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Transform Public Input Into Actionable Policy Insights

Sensemaking is a suite of AI tools designed to help policymakers gather and understand public opinion at scale – quickly. By combining the power of AI interviewing and automated report generation features, we bridge the gap between individual voices and actionable policy insights.

Are you a policymaker or public official interested in using Sensemaking AI?

Why Use Sensemaking AI?

  • Gain Clarity

    Surface insights from millions of words in minutes, not months.

  • Build Trust

    Foster civic goodwill by giving everyone a voice and making leaders feel more accessible.

  • Reflect Your Community

    94% of participants in our pilots felt their opinions were accurately represented, compared to just 47% in traditional surveys.

How it Works

  • Dig Deeper

    Help participants explore the “why” behind their thoughts and opinions with adaptive interviewing – personalized, AI-generated follow up questions.

  • Extract Key Themes

    Quickly categorize open-ended input into topics and opinions that capture the nuance of the conversation, then translate the major themes into easy-to-read summaries.

  • Uncover Hidden Consensus

    Generate novel statements and identify those likely to receive broad agreement based on participants’ prior input.

  • Surface Panoramic Insights

    Enrich citizen input and community conversation with real-time civic intelligence, synthesizing local public data, peer-city inspiration, and deep research to validate problem scope, feasibility, and actionable solutions.

Bowling Green’s 25-Year-Plan

Local leaders in Bowling Green, Kentucky, founded BG2050, an initiative to plan for the next 25 years of growth, and used Jigsaw’s Sensemaking to shape it.

Warren County’s government launched a month-long online conversation, What Could BG Be, open to all residents to hear what they really want and need for the future of their community. Our Sensemaking AI enabled local leaders to summarize, analyze and distill input from 8,000 participants. They shared over 4,000 proposals and 1+ million opinions, on things like riverfront development, which are already informing plans for the future.

This process is already informing Bowling Green’s riverfront development, The process also encouraged stronger confidence in leadership: 83% of participants believed that this will lead to a better plan for the future, and 96% of local leaders felt better equipped to represent their community.

Doug Gorman, Judge Executive, Warren County

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America’s 250th

In 2025, Jigsaw partnered with The Napolitan Institute to launch a nationally representative conversation, We The People, with 2,400+ Americans from every one of the 435 congressional districts, to weigh in on freedom and equality in America today. Sensemaking AI was used to explore Americans’ ideas more deeply, see and respond to their fellow participants and agree or disagree on statements that were likely to have broad support.

Over 1.6 million words were shared, and 26 summary statements generated - most of which had over 80% agreement from everyone who participated, and 94% of Americans felt that their opinion was represented here.

Oklahoma’s American Dream

Using Jigsaw's Sensemaking AI, and in partnership with Governor Stitt, Oklahoma launched a first of its kind state-wide survey with a representative group of 1,000 Oklahoma residents. Our AI follow-up questions helped residents unpack their thoughts about some of the state's most important topics, like, what future they envisioned for their families, and what support they’d need to be successful.

Some results from the conversation:

  • 91% of participants felt that our AI-generated questions helped them to explore their ideas further
  • 73% said state leaders felt more accessible
Governor Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma

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Our Partner Program

While our Sensemaking AI code is free and open source, we know that local governments and civic organizations don’t always have the time, technical tools, or participant panels needed to run large-scale AI consultations on their own.

Through our new Jigsaw Partner Program (JPP), we connect public leaders with trusted civic technology platforms and philanthropic grant funding.

Our platform partners handle the entire process from start to finish, so leaders can focus on using the insights:

  • Participant Recruitment: They recruit balanced, representative panels or run broad public outreach to ensure all community voices are heard.
  • Custom Engagement Design: They help design questions tailored to your specific policy decisions, such as budgeting, housing, or long-term planning.
  • Built-in Sensemaking AI: They run the conversation using Jigsaw’s AI features, including personalized AI follow-up questions, automated theme extraction, uncovering hidden consensus and surfacing key insights.
  • Moderation and Privacy: They ensure secure, private data handling and filter out bad actors, spam, and toxic comments.
  • Actionable Reports: They deliver clear, interactive summaries and briefings that are ready to share with councils and the public.

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Bring Sensemaking AI to Your Community

Are you a policymaker or public official interested in using Sensemaking AI through our Partner Program?