FlashVote

What FlashVote does

FlashVote, operated by Governance Sciences Group, Inc., is a privately held SaaS company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada. It sells an automated, patent-pending scientific survey platform to local governments — counties, cities, towns, and special districts in the United States and Canada — delivering statistically valid community input within 48 hours via email, text, and phone outreach. The platform combines expert-led question design, a survey library, anti-fraud filtering by physical address, and a built-in results dashboard with demographic cuts, positioning itself as a faster and lower-cost alternative to traditional scientific surveys that typically cost $20,000–$50,000 each.

The business model is a freemium, annual subscription structure: residents participate free of charge while government customers pay customized annual fees for unlimited or packaged survey usage, employee surveys, and ongoing methodology support. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales to government decision-makers (city managers, communications directors, PIOs), supported by case-study videos, testimonials, blog content, and a "Book a Consult" consultation offering. The company has no publicly disclosed external funding, no management-team details in the source material, and operates with a team in the 11–50 range.

Customer evidence includes named municipal users across 30+ states (e.g., Plymouth MN, Bedford TX, Rancho Cucamonga CA, Arlington TX, Stillwater OK, Georgetown TX, Watertown MA, Roseville, Sandy City UT, Placer County), with claimed aggregate outcomes of over $400 million in avoided decision-making mistakes and case studies citing a $30 million mistake dodged in Massachusetts and $10 million in budget savings in California. The company received ELGL's Top 10 Best Companies Working with Local Government recognition in 2020.

Name

FlashVote

Legal name

Governance Sciences Group, Inc.

Website

https://flashvote.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Incline Village

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Subscriptions: FlashVote charges fees to governments and other organization users (Paying Users) for various premium features and services. Access to websites and use of selected features of the Platform is free for residents and other constituent users. Governments pay for survey services that provide statistically valid community input.
2. Survey Services: FlashVote offers annual packages of scientific surveys for local governments, priced significantly lower than traditional scientific surveys ($20,000-$50,000 each). Services include survey design, data collection, automated reporting, and professional quality control.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

FlashVote provides a patent-pending scientific survey and civic engagement platform that helps local governments collect statistically valid community input within 48 hours. Governments approve professionally designed surveys; FlashVote handles multi-channel outreach (email, text, phone), data collection, anti-fraud filtering, automated reporting, and results dashboards. The service is free for residents and sold via annual subscriptions to counties, cities, towns, and special districts in the U.S. and Canada.

Product overview

FlashVote is a single, unified SaaS survey and civic engagement platform for local governments offered by Governance Sciences Group, Inc. The product provides a patent-pending scientific survey system that reaches residents by email, text, and phone; writes professionally designed questions and answer sets; automatically collects and reports results within 48 hours; and includes a simple built-in results dashboard with charts and demographic filters. FlashVote positions itself as an automated service—governments approve surveys and FlashVote handles everything after—including survey library access and quality control on every survey question. The platform is free for residents and charged to government users.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FlashVote Scientific Survey Platform A SaaS civic engagement and scientific survey platform for local governments that delivers statistically valid resident input within 48 hours. Reaches residents via email, text, and phone; provides professionally designed questions, automated data collection and reporting, anti-fraud mechanisms, and a results dashboard with demographic filtering. Free for residents; sold as an annual subscription to government customers in the U.S. and Canada.

Quantifiable outcome

• Helped customers avoid $400+ million in bad decisions
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Polco: Polco offers a civic engagement and analytics platform for local governments, providing community surveys, performance benchmarking, and resident feedback tools. It directly competes with FlashVote in the same municipal-survey buyer segment with overlapping annual subscription positioning.
• Zencity: Zencity aggregates community feedback from social media, surveys, and other channels using AI to give local governments real-time resident sentiment. It targets the same local-government buyers and is often compared alongside FlashVote in the civic-tech category.
• CitizenLab: CitizenLab is a digital participation platform used by cities and municipalities for community consultation, surveys, and ideation projects. It overlaps directly with FlashVote in serving local-government outreach use cases and is often listed alongside it in civic-tech evaluations.
• Bang the Table (EngagementHQ): Bang the Table's EngagementHQ platform provides online community engagement for local governments, including surveys, forums, and crowdsourced ideas. It targets the same government procurement category and competes for civic-engagement program budgets.
• MetroQuest: MetroQuest delivers online public engagement tools for planning and community input, widely used by US and Canadian municipalities. It overlaps with FlashVote's municipal survey and citizen input use cases, particularly for planning and infrastructure consultations.

Broad incumbents

• Qualtrics: Qualtrics is the dominant enterprise survey and experience-management platform, serving many public-sector and institutional clients with deep analytics. FlashVote competes for the same survey workloads but positions itself as faster, cheaper, and purpose-built for local-government statistically valid outreach.
• SurveyMonkey (Momentive): SurveyMonkey is a widely used self-serve survey platform used by governments alongside FlashVote. It is the incumbent low-cost alternative FlashVote contrasts itself against by emphasizing statistical rigor and professional question design rather than DIY surveys.
• Granicus: Granicus sells government-experience software including communications, meeting management, and citizen engagement to municipal, county, and state agencies. It is broader in scope than FlashVote but competes in the same digital civic-engagement procurement budgets.
• OpenGov: OpenGov provides cloud software for budgeting, performance management, and citizen engagement to state and local governments. It is a broader public-sector SaaS incumbent that local-government CIOs compare against point solutions like FlashVote.
• Typeform: Typeform is a conversational form and survey builder used by organizations including public-sector entities for engagement. While broader in audience, it competes for the same DIY survey workloads FlashVote displaces when governments seek statistically valid input.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/flashvote

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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