Among hundreds of deployments to date, Cortico has been used to:
- create a campus-wide conversation about values and quality of life at a university [MIT]
- bridge damaging communications gaps + empower youth to be leaders in schools [Freeport, ME]
- understand the impact of COVID within traditionally underserved populations [NYC]
- amplify community conversation for policy change [Durham, NC portal]
- surface underheard voices into public mayoral election dialogue [Boston, MA]
- incorporate community voices into the selection of a new police chief [Madison, WI]
- share stories from climate-concerned communities globally [Lagos, London, New Orleans]
- engage youth in evaluating programs designed to serve them [JA Worldwide portal]
Cortico’s multidisciplinary team—with expertise in community organizing, civic tech, education, racial equity, and qualitative research—works closely with Cortico partners to bring their vision for engaging and impactful conversation campaigns with their communities to life.
Cortico’s toolkit enables Cortico partners to surface patterns across the conversations they collect, elevate typically underheard voices, inform public understanding, drive better policy, and build trust.
Core offerings for partners include:
- Access to our regularly enhanced suite of advanced digital and AI tools to support privacy-preserving data storage, speech analytics, data visualization, and content sharing.
- Capacity-building services designed to support partners and their communities to design, facilitate, and make sense of conversations. A full list of workshops can be found here.
- Professional development for teams through our project-based certificate program that is grounded in a train-the-trainer model and gives participants the skills to fully take the lead.
- Support for community partner cohorts, anchored in collaboration, engagement, individualized support, and empowerment.