Better Decisions Together

Confers software and services helps professionals engage and consult with a wide range of stakeholders across Built Environment, Innovation or Transformation Projects.

Engage and consult at each project stage

Confers supports a range of consultation and feedback activities to suit the stage of your project and the type of consultee.

Bid Workshops

Organise interactive ideas & feedback workshops in order to crowdsource the best ideas from your team to help shape a winning bid.

Progress Reviews

Manage project progress presentations, discussions and decisions, identify problems and propose solutions.

Strategic Briefing

Manage client and client stakeholder consultations by private invite, to inform project user requirements, shape your project brief.

Handover Meetings

Create informative training material for handover meetings, explaining final outcomes and fielding Q&A from end users.

Design Reviews

Manage regular time-critical reviews on designs in development, discuss changes and record decisions and outcomes.

Project Retrospectives

Manage team or end user feedback on each stage of the project process and outcomes.

Public Consultations

Manage local community or public consultations, using visual media, embedded in your website or shared via social media.

Post Project Engagement

Manage a range of project engagement activities to meet educational, thought leadership and general dissemination objectives.

“Sharing video and panoramic photography made our online consultation really real and engaging for people contributing to its success.”

Kieran McSherry, Sustrans

“.. really simple to set up and use and gave us a great way to make our consultation open and accessible to as many people as possible.”

Kathryn Hearnden, Canterbury City Council

“allowed us to take engagement to another level as part of both formal and informal gathering of ideas, comments and observations.”

Kim Smith, Royal Borough of Greenwich

“ gave us a great way to reach out to lots of different stakeholders to ensure our proposals were informed by a broad array of perspectives.”

Nidhi Baiswar, Head of Sustainable Design and Construction, Bouygues UK,

What kinds of projects?

Confers is project agnostic, but we have experience in supporting three generic types of projects.

Built Environment

Urban Design & Planning
Place-making & Regeneration
Architecture & Engineering
Construction
Transport and Infrastructure

Technology & Innovation

New Product Development
Digital Transformation
User Research & Design
Innovation and Research
Smart Cities

Strategic Planning & Change

Business Planning and Strategy
Business Transformation
Workspace Transformation
Service Transformation
Policy Development

Why Confer?

Confers helps professional project teams to engage their various stakeholders and capture clear & timely feedback, keeping everyone efficiently involved and informed and helping identify and remove project risk.

More Convenient

Nothing to download, available in web and mobile devices, Confers enables your stakeholders to:

understand the project content and context
engage and have a say
stay informed of outcomes

More Efficient

Organiser tools enable you to very quickly publish and automate a range of engagement and feedback activities by:

reusing standard presentation content
augmenting content with explanatory notes and video
automating engagement within a timeframe

Less Risks

Regular stakeholder engagement and feedback on your project increases buy-in, reduces risks, and helps innovation:

everyone stays engaged throughout the process
consensus built behind proposals
clear & transparent audit trail of decision-making

A simple online solution

Extended Opportunity

From focus groups and invited design reviews to full scale public consultations, this is the simplest way to ensure you've given everyone you need a chance to understand the project stage and contribute at the appropriate time.

Clear & Timely Feedback in One Place

Invite stakeholders to feedback during the planning, designing, building, selling or improvement of any kind of product, service, environment or business and automate the whole process.

Are You Ready To Confer?

Book an online demonstration to learn how Confers can simplify stakeholder feedback for your project or organization. Alternatively, if you'd like to an initial call let us know and we'll call you.