Loomio - Collaborative Decision-Making Tool
Loomio is an innovative platform designed to facilitate collaborative decision-making for organizations, helping teams make great decisions without the need for endless meetings. Built with a focus on inclusivity and transparency, Loomio offers a structured environment for discussions and voting, ensuring all voices are heard.
Key Features
- Focused Discussion Platform: Allows asynchronous conversations to scale with rich text editing, attachments, and annotated timelines.
- Expressive Voting Systems: Supports multiple voting methods including show of thumbs, multiple choice, score voting, ranked choice, and dot voting.
- Customizable Templates: Offers templates for decision-making processes like Advice, Consent, and Consensus, which can be tailored to organizational needs.
- Integration Capabilities: Connects with chat apps like Slack and Mattermost, and provides a simple API for automation of threads and polls.
- Open Source and Privacy Focused: Code is open source with options for self-hosting, data export in multiple formats, and no ad trackers.
- Multilingual Support: Available in several languages with automatic inline translation for cross-language communication.
Use Cases
Loomio is ideal for membership organizations, governance boards, and self-managing companies looking to streamline decision processes. It enhances transparency in membership organizations by engaging members inclusively, improves agility in governance by creating safe communication spaces, and empowers staff in self-managing entities through distributed decision-making.
Whether you're a cooperative, a non-profit, or a distributed team, Loomio helps build trust, coordinate action, and maintain a record of decisions, making it a powerful tool for modern collaborative environments.
