Read the room before the room arrives.
A rezoning, a transit route, a levy, a new facility, a service change. Presaga shows how residents, business owners, community groups and council are likely to react to the proposal — and to the way you've worded it — before the notice goes out.
Before the notice is published, an AI-simulated version of your community reads the proposal: the households on the affected street, the group that turns out for every hearing, the residents on a fixed income, the councillor who has to defend it. You get a written briefing on where support holds and where opposition forms, while the wording can still change.
A consultation is expensive to get wrong.
The framing of the question decides who shows up. By the open house it's already published, already screenshotted, already a slogan on a lawn sign. Most teams find out where a proposal breaks by watching it break — in a full council chamber, or in a comment thread nobody has answered.
Presaga puts the proposal in front of a simulated version of the community first: the people directly affected, the groups that organize, the residents who never attend anything and still vote. You learn which concern organizes people, and which wording keeps them in the conversation — while the materials are still drafts.
A PRISM briefing is a simulation of likely reaction. It does not satisfy any statutory notice or consultation requirement, and it is not a poll of residents.
It's a rehearsal, run before the statutory process, so the statutory process starts better informed. Use it to prepare the notice, the materials and the staff who have to stand in front of the room — not to replace a hearing, a comment period, or a vote.
The proposals that draw a crowd.
Reaction matters most where the decision touches homes, taxes and the street people live on. These are the situations teams test before going public.
Zoning & rezonings
Density, height and setbacks that the households on the block read as a change to their own street, not as a planning instrument.
Transit & routes
A new line, a cut service, a station where somebody's parking is. Winners and losers rarely line up the way the ward map suggests.
Tax & levy changes
A cost that's personal and a benefit that's shared. The explanation carries more weight than the number does.
Facilities: pools, arenas, branches
A new build, a relocation, a closure. The people closest to it arrive first and stay longest.
Development proposals
Approvals where support and opposition turn on one detail — shadow, traffic, a tree, a use nobody expected to read in the application.
Roads, water & major works
Projects that disrupt for years before they deliver. To the people on the detour, the disruption is the message.
Bylaws & service changes
Short-term rentals, snow clearing, waste collection, parking. Rules that need buy-in, not just a published notice.
Before, during, and when it turns.
All three run on PRISM. A consultation usually moves through them in this order.
Presaga Campaign
The proposal is decided and the notice isn't written — or it's written and not yet sent. Campaign compares framings side by side, shows where support holds and where opposition concentrates, and names the wording that meets the least resistance.
Presaga Pulse
The post has filled with comments and nobody from the municipality has replied. Pulse reads the thread, finds the other places the same argument is running, plays it forward, and tests replying against staying out.
Presaga Crisis
A leaked report, a remark at the microphone, a meeting that went badly, a project that has become a story. Crisis drafts the statement from your facts, tests it against residents, media and the bodies that will be asked about it, and refines it.
The room, read in advance.
The call first — proceed, reframe, or hold — then everything it rests on.
- Who turns out, and who doesn'tWhich groups mobilize, which stay home, and what each one is actually worried about — with the simulated reactions each finding came from.
- Where opposition formsThe concern that organizes people, the street or interest it starts on, and how quickly it travels once it has a name.
- The framing that meets the least resistanceWhich way of putting the question keeps people in the conversation, and which one hands the room a slogan.
- The question your notice never answersCost, timeline, who pays, what happens to the service in the meantime. People fill that gap themselves, and their version is worse than yours.
- What to do before the doors openWhat to publish, who to brief first, which materials to change — and the moves that would make it worse, named so nobody makes them.
- Evidence & confidenceEvery finding's citations, the reviewers' disagreements on the record, what would change the call, and a confidence reading that can only be lowered.
Six seats read the reactions and argue over what they mean. The Hostile Reader reads your notice the way an organized opponent will read it; the Voice of the Audience speaks for the people the proposal lands on. Where they split, you read both sides.
- Voice of the Audience
- Devil's Advocate
- Evidence Checker
- Hostile Reader
- Message Checker
- Defender of the Draft
From a proposal to a decision-ready briefing in four steps.
Tell it what's going on
A few sentences in your own words, a draft if you have one, a link if the conversation is already out there. A short guided conversation fills in the rest — mostly by clicking.
PRISM builds your audience
A simulated population built from your stakeholders — customers, employees, residents, journalists, regulators — including the real public bodies your situation pulls in.
They react. Then it's argued.
The audience reacts to the actual material. A named panel of AI reviewers argues about what the reactions mean, and a reviewer whose job is to break the draft attacks the conclusion.
You get the Decision Report
The call, the evidence, the disagreements, what would change the call, and an honest confidence reading. Read it, share it from your own portal, download it, or listen to it.
What goes in, what comes out.
One illustrative example for each product, written to the shape of a current Decision Report — the situation as a customer would type it, and the call as the report delivers it.
A recall statement, tonight
Five sentences about a lab result in — a statement drafted, tested and revised out, with the sentence to cut named.
See the example →A price increase, announced
The email and the brief in — refine first, with the line that lands, the line that doesn't, and the discount not to invent.
See the example →A thread turning on a town
A link and one sentence in — where it's heading, who's carrying it, and whether replying helps or hurts.
See the example →Into the agenda package, or into your ear.
Read the briefing in the app, publish it to your own branded portal for council and staff, download the PDF for the agenda package, send a secure link to the clerk or your engagement consultant, or listen to the audio briefing on the way to the meeting.
Change the framing and run it again. The new briefing opens with Since your prior run — what got resolved, what's new, and how confidence moved and why. When the consultation is live, Pulse re-reads the conversation on whatever cadence the file needs, and scores its own earlier calls.
Public bodies are accountable for where information sits.
Your account, documents and reports are hosted and stored in Canada, encrypted at rest. On the standard service the AI model that processes your content runs outside Canada; if your rules require in-country processing end to end, we run PRISM for you on dedicated Canadian hardware as a private deployment.
Source-code review can be arranged for enterprise and public-sector procurement, so your security team can check how data is handled rather than take a page's word for it.
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