konsens

What konsens does

konsens is a free, web-based group decision-making tool designed to help groups reach consensus through a structured three-phase process: posting a question, collecting proposals, and rating proposals using resistance points on a 0-10 scale. The platform serves three primary user segments — organisations seeking to involve employees in company-wide decisions, political institutions and communities looking to unlock collective creativity, and consumer use cases among family and friends for event planning, gift selection, and shared activities. The product is available globally with no signup or account creation required; participants join individual decisions via unique shared URLs.

The platform is built on a lightweight SaaS architecture hosted on Cloudflare Pages for static content and Hetzner for database and API infrastructure in Falkenstein, Germany. Its proprietary resistance-based voting methodology aggregates group resistance by summing resistance points across participants and dividing by the number of raters, surfacing the proposal with the lowest group resistance rather than the highest approval. A distinguishing architectural feature is automatic 42-day data deletion, in which all decision data (questions, proposals, names, ratings) is permanently purged at 0:00 UTC daily after 42 days, supporting GDPR compliance by design. The product supports German, English, and Spanish language interfaces.

konsens operates as a sole proprietorship under Maximilian Hoffmann, with its legal address in Fellbach, Germany, and is bootstrapped by two co-founders — Martha Eierdanz (designer) and Maximilian Hoffmann (software engineer). The business model is freemium with no paid tier currently in place; revenue is limited to voluntary PayPal contributions from users who choose to support the platform. The go-to-market motion is entirely product-led and self-serve, relying on link-based viral sharing and word-of-mouth rather than paid marketing or sales outreach. No external funding, institutional investors, or acquisition activity has been disclosed in the available source material.

Name

konsens

Legal name

Maximilian Hoffmann

Website

https://konsens.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

konsens is a free, web-based group decision-making tool that helps organisations, political institutions, and consumer groups reach consensus through a three-phase question, proposal, and rating workflow using resistance-based voting. Operated by two founders in Germany with no external funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Fellbach

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Freemium / Voluntary contributions: Free tool available to all users. Revenue generated through voluntary PayPal payments from users who wish to support the platform financially. No obligation to pay; no commercial data use or selling of user data.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

konsens is a free, browser-based group decision-making tool that helps groups converge on a choice through a three-phase process: one member posts a question, all invited participants submit proposals, and then everyone rates each proposal with resistance points (0–10). The system calculates the average resistance per proposal to identify the best option, supports fully asynchronous participation, and automatically deletes all decision data 42 days after creation. The product requires no signup, no email, and no account; participants join via a unique shared URL.

Product overview

konsens is a free, standalone online group decision-making tool designed to help groups find consensus through a structured three-phase process. The core offering consists of the konsens platform (accessible at konsens.it) and its dedicated entry point for new decisions at lets.konsens.it. The product requires no signup — participants join via a shared link — and automatically purges all decision data 42 days after creation. konsens has no paid tiers, add-on modules, or separate product lines; it is a single unified tool built and operated by its founders Martha and Max in Germany.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• konsens Free, browser-based group decision-making tool that helps groups pick the best solution through a three-phase process: posting a question, gathering proposals, and rating proposals with resistance points (0–10). The system surfaces the lowest-resistance (best) proposal and automatically deletes all decision data 42 days after creation. No signup is required; participants join via a unique shared URL.

Quantifiable outcome

• Automated data deletion after 42 days ensures no long-term data retention

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered infrastructure.

• Cloudflare PagesinfrastructureTechnology or IntegrationCloudflare Pages is used for hosting static content and files for the konsens website including all subdomains.
• HetznerinfrastructureTechnology or IntegrationHetzner provides hosting services for the konsens database and API in Germany (Falkenstein region).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Slido: Audience interaction and Q&A/polling platform widely deployed in meetings and events; established incumbent overlapping with konsens's core voting/rating use case, primarily in B2B meeting contexts.
• Typeform: Widely adopted form builder that includes polls, surveys, and quizzes with conditional logic and rich integration; can replicate konsens's question/proposal collection flows within a larger, paid-oriented platform.
• Poll Everywhere: Long-standing polling and audience response system with a freemium model and education/enterprise focus; comparable rating-based voting mechanic with deeper commercial infrastructure.
• Mentimeter: Well-known presentation and audience-response tool with voting, polling, and rating features; operates at much larger scale with freemium/enterprise tiers, directly adjacent to konsens's proposal rating functionality.

Emerging players

• Nolt: Feedback and voting board tool used by product and HR teams to surface ideas and decide democratically; comparable group-decision workflow with persistent data and paid tiers—a clear emerging alternative.
• Tally: Minimalist free form builder with strong product-led adoption; shares konsens's free-and-easy onboarding posture and is already integrated (via Tally for feedback) on the konsens site, indicating functional overlap.
• Range: Async-first team coordination and check-in tool that includes lightweight decision/polling workflows; targets organisations with collaborative culture—overlapping with konsens's primary 'organisations' customer segment.
• Doodle: Group scheduling and polling tool that solves a different specific problem (finding common meeting times) but follows the same 'no account required, link-based group decision' playbook konsens uses.

Direct peers

• Decidim: Open-source participatory democracy platform used by municipalities and associations for proposals, voting, and decision processes; directly comparable in the political/community institutions segment konsens targets.
• Loomio: Open-source cooperative decision-making platform used by organisations and groups to surface proposals and reach consensus through structured processes—closest direct functional comparable to konsens's group decision workflow.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/getkonsens

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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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