Every voice that matters,
heard at scale.
Your stakeholders, heard on their own time, and reported like senior consulting work.
Your people. Not stand-ins for them.
There is a fast-growing habit of pointing AI at synthetic data and market panels to confirm what an organization already assumes. Ask enough strangers who happen to match your stakeholders' demographics, and you can find support for almost any conclusion.
We take a different view. The opinions that matter most are the ones your decisions land on: your residents, your students, your clients, and your employees. Not a model's impression of them, and not a panel that resembles them, but the people themselves.
Candidly AI exists to hear from your stakeholders directly, and at scale, so your decisions rest on what real people told you rather than on a model's best guess.
The focus areas we run today
Pick a focus area to see who it is for, the problem it solves, and how it runs.
Government
Give every resident a way to be heard.
Who it is for
Municipalities that want to hear from residents on a budget, a strategic plan, or a contentious project, without standing up an engagement team.
The problem
Section 216.1 of the Municipal Government Act asks every municipality to have a public participation policy and to engage its residents. For a small town without a dedicated engagement team, living up to that is hard. Town halls and open houses only reach the residents who can attend in person, and POPA has raised the privacy bar on any new tool that touches resident data.
How Candidly AI works here
Take a question your community is already talking about, such as how residents feel about a proposed data centre, and publish a line they can call. Residents share their views when it suits them, including the many who would never make it to an evening meeting. You receive a themed report on what they said, and a clear record that you engaged them the way your policy sets out.
The return
The reach of an engagement team and a solid participation record, without adding headcount, for less than the cost of a single facilitated process. Candidly AI is self-hosted on sovereign infrastructure, SOC 2 Type II Audited and ISO 27001 Certified, with documentation that supports your privacy impact assessment.
A public participation policy is a commitment to your residents. Candidly AI helps you keep it, and show that you did.
Education
Understand your students before the first class, and again after the last.
Who it is for
Professors and program directors of tuition-bearing courses and programs who own the student experience.
The problem
Course evaluations arrive after the course ends, when there is nothing left to adjust, and often only half the class responds. By the time a professor learns what students were hoping for, the chance to give it to them has passed.
How Candidly AI works here
A start-and-end pair. Before the term, incoming students call a line and share what they want from the course, what they already know, and what they are unsure about, so the professor can shape the class around the students in front of them. At the end of the term, a second agent gathers candid feedback on the course and the instructor in the students' own words, with the depth a rating scale cannot capture. Picture it running for a course like an applied AI ethics seminar.
The return
Deeper feedback that also serves as program-review and accreditation evidence, with little staff effort, plus a pre-course intake that evaluations do not provide. A stronger student experience supports enrolment and reputation. Student data stays on sovereign infrastructure, with anonymized reporting and no third-party model API calls.
Evaluations look back at a course that is already over. Candidly AI helps you understand students while the term is still ahead of you.
Business Development
Reconnect with the clients you have already won.
Who it is for
Services firms with a roster of past clients they would happily work with again, from boutique consultancies to professional services.
The problem
The warmest pipeline a firm has is the clients it has already served, and it tends to go quiet. There is rarely time to reach back out, ask how things are going, and listen for the work you could help with now. So those opportunities sit there, unnoticed.
How Candidly AI works here
Run an AI current-state assessment with former clients. They call in and talk about where things stand now, what is working, and where they are stuck. You hear directly from the people closest to the problems, and you surface the work you are well placed to take on. Your leadership gets a clear read on where to re-engage, built from what the clients said themselves.
The return
This is the easiest value to put a number on. One reactivated client at a typical services deal size covers the engagement several times over, and you are spending the effort on the warmest relationships you have.
Your best next client may be one you have already served. Candidly AI helps you find the opening again.
Employee Engagement
Let your people raise what a survey never thought to ask.
Who it is for
People and HR leaders at organizations where the annual survey has stopped surfacing anything they can act on. Picture an enterprise with over 5,000 people.
The problem
Engagement surveys set the options in advance. A question like "which of these issues is most painful?" assumes the real issue is already on the list, and often it is not. The thing quietly driving people out goes unmeasured, and leaders end up acting on a ranking of the wrong problems.
How Candidly AI works here
Employees call an anonymous line and talk, in their own words, about what is working and what is not. There is no menu and no forced ranking, so the issue nobody thought to ask about is free to come up, and you hear it.
The return
Lower regretted attrition, and a clear set of actions rather than another dashboard. A single avoided departure on a key team can cover an engagement. Sensitive employee data stays on a self-hosted, sovereign stack, with anonymized reporting and no third-party model API calls.
A survey hears the answers it offered. Candidly AI hears what your people most want to say.
Consulting
Hear every stakeholder, not just the fifteen you could schedule.
Who it is for
Consulting firms, advisors, and innovation bodies who run discovery for a living and dread the stakeholder-interview grind. A strong fit for organizations that assess many sites, like a health-innovation network hearing from hospitals across the country.
The problem
A traditional discovery phase hears from the five to fifteen stakeholders the team can schedule and consolidate by hand. Senior hours go to scheduling and note-taking. A sample is harder to defend than the whole population, and clients increasingly expect AI in delivery.
How Candidly AI works here
Point the consultation at one engagement's discovery phase. Every stakeholder calls in on their own time and talks through their current-state challenges, what works, and what good would look like. You receive a polished, themed report you present to your client as your own deliverable, and your people spend their hours on analysis instead of transcription.
The return
Ten times the stakeholder coverage at the same or fewer consultant hours, redirected to higher-value work, never at the cost of billable time. Hearing from everyone rather than a sample also strengthens proposals. Self-hosted, sovereign stack, SOC 2 Type II Audited and ISO 27001 Certified, client data stays in the deployment region.
Today your reach is limited to the stakeholders you can schedule. Candidly AI lifts that limit, and gives your team back the hours.
And every week we find a new one.
These are the focus areas we run today. They are not the limit. Wherever a decision depends on hearing people at a scale that interviews cannot reach, Candidly AI fits. We have watched clients point it at places we never planned for, and that list keeps growing.
If you think it could work for your organization, it probably can. Let us connect and find out.