Agora helps people overcome disagreement and find consensus, for more democratic and efficient decision-making.

We partner with leading organizations to democratize participation:

FOR FACILITATORS

Agora is an open-source facilitation tool that helps you collect opinions, map disagreement, identify shared priorities, and turn collective input into better decisions.

  1. 01

    Seed

    Clear statements

  2. 02

    Collect

    Votes and opinions

  3. 03

    Map

    Opinion groups

  4. 04

    Find common ground

    Bridging statements

  5. 05

    Prioritize

    Shared proposals

Need the full playbook for events, consultations, and deliberation projects?

Read the guide
Opinion mapping

Find out what divides and unites participants @Polis

Topic mapping

Identify topics and subtopics @Sensemaker

Plural Voting

Rank priorities and preferences @COCM

Customizable login

Email, phone, event ticket, digital ID, or Web3 logins

Demographics

Add a short survey as part of the process

FOR CITIZENS

Participate in meaningful dialogues that shape collective action. See where people agree and disagree on complex, divisive topics.

Phone mockup showing the citizen dialogue feed

USE CASES

Civic Participation

For inclusive, transparent decision-making

  • Citizen assemblies
  • Public consultations
  • Participatory policy-making
Events and Conferences

Turn events into powerful insight engines

  • Hybrid, online, or in person events
  • Conferences
  • Streaming or podcast
Web3 and DAO Governance

Find alignment amidst differences

  • Opinion mapping and conflict resolution before voting
  • Decentralized, verifiable, & bot-proof
Businesses

Better decisions through sense-making

  • Focus groups, user research
  • Strategic brainstorming
  • Employee engagement

TESTIMONIALS

"Agora is beautiful, simple, and intuitive. We have to walk people through other deliberative tools but it's very easy to show them how Agora works."

Emily Long

Search For Common Ground

"Agora made the event feel lively and interactive with participants actively sharing thoughts and reacting in real time, while the live analytics allowed trends to emerge clearly. It really brought the conversation to life and fostered a collaborative and inclusive atmosphere."

Nicholas Adegboyega

UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs

"We need digital platforms make cross-party consensus visible and politically legitimate. The visibility of consensus can put pressure on politicians to move beyond partisan politics and act on what unites us."

Jean-Lou Fourquet

Lyfe Catalyst | Association Tournesol

OUR OFFERING

From free community use to full-service participatory projects

Agora Lite

Forever free for community use

1 admin
Core features

Agora Pro

Custom pricing

Multiple admins
Fully customizable setup
Advanced features (moderation, analytics, demographic, etc)

Facilitation & Consulting

Hourly rate

Design your process and methodology
Facilitate workshops or sessions
Produce actionable insights & reports

FAQ

Using Agora

3 questions

Who is Agora for?

Agora is for facilitators, event organizers, civic engagement teams, community managers, companies, DAOs, NGOs, public institutions, and any group that needs to understand people across differences.

How do I choose between Conversation Mode and Prioritization Mode?

Use Conversation Mode when the question is still open and you want to gather perspectives, map disagreement, and find common ground. Use Prioritization Mode when you already have proposals and need a ranked list of what matters most. Read the Facilitation Guide.

Can I use both modes together?

Yes. A common process is to start with Conversation Mode, identify strong or bridging proposals, then use Prioritization Mode to turn them into an actionable ranking.

How Consensus Works

5 questions

How does Agora find common ground?

Participants vote agree, disagree, or unsure on statements. Agora then maps patterns in those votes, not the wording of the statements, to show where people cluster, where they diverge, and which statements receive support across different opinion groups. The opinion mapping is based on machine learning, not LLM, using Red Dwarf, an open-source reimplementation of the original Pol.is.

What is the difference between consensus and majority?

A majority statement is supported by most participants overall. A consensus statement is supported across opinion groups, so it cannot simply override a smaller group. In Agora, consensus does not mean everyone agrees; it means the statement has legitimacy across the main differences in the room.

What are opinion groups and bridging statements?

Opinion groups are clusters of participants who vote in similar ways. They are inferred from voting behavior, not from demographics or AI labels. Bridging statements are statements that different groups support, even when those same groups disagree on many other things. This is the Pol.is-inspired part of the algorithm that makes hidden common ground visible.

Is AI deciding the results?

No. The opinion groups and common-ground signals come from deterministic voting-pattern analysis, not from generative AI. After the opinion grouping step, Agora uses Mistral Large to label and summarize the representative opinions of each group, but those summaries are only an aid for reading the results. The source statements remain visible under each group, and AI summaries can be turned off by conversation owners.

What is Plural Voting?

Plural Voting is used when a group needs to prioritize proposals, not just map opinions. It helps produce a ranked list while accounting for diversity within the group. Instead of only rewarding the largest bloc, it looks for priorities that can hold legitimacy across differences.

Privacy & Trust

4 questions

How does Agora protect privacy with zero-knowledge proofs?

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) let participants prove eligibility or uniqueness without revealing any personal data. For example, proving your age group to Agora without revealing your actual age. Currently Agora supports ZK Passport, which allows you to prove citizenship, age, and gender anonymously. Contact us if you want to discover and configure other identity systems such as anonymous proof of event attendance, GPS location, or even WiFi connection.

Is participation on Agora anonymous?

Agora supports privacy-preserving participation, but anonymity depends on the setup and on what people write. Why ZKPs alone are not enough to protect privacy.

How does moderation work?

Anyone can report content such as spam, misleading, antisocial, sexual, doxxing, or illegal content. Conversation creators and moderators can act on reports, and moderation actions are recorded in moderation history.

Is Agora GDPR compliant?

Agora is developed by ZKorum SAS in France and is designed around privacy by design, data minimization, user rights, and GDPR obligations.

Open Infrastructure

2 questions

Is Agora open source?

Yes. Agora's code is available on GitHub under open-source licenses. We encourage auditing, feedback, and contributions from the community. We uphold the vision that democracy needs digital infrastructure that anyone can use, modify, and improve.

Can Agora work with other tools?

Yes. Agora supports practical interoperability through imports, exports, embeds, APIs (under development), and open-source code. We also launched the DDS (Decentralized Deliberation Standard) initiative, for broader protocol-level interoperability.

OUR TEAM

Yuting Jiang

Yuting Jiang

CEO & Co-Founder

Nicolas Gimenez

Nicolas Gimenez

CTO & Co-Founder

George Charnley

George Charnley

Product Designer

"We build Agora for human and planetary flourishing."

Agora

2024 © ZKorum SAS

Legal Notice

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe 2020 research and innovation program through the NGI TRUSTCHAIN program under cascade funding agreement No. 101093274 and the NGI SARGASSO project under grant agreement No. 101092887.