Anonymous while you decide. Signed when you're done.
collAnon is a consultation with a deadline for boards, committees and councils. Every member writes their view and rates the others without a name on it, the president included. When the deadline passes, the record opens: every name on every answer, the participant list and the tallies, to everyone who took part. Candour first, accountability after.
Three meetings you have already sat through.
The president speaks first, and the room agrees.
Once the chair has said what they think, the rest of the board is answering that opinion instead of giving their own. A consultation that opens without names lets each member write what they actually believe, before anyone has set the tone.
The group chat has already decided.
The renewal of the contract, the change to the statute, the member who keeps breaking the rules. By the time the meeting starts, the first two messages in the chat have become the position. collAnon takes the question out of the chat and gives it a closing date.
The vote passes because nobody objected out loud.
A silent room is not a consensus. Ask the board to write before it votes, unsigned, and read the archive together when the deadline opens it. What people would not say across the table, they will write.
How a consultation runs.
One deadline. Sealed until it passes, signed after.
Write the question and set the deadline.
A title, a body in Markdown, an attachment if the budget or the draft is needed. The consultation is live the moment you create it; you choose the date and time it closes, and you can move that later.
Only you can change the consultation. It can be deleted only while it has no answers.
Invite the board.
Search usernames, or add a saved group in one go: the whole board, the finance committee, the working group. Share the invitation link, the QR code or the 64-character code. Members who are new create an account from the link with a username and a password, no email required, and land in the consultation. Add a password if the room should be gated.
Everyone writes and rates, unsigned.
Each member posts an answer and comments on the others. Nobody sees who wrote what, only how many people are in. Everyone rates every answer that is not theirs, from −3 to +3, and sees only their own vote. Your answer stays editable until someone comments on it.
The deadline opens the record.
Within about a minute of the closing time, the consultation is archived and becomes read-only. The archive shows who opened it, who wrote each answer and comment, who took part, and the tally behind every answer. Any participant can download it as a file and keep it with the minutes.
Who sees what, and when.
The exact boundary, as the app enforces it.
While the consultation runs.
Answers and comments carry no name for anyone, the organiser included, and the organiser's own posts are unsigned too. Everybody sees how many members are in. Everybody rates the answers of others and sees only their own vote.
The organiser, while it runs.
Sees the list of usernames invited, because the organiser wrote it. Can edit the title, the body, the deadline, the invitations, the groups, the files and the password at any time. Cannot see who wrote what, and cannot touch anybody else's posts.
After the deadline.
The archive shows the organiser's username, the author of every answer and comment, the participants, and per answer the seven vote counts with an approval and a disapproval percentage. Everyone who took part can read it and download it as a file, names included.
Three things to know before the first consultation.
A consultation before the vote, not the vote.
collAnon does not replace the assembly, the ballot or the minutes your statute requires. It is the round that happens before them, so that the vote is taken on what people think rather than on who spoke first. The archive is a record you can attach; it is not a legal act.
Names come out at the end, for everyone.
This is the point of the tool and also its limit. If the people answering must never be identified, collAnon is the wrong choice. Whistleblowing, staff surveys and anonymous questions need a tool that keeps names hidden for good.
Nobody moderates.
The organiser cannot delete, edit or hide anybody else's answer or comment, and cannot see who wrote them before the end. Members can edit their own answers until someone comments, and their own comments at any time.
Free to start. One plan for the board.
Every account starts free with the same allowance. The Board plan is for the organiser who runs consultations all year; members never pay anything, on either tier.
Free
For the occasional question to the board.
Free
- 2 consultations a month
- 1 attachment per consultation, up to 512 KB
- 3 saved groups
- As many members per consultation as you invite
- The archive with every name, downloadable as JSON
- Consultations a month
- 2
- Attachments per consultation
- 1
- Attachment size
- 512 KB
- Saved groups
- 3
Board
For the organiser who runs the board all year.
€7 a month
€69 a year
- 100 consultations a month
- 3 attachments per consultation, up to 2 MB each
- 30 saved groups, one per committee
- Everything in Free
- Switched on within a minute of the payment
- Consultations a month
- 100
- Attachments per consultation
- 3
- Attachment size
- 2 MB
- Saved groups
- 30
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Who runs consultations here.
Groups with a president, a statute and a decision to take.
Association boards and councils.
The direttivo that meets monthly and decides between meetings. A consultation with a real closing date, a record with every name on it, and members who answer from their phone without an email address.
Co-ops and social enterprises.
Members' councils and working groups where the same three people always speak. Everyone writes and rates in private; the archive reads like minutes and anyone who took part keeps a copy.
Clubs, circles and sports societies.
The change to the fees, the coach to keep or replace, the tournament nobody wants to organise. One question, one deadline, and an answer from every committee member instead of the loudest two.
Committees and working groups.
Selection panels, editorial boards, parents' committees. Rate every proposal that is not yours from −3 to +3 and let the tallies show the room what it thinks before the discussion turns personal.
Questions boards ask.
Our board is eight people. Can they guess who wrote what?
Sometimes, from the style, and that is fine: anonymity in collAnon is a delay everyone has agreed to, not a secret. Every member knows the names open at the deadline. The point is that nobody answers the president's opinion; everybody answers the question.
Can the president see who wrote what while it is open?
No. Nobody can, the organiser included. The organiser only sees the list of people they invited.
Do members need an account?
Yes, to answer. A username and a password are enough, no email, and the account is created from the invitation link itself. Reading an archive you exported needs no account at all.
Is there an alert when the consultation closes?
No. The app sends no notifications and no emails. You share the link and the date yourself, in the chat or in the convocation; new answers appear on a refresh every minute.
Is it a valid vote under our statute?
No, and it is not meant to be. It is the consultation before the vote. Take the formal vote the way your statute requires and attach the archive to the minutes if you find it useful.
What does the GDPR side look like?
Members sign up with a username and a password; an email is optional and only for password recovery. The server is operated by Arasaka in Italy. Any participant can download the archive as JSON. Deleting an account replaces the name with "Deleted user" and leaves the posts.
Which files can be attached?
Documents and images: .odt, .docx, .pdf, .xlsx, .ods, .odp, .pptx, .png, .jpg and .jpeg. One file up to 512 KB per consultation on the free tier, three files up to 2 MB each on Board.
Open a consultation before the next meeting.
Free, no card, no invitation needed. The first one takes two minutes to set up.
collAnon is part of Sintopia, a suite of small tools by Arasaka.