We build the tools that let residents sit in the decision-maker's seat.
Weigh In is a public benefit corporation. We exist because the hardest public decisions, the ones with real tradeoffs attached, are the ones where ordinary consultation helps least.
The problem we set out to solve.
Most public input arrives as opinion without consequence. Ask residents whether they want better roads, more parks, or shorter emergency response times and the answer is always yes. That tells a decision-maker nothing they did not already know, and it leaves them exposed: the input cannot be defended, because it was never constrained.
Our answer is to hand people the same problem the decision-maker has. A fixed total. Real line items. Real consequences for every move. What comes back is not a preference, it is a decision, and a decision can be defended in public.
Our people.
Chris Adams
Founder, Weigh InA national leader in citizen engagement, public policy, and facilitation. Chris created Balancing Act, the award-winning budget simulation platform, and previously founded the public engagement strategy firm Engaged Public. Earlier he was Director of The Center for Ethics and Social Policy in Berkeley, California.
He has published more than 100 essays in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Governing, The Christian Science Monitor, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and has spoken five times at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado on the theme "Values and Ethics in a Fragile World." He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Colorado.
Harry Cosslett
Co-founder, Head of ProductHarry leads product at Weigh In, working across product strategy, design, development, and client delivery. He is also the founder of Budget Bird, an interactive public-finance education platform used in New Zealand schools, and serves on the committee of Trust Democracy, a New Zealand organisation working to strengthen democratic participation and innovation.
Before joining Weigh In, Harry worked in strategic finance for the New Zealand Government, focused on financial analysis, planning, and decision support.
Talk to us about your next hard decision.
We will walk you through the methodology, discuss whether deliberation fits, and sketch what a deployment would look like.
Request a demoor reach us at hello@weigh.in