Co-design with more than one organisation in the room.
Real co-design is not one facilitator and a form. It is several organisations, several workshops, and people who join in different ways - all contributing to one accountable record.
What co-design actually looks like in Witness
Several organisations, one workspace
A workspace can hold participants and reviewers from more than one organisation at once. Access follows explicit membership and role assignment - never a shared login, and never implicit trust because two people are in the same room.
Four ways to join a session
A facilitator chooses how a session admits people: already-invited members only, a verified guest who signs in without prior access, a pseudonymous name chosen at the door, or fully anonymous. The choice is made once, per session, and enforced the same way regardless of who is joining.
Voice first, not a form
A participant scans a link, sees who is running the session and what they are being asked to agree to, and can start recording in three taps. Typing is never the only way to contribute.
Facilitator, reviewer and Knowledge Steward are different jobs
A facilitator runs the session and adds evidence. A reviewer confirms it into the record. A Knowledge Steward curates how concepts connect across sessions. None of the three role is assumed to also be the others.
A claim can be sent back to the community
Reviewing a candidate claim is not limited to approve or reject - it can be returned for community review, marked qualified, or sent back with a request for clarification before anyone decides what it means.
Disagreement is recorded, not resolved by majority
When two groups genuinely see something differently, Witness can hold both readings against the same evidence rather than forcing a single official version before anyone is ready to agree on one.
Several organisations, one session
A synthetic example of people joining the same session by different, equally governed paths.
Illustrative example
Several participants across organisations joining one session
contributorInvited memberOrganisation A
contributorVerified guestOrganisation B
contributorPseudonymous participant
→sources become
contributionSessionOne shared record
→leads to
evidenceEvidenceReviewed, not assumed
See how your own workshops would look inside Witness.