PublicInput, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a software company that builds community engagement platforms for government and public agencies. Its core product is the PublicInput Platform, an end-to-end system that integrates survey creation, project management, public meetings, comment capture, live streaming, and automatic transcripts into a single interface. The platform includes built-in translation, offline tools, and accessibility features designed to broaden public participation.
The company describes its platform as an operating system for public engagement, enabling governments to gather input from communities across multiple channels. Technical work spans platform development, community engagement tooling, and analytics. PublicInput's focus on equitable engagement infrastructure places it at the intersection of civic technology and software engineering, serving agencies that need to manage complex, multi-stakeholder public processes.
