How do institutions make decisions with public input they can actually trust?
Scenius is a civic research platform. It helps organizations reduce uncertainty by turning structured public participation into attributable findings, decision-ready reports, and — when appropriate — implementation.

The four solutions

Scenius operates through four connected pathways. Institutions enter at whichever pathway matches their question.

• Research — structured public participation on a defined question. Contributions accumulate, are synthesized into findings, and become published reports.
• Advisory — the intake and interpretation layer. Institutions bring questions; Scenius helps scope, frame, and translate research into strategy.
• Co-Design — collaborative solution development with the community that surfaced the question, when a research phase points toward specific pathways.
• Implementation — the optional path from research or co-design into pilots and delivery, with the same participants still engaged as it moves forward.

Why Scenius exists

Most public-input tools optimize for volume: comment counts, engagement metrics, viral posts. That surface fails institutions that need to make decisions grounded in what the public actually thinks — because volume without attribution, structure, or synthesis isn’t insight.

Scenius exists to close that gap. Every contribution is attributable. Every synthesis passes through human review before publication. Every report cites the participation that produced it and states what it does not claim to represent.

“Turning structured public participation into insight institutions can act on.”

How research moves through Scenius

A research question is scoped with the sponsoring institution, opened to structured participation, and closed with published findings.

• Institutions request research through Advisory intake.
• Approved projects open to participation — anyone / invited / specific organizations / groups, depending on the project.
• Contributions attach as attributable records — proposals, questions, evaluations, evidence.
• Scenius synthesizes findings across sections (executive summary, key themes, consensus, disagreement, novel insights, action priorities).
• Findings pass human review before publishing. Reports compose published findings into narratives with methodology and limitations stated.

What Scenius is

• A civic research platform for institutions and communities.
• A structured environment for participation that can be cited.
• A workflow: intake → participation → synthesis → findings → implementation.

What Scenius is not

• Social media, a comment system, or a debate arena.
• A think tank producing findings without the participation of the people affected.
• A polling tool that treats a snapshot of opinion as a substitute for research.

For institutions

If you have a decision to make and want structured public input to inform it — start with Advisory. If you want a specific question researched openly — start with Research. Scenius handles scoping, participation, synthesis, and delivery.

For participants

Contribute to research on questions that affect you — with attribution preserved and findings published back. Every contribution is a record, not a comment; it can be built on, cited, and revisited.