Use Cases
Citizens' assemblies, focus groups, strategy offsites, member days: Explore how groups like yours make sense of conversations at scale.
Find your challenge
Knowledge management
institutional memory
lessons learned
best practice sharing
organizational learning
expertise mapping
Collective intelligence
distributed cognition
swarm intelligence
collective sense-making
resident engagement
public engagement
community listening
listening sessions
town halls
unconference capture
multi-track conference synthesis
practitioner networks
professional learning communities
What it looks like in practice:
What dembrane does:
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.
Works for:
Conferences and summits synthesizing insights across many sessions
Professional associations capturing knowledge from member convenings
Communities of practice documenting emerging practice and lessons learned
Research networks synthesizing practitioner knowledge
Organizations capturing institutional knowledge before it walks out the door
Foundations harvesting insights from grantee convenings
Focus groups
qualitative research
user research
contextual inquiry
ethnographic research
interview synthesis
discovery research
sentiment analysis
Public consultation
stakeholder research
community input
citizen engagement
resident engagement
public engagement
community listening
listening sessions
town halls
Voice of customer
employee listening
needs assessment
patient voice
member input
interview synthesis
discovery research
constituent feedback
What it looks like in practice:
What dembrane does:
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.
Works for:
Municipalities running public consultations on planning, policy, or budgets
Healthcare organizations gathering patient and community voices
Consultancies conducting stakeholder research for clients
Universities engaging students, staff, and faculty on institutional decisions
Foundations and NGOs listening to grantees or communities they serve
Corporations running voice-of-customer or employee listening programs
Exploring futures and possibilities
Strategic foresight
scenario planning
futures thinking
emerging issues analysis
backcasting
futures cone
speculative futures
anticipatory governance
Design thinking
co-design
participatory design
service design
ideation workshops
design sprints
innovation workshops
creative problem-solving
possibility mapping
generative research
Vision co-creation
collective visioning
collecting dreams
preferred futures
transformation scenarios
partnership decisions
What it looks like in practice:
What dembrane does:
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.
Works for:
Foresight consultancies running scenario planning and futures workshops
Design firms facilitating co-design and participatory design processes
Corporate innovation teams running ideation and design sprints
Governments doing strategic foresight or long-term planning
NGOs and coalitions visioning collective futures
Universities teaching futures thinking or design methods
Aligning and moving forward
Strategy offsites
leadership alignment
executive retreats
cross-functional alignment
organizational alignment
Change management
transformation program
culture change
merger integration
organizational development
transition planning
roadmapping
Coalition building
partnership alignment
multi-stakeholder coordination
collective action
movement building
network strengthening
What it looks like in practice:
What dembrane does:
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.
Works for:
Executive teams running strategy offsites or leadership retreats
Consultancies facilitating alignment and change processes for clients
Coalitions building shared commitments across organizations
Networks coordinating action among distributed partners
Companies cascading strategy or running transformation kickoffs
Project teams aligning stakeholders at project launch
Deciding together
Citizens' assemblies
deliberative panels
mini-publics
policy juries
planning cells
consensus conferences
sortition panels
citizens' councils
Policy deliberation
co-governance
participatory governance
participatory governance
multi-stakeholder governance
advisory panels
public hearings
regulatory consultation
Strategic planning
priority-setting
collective decision-making
consensus-building
board deliberation
partnership decisions
What it looks like in practice:
What dembrane does:
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.
Works for:
Governments running citizens' assemblies, deliberative panels, and participatory processes
Municipalities convening residents on planning, budgets, or local policy
Networks and associations making collective decisions at AGMs or member convenings
Multi-stakeholder initiatives building consensus across sectors
Organizations running deliberative strategic planning processes