Otter Intelligence

We believe public consultations and policymaking should be fun, participatory and inclusive.

Transforming Consultations through Play

We offer a portfolio of gamified tools to conduct public and stakeholder consultations at different stages of your project development, from early exploratory consultation stages to consensus building around specific developments.

About the project
Participatory workshop or game session

Why this approach

Policymaking is complex and fraught with challenges, one of which is sufficiently consulting the public. We have all been in a townhall meeting, where the conversation has had a high degree of negative sentiment, forming a poor basis for constructive input. Games can change that.

Games have the power to engage players and hold their attention long enough to understand complexity in a system. They also equalise the participants and create an environment where everyone can be heard, leading to more balanced views. The outcomes are more representative of everyone and not just the most vocal minority.

The underlying methodology in our solutions has been tried and tested in the real environment.

AI analysis

Gameplay sessions will generate rich discussions, which can be recorded and transcribed. Our analytics solution will summarise large volumes of qualitative data for you. With the complementary chatbot functionality, you will be able to further interrogate the data and ask more specific questions and queries.

Analyse Games
Otter Intelligence AI chat and analysis interface

Design your own game!

Our integrated deck-builder allows you to easily design a version of the game for your own context. All you need to do is fill in a spreadsheet with the contents of each card and import the text into the builder. The printouts of game components are ready for you to download.

Choose a subscription game
Physical Otter game components