Built around the co-design session itself
Witness runs against the actual open session with its participants - not a transcript uploaded after the fact with the context already gone.
Consultation & co-design
Show participants how their contribution influenced the outcome.
Create a clearer path from participation to findings, recommendations and institutional decisions.
What this looks like in practice
Consent is decided per participant, per category
Whether a contribution can be recorded, quoted or identified is decided before capture, against a versioned consent template - not applied afterward as a redaction pass, and never assumed.
A contribution stays connected to what it produced
What someone said links forward through findings and recommendations to the decision it informed - the specific path a participant needs to see their own influence on the outcome.
Nobody is asked the same question twice for nothing
When a contribution can be traced to what it produced, a follow-up consultation can show people what changed because they spoke, instead of asking the same questions with no visible result.