Citizen consultation software · 2026 buyer's guide
Consultation software built for European newsrooms.
If you're planning reader consultations for elections, special editions or policy moments in 2026, a few questions decide it. We answer them here, then point you to the module and the case studies so you can verify. Built on the platform already in production at Der Spiegel, Ouest-France, Milenio and RTS.
The six questions that decide it
What to actually check before signing.
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Beyond polls: open-ended idea collection
A simple poll only captures for or against. A real consultation collects what readers actually propose, then organises it into something a newsroom can use.
Logora : Logora consultations collect free-text propositions, sort them into themed buckets, and rank the strongest by reader vote. Readers can even propose the questions.
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A synthesis your newsroom can publish
A consultation that produces a raw data dump is not editorial. The output has to be publishable, in an article or in print.
Logora : Ranked propositions, themed summaries and an exportable synthesis your team drops straight into a story or a print page. Not a dashboard you have to interpret.
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Moderation at open-submission scale
Open submissions invite spam and toxicity. Without solid moderation, a consultation becomes unusable within hours.
Logora : 85% auto-handled, 15% human queue. Multilingual model trained on 1M+ contributions from European newsrooms. DSA-grade logs by default.
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First-party accounts, through your SSO
Participants should be real, signed accounts in your database, not anonymous one-offs you cannot follow up with.
Logora : OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / JWT integration with your IdP. Subscribers take part in one click, and the participant graph stays in your system.
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EU sovereignty (DSA / GDPR / Schrems II)
A consultation gathers opinions from identified readers. Hosting that outside the EU re-opens the Schrems II risk assessment every year.
Logora : Logora is hosted on OVH, France. No transatlantic data flow. DPA signed by default. Status page : status.logora.fr.
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Built for elections and special editions
Consultations earn their keep around elections, year-end specials and public-budget moments, when reader input becomes editorial gold.
Logora : Time-boxed, theme-organised, election-ready. Ouest-France runs reader consultations on Logora, on the same backend as its comments.
What you get
The full consultation stack, in one widget.
Twelve features that ship by default. No add-on tier required. The same backend that runs comments and debates.
- Open-ended proposition collection
- Themed buckets that organise ideas
- Ranking by reader vote
- Reader-proposed questions
- Multi-question consultations
- AI moderation (85% auto, 15% human review)
- SSO with your paywall (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / JWT)
- Exportable synthesis for article or print
- DSA-grade transparency report
- Multilingual (FR · DE · IT · ES · PT-BR · EN)
- Public REST API + webhooks
- EU hosting (OVH, France) · 99.96% uptime
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Arguments POUR
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▲ 218Les lignes fermées ont été choisies pour leur faible rentabilité, pas pour leur utilité sociale. Le bilan doit être révisé.
▲ 164Arguments CONTRE
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▲ 121La SNCF n'a pas les ressources pour entretenir simultanément le TGV et un réseau capillaire. Il faut choisir.
▲ 87Production numbers
What it actually delivers.
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50M+
reader contributions moderated across the platform since 2019
Logora platform
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85%
of submissions auto-moderated, so your team only handles the rest
Production benchmark
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99.96%
API uptime in Q1 2026, across five monitored services
status.logora.fr
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1.5 d
average technical integration time, including SSO
Production avg
Buyer's questions
What every procurement team asks.
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How is a consultation different from a poll or a debate?
A poll captures a click. A structured debate organises arguments for and against one question. A consultation collects open-ended ideas, sorts them into themes and ranks them by reader vote. See the consultations module.
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Can we run a consultation for an election or a special edition?
Yes. Consultations are time-boxed and theme-organised, built for elections, year-end editions and public-budget moments. Readers submit and rank propositions, and you surface the strongest in your coverage.
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What comes out at the end, can the newsroom publish it?
Ranked propositions, themed summaries and an exportable synthesis. The output is designed to drop straight into an article or a print page, not to sit in a dashboard.
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Do we keep ownership of participant data?
Yes. Participant accounts and contributions live in your database. Logora is your data processor under Article 28 GDPR, hosted in the EU on OVH, France. DSA-ready by default.
Buying decision this quarter?
A 60-min call with Pierre or Henry. We walk through your editorial calendar, the consultation you have in mind, your DSA exposure. You leave with a scoped plan and a number, not a deck. Most pilots start free for 1-2 months.