The meeting ends.
The decisions don't.
Public comment period. Attendance: 3 residents.
Zoning vote, March 2023. Public comment: 7 minutes.
Every week, in thousands of city halls across the country, a gavel falls. Public comment closes. The room empties. And the people who couldn't make the 6 p.m. Tuesday meeting — the nurse finishing a double shift, the parent at a school play, the small business owner managing a rush — are simply absent from the record.
“What if the meeting never had to end?”
Decisions about your street, your children's school, the vacant lot on the corner — they move forward with or without you. Not because officials are indifferent. Because the infrastructure of participation was designed in an era before the internet, and it hasn't been rebuilt since.
Forum is that rebuild. A persistent digital space where the conversation between residents and their representatives continues — not just on meeting night, but every day the city is making choices.
73%
of residents never attend a public meeting
6 min
average public comment time per resident
2.3×
more likely to act on issues they can engage online
A civic journal
that stays open.
47
avg. resident contributions per active thread
Forum creates a dedicated civic channel for your city or district — structured around the issues that actually appear on your agenda. Zoning proposals, school board budgets, park redesigns. Each thread is tied to a real decision, with a real deadline, and a real official who reads it.
Not a comment section. A civic record.
The people already
trying to show up.
Margaret Holloway
Retired school principal, 34 years in public education
Evanston, IL
"I attended every school board meeting for a decade. Forum let me bring twelve parents who couldn't come — and the board actually read what they wrote before the budget vote."
Rafael Domínguez
First-generation homeowner, navigating permit process
Tucson, AZ
"The permit language was impossible. Forum had a thread where a city planner answered questions in plain English. I finally understood what I needed to do."
Diane Park
Owner, Elm Street Bakery — 11 years in the neighborhood
Burlington, VT
"The rezoning would have changed everything for my block. I found out through Forum three weeks before the vote. Three weeks I would have missed completely."
Early pilot results, 2025
4
pilot municipalities, 2025
2,847
resident contributions logged
100%
of officials read all submissions
89%
resident satisfaction with response quality
“Forum made me feel like a founding member of something overdue — not an early adopter of something untested.”
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