a generic SaaS dashboard invented for marketing. Explore the full walkthrough on the demo page.
Illustrative example
Institutional Transformation Programme
A synthetic record showing how relationships stay visible.
- Evidence
- 186
- Contributors
- 54
- Recommendations
- 18
- Decisions
- 8
- Actions
- 21
Decision #08
ApprovedAdopt revised complaints process
Supporting evidence
- Community consultation #14
- Staff workshop #08
- Service review #03
- Policy analysis #07
Action #21
Implement revised service process
Linked to Decision #08
- evidenceEvidenceleads to
- findingFindingleads to
- recommendationRecommendationleads to
- decisionDecisionleads to
- actionAction
A workshop contribution, traced end to end
One contribution, followed all the way through to the outcome it produced.
- contributorContributorleads to
- contributionContributionleads to
- evidenceEvidenceleads to
- findingFindingleads to
- recommendationRecommendationleads to
- decisionDecisionleads to
- actionActionleads to
- outcomeOutcome
Why not existing tools?
You probably already have some of this.
None of these replace the others — Witness connects what happens across all of them.
Video and meeting tools
Capture the conversation.
Survey tools
Collect responses.
Whiteboards
Support ideation.
Document systems
Store the files.
Project systems
Track the tasks.
Witness connects the evidence and reasoning across those stages, so an organisation can later explain how a contribution became a decision, and a decision became an action.
Who Witness is for
Built for the work that has to be traceable.
Workshop facilitation, co-design, consultation, government, development and research.
Workshop & facilitation teams
Run a session without losing what happened in it — capture, evidence and outcomes stay in one traceable place.
Co-design programmes
Design solutions with more than one organisation in the room, and keep every perspective attached to the decision it informed.
Community consultation
Show a community what changed because they spoke, not just that you listened.
Government and policy
Connect public consultation, policy evidence and decisions into a traceable institutional record.
International development
Preserve evidence from field engagement through implementation, across partners and countries.
Research and evidence programmes
Keep the line between what the evidence said and what the programme decided.
Institutional learning & organisational memory
Keep the reasoning behind a decision when the people who made it move on.
What this means for you
What you get to say, honestly, afterwards.
Not aspirations — the actual result of using Witness.
- Don’t lose what people told you.
- Show participants what changed.
- Make decisions explainable.
- Keep knowledge when staff and consultants leave.
- Connect evidence to action.
- Learn across programmes instead of starting again.
- Build trust through visible reasoning.
Trust
Governance requires more than a database.
Once the value is clear: how consent, roles and access, provenance, data sovereignty, deployment options and security actually work. See exactly what Witness deploys, configures and does not yet claim.
Talk to us about your project.
Tell us about the workshop, consultation or programme you’re running. We’ll show you how Witness would fit — no installation required, Witness runs in your browser.